Lincoln's blood and his death certificate

[Jim Garrett]

Yes indeed, Herb Collins (retired curator emeritus of the political collection said that at one time, Lincoln's blood was in the Smithsonian. I believe that Herb read this in a early annual report from maybe the turn of the century. The Smithsonian also had the boat that Booth and Herold crossed the Potomac in. No one at the Smithsonian today can say what has happened to either. The Smithsonian digitized the assention (sp) cards and the dessention (sp) cards. This process was not an exact science and the digitized cards do not have any info on those items and the original cards are in deep storage and in disarray.