Is This Abraham Lincoln?

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(07-01-2017 09:37 PM)wcvet6 Wrote:  Excerpted from Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History by Richard Wightman Fox. Copyright © 2015 by Richard Wightman Fox. With permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Co. Inc. All rights reserved.
A BODY FOR THE BODY POLITIC

Since I had already attributed that article to an excerpt from that book written by that author, is there a purpose for this post? Or, did you fail to read my post in its entirety? I don't want to miss any points in this ever-increasing (and confusing) topic.

I just have to muse that this whole thread may become worthy of a study on how one simple request for historians' opinions can become a lengthy discourse on a variety of semi-related topics that stray from the original posting and never come to a definite conclusion. It makes one very aware of the twists and turns of history where questions never get answered to everyone's satisfaction -- even when superior opinions and hard, primary source facts are thrown into the equation...

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(07-02-2017 07:08 AM)wcvet6 Wrote:  I never questioned the provenance or the authenticity of the gurney photo 4/24/1865 I questioned the fake abe in the coffin of that photo, what don't you get ?

At the risk of getting a verbal attack, Marsha, I have to ask, "What don't you get?" when you have been presented a large amount of excellent, fact-based, and primary-sourced responses to your original post as well as to subsequent avenues that this discussion has taken.

You once mentioned a legal background? Have you turned this into a sort of "lawyer's game" to see how many ways you can confuse the issue to keep us going and you entertained?

Frankly, your method frustrates me -- but, it has also been somewhat enjoyable to see where you will head next and then to do some research (combined with common sense) to see how to shortstop you! It is sort of like a game of Jeopardy, but where all the questions fall under the same category.