Is This Abraham Lincoln?

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(07-01-2017 07:35 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Marsha, I believe I have read that both Charles Brown and Frank Sands accompanied the remains of the late President on the trip back to Springfield. I have read that the remains deteriorated during the trip, and Brown and Sands were often called upon to keep it presentable for all the people viewing it in the various cities.

If it were really just a statue, why would it deteriorate?

Also, at least a million people passed by the open coffin in the cities along the route.

Are you saying a million people were fooled by a statue?

I am saying there doesn't appear to be any damage to the head in the gurney photo , he looks perfect that is impossible stiches don't heal in dead man , no slight smile per the embalmers account , the beard is wrong clean shaven except a tuft on the chin , the underside of his chin is very wide and very flat to me it looks like a bust of his life mask , which could account for the eye brows being gone in 1901, as for the discolorazation the embalmer and mortician both refuted that fact . if he was decomposing ie turning black on the funeral train how was he so intact in 1901? embalming even today only slows decay it doesn't retard it . having trama and or open wounds at death speeds up decay according to the embalmers websites ive visited.plus the coffin was at least 4 ft off the ground on a stand the room was always dark and a distance was maintained between the mourners and the coffin . the record is lacking for detail for example shaving the presidents head prior to opening the scalp for brain removal and then stiching it closed would have made sense doing that with a full head of hair would have been very messey and difficult but the record is silent on that . I mean anyone should doubt a perfect looking head after all the trama it went through .