Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation Owes Big $$$

[RJNorton]

Gene, over the years I have had a few folks write me about the museum's bloody gloves, too. Here is what was said in a couple of emails from years ago:

"It was stated that when Lincoln was shot, his blood dripped all the way down his arm and into his left pocket, where the President had placed them, folded. I really must take issue with this explanation. Lincoln's wound did not drip blood at all. All the doctors observed and wrote that it merely oozed. We have to go along with them. So how did the blood get onto his gloves? I see only one possibility. In my humble opinion, either the gloves were not Lincoln's and they weren't in his pockets; they belonged to Major Rathbone, who bled heavily from his own wound. Or, they were, indeed, Lincoln's, but they were not in his pockets and came in contact with Rathbone's dripping blood."

"I've watched other ALPLM videos, but believe this one is pretty farfetched. I've researched for some time regarding whether Lincoln's death clothing had been tested for blood, and have never found any suggestion that it has. I've never learned of any statements that any blood stains were even seen on his clothing. Looking at the gloves superficially from the video (and from other images of them I've found) the museum's theory sounds like wishful thinking."

Here is a link to the museum's video on the gloves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSdANJr1oDU