Lincoln's embalmment

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(05-05-2013 02:54 PM)Rhatkinson Wrote:  One of the erriest aspects of Lincoln's embalming to me has always been that it was performed in the room where the current first families eat their meals (the former Prince of Wales room is now the family dining room!)

Willie Lincoln also died in this same room.

http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/floor2/p...g-room.htm

I thought it was just me..I shudder every time I imagine presidential family members and their guests, tucking into their steaks cooked rare in the same room in which Abraham Lincoln was autopsied!

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(01-04-2015 04:02 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Toia, I think Dr. Sotos was able to obtain a blood sample from a small fragment of the dress allegedly worn by Laura Keene. This piece is privately held, and I do not know the provenance. This testing was included in a National Geographic Channel special titled Lincoln's Secret Killer. Personally, even if the dress fragment is legitimate, I don't know how they would know it's Lincoln's blood and not Rathbone's.

Hi Roger, I saw that episode on NatGeo and I was fascinated by it. However I am not convinced the blood sample even belonged to AL. I have always believed it was Rathbone's. He bled profusely that night all over the State Box and in the foyer of the Peterson House. In the initial minutes after the shooting, first hand accounts say that the president did not bleed much at all.