In April 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Washington D.C. The body of the fallen President endured a series of morbid misadventures before being finally laid to rest in 1901. This is the true story of Lincoln's body.
Sources:
- My Daguerreotype Boyfriend, Lewis Powell
- Wok & Roll Restaurant (Mary Surratt's Boarding House)
- National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM): Medical Care During President Lincoln's Final Hours Commemorated in New Exhibit
- Mütter Minute: John Wilkes Booth (Mütter Museum)
- The Lost Lincoln Photo Documentary - Discovery Plus
- The Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln - Chicago History Museum
- Lincoln Rocker - Curating & Preserving - The Henry Ford Museum
- Ford's Theatre
- Lincoln Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
- Lincoln's Tomb Virtual Tour
- Lincoln’s corpse and its grand yet ghoulish odyssey - Washington Post
- When You Die, You’ll Probably Be Embalmed. Thank Abraham Lincoln For That - Smithsonian Mag
- The Ballad of Booth (from "Assassins") - Patrick Cassidy & Victor Garber
- This Dust Was Once The Man - Walt Whitman
- Abraham Lincoln's Long Goodbye - CBS Sunday Morning
- The Lincoln Catafalque | Architect of the Capitol
- Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln (2012) Excerpt
- Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) excerpt
- Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History - Richard Wightman Fox
- New DNA study on Melungeons Attempts to Separate Truth from Fiction - Newsleader.com
- Abraham Lincoln's Marfanoid Mother: Clinical Dysmorphology
- Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel - George Saunders
- Stealing Lincoln's Body - Thomas J. Craughwell
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killer - James L. Swanson
- Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay
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Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod
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