Lincoln's embalmment

[LincolnToddFan]

FASCINATING info and comments from everyone! Thanks especially to Roger for providing a clip link to the famous gloves. They appear rather small for AL's enormous mitts but they have certainly shrunk 150 years on.

My question is for Houmes. I read once that head/brain trauma injuries are notorious bleeders. And I distinctly remember being traumatized as a child after seeing photos of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dying on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel. He had what looked like a huge pool of blood under his head after being shot behind the ear(mastoid bone). This sounds very similar to AL's injury.

I wonder why RFK bled profusely at once and AL formed a clot and did not?