Is This Abraham Lincoln?

[L Verge]

"JOHN NICOLAY declined to use it in his 10 volume Lincoln a life.hmmm"

Just a point of clarification for budding historians who might read this: John Nicolay didn't choose to include the NYC photo of Lincoln in his coffin because Nicolay died in 1901, and the photo was not discovered by Dr. Rietveld until the early-1950s...

Also, mention has been made a number of times about the gentleman in this controversial photo having his eyes sewn shut. I have enlarged the photo several times, and this man's eyes are wide open, albeit somewhat sunken from age. Likewise, his hand is jut barely touching the back of the chair, and there is no indication that it is "nailed" to the chair.

I doubt that any embalmer of that day would so desecrate the dead body of Mr. Lincoln; and as I reiterated in a previous post, Lincoln's body did not leave the White House until after the formal viewing there. What photographer in his right mind, what embalmer for that matter, and what White House staff member or Lincoln adviser would have the courage to play such games with the body of the President? Mrs. Lincoln, Edwin Stanton, Nicolay and Hay, and numerous others would have had anyone involved tarred and feathered!

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Just found this while searching for something else related to the autopsy: http://www.shapell.org/manuscript/Eyewit...Liebermann

Some of you may be familiar with this account as well as the Shapell Manuscript Collection. I had never heard of either until five minutes ago. There are a variety of clips about other related Lincoln items in the collection.

PS: I also saw one account where Dr. Brown, the embalmer, was present at the autopsy so that he could immediately begin his procedures once the doctors were finished.