Lincoln's Body

In April 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Washington D.C. The body of the fallen President endured a series of morbid misadventures before being finally laid to rest in 1901. This is the true story of Lincoln's body. Sources: My Daguerreotype Boyfriend, Lewis Powell Wok & Roll Restaurant (Mary Surratt's Boarding House) National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM): Medical Care During President Lincoln's Final Hours Commemorated in New Exhibit Mütter Minute: John Wilkes Booth (Mütter Museum) The Lost Lincoln Photo Documentary - Discovery Plus The Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln - Chicago History Museum Lincoln Rocker - Curating & Preserving - The Henry Ford Museum Ford's Theatre Lincoln Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Lincoln's Tomb Virtual Tour Lincoln’s corpse and its grand yet ghoulish odyssey - Washington Post When You Die, You’ll Probably Be Embalmed. Thank Abraham Lincoln For That - Smithsonian Mag The Ballad of Booth (from "Assassins") - Patrick Cassidy & Victor Garber This Dust Was Once The Man - Walt Whitman Abraham Lincoln's Long Goodbye - CBS Sunday Morning The Lincoln Catafalque | Architect of the Capitol Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln (2012) Excerpt Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) excerpt Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History - Richard Wightman Fox New DNA study on Melungeons Attempts to Separate Truth from Fiction - Newsleader.com Abraham Lincoln's Marfanoid Mother: Clinical Dysmorphology Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel - George Saunders Stealing Lincoln's Body - Thomas J. Craughwell Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killer - James L. Swanson Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay Follow us on IG: @themorbidmuseum Email us at themorbidmuseum@gmail.com Artwork: Brittany Schall Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod 2022 All Rights Reserved