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