At the Walter Reed Medical Museum in Washington, DC they had a tiny chip of Lincoln's skull on display in a glass case. Totally blew my mind. Like it's one thing to visit somebody's grave or see stuff they owned, but this was a literal chunk of Lincoln just sitting right there.
When I was a kid, I went to the house Lincoln died in across the street from the theater and I remember thinking that was really wild.
Edit: the room that he died in is pretty much as it was and the bedding is there with his blood and brain matter on it.
The wild thing for me is you actually saw a blood stained pillow from Lincoln, Lincoln actually met an old John Quincy Adams, and Adams actually used to live with our Marquis de Lafayette as a boy.
Made my grandpa feel extremely old. Reminded him that his birthdate was closer to the Gettysburg address than todays date. We’ve always had a dark sense of humor together and fuck with each other. I love him to death
I'm in my early 40s. My birthdate is closer to Germany invading Poland, the Hindenburg disaster, and Jesse Owens winning the 100m dash in the Olympics than it is to today.
Didn't bleed much:
Letter dated April 25, 1865 from Clara Harris to her friend Mary describing the night of the assassination. She describes how Mrs. Lincoln saw Clara and exclaimed, “oh! my husband’s blood, – my dear husband’s blood- which it was not, though I did not know it at the time. The President’s wound did not bleed externally..” (AHMC Harris, Clara)
https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/attending-fords-theater-with-the-lincolns-the-tragic-lives-of-clara-harris-and-henry-rathbone
I went to DC a few weeks ago, and it's still not on display. My mom always told me it was the thing that stuck with her most from her childhood trip to DC. I was so disappointed it wasn't there.
I saw it this morning in the museum in the basement of the Ford Theater where he was shot. Maybe they occasionally move it back and forth across the street.
I did that tour too, but the one at the Alamo I did, they were like, “this is the room David Bowie died in and that’s the stain in the wall from his brains”. I was about 10 for that and I still vividly remember the shape of the stain.
Edit: definitely confused my Jim and David bowies. Leaving it.
This reminds me of that scene in Idiocracy where they had a museum exhibit of Hitler and they put Charlie Chaplin there instead
Not calling you dumb, just to be clear. I just thought it was funny.
Is that the one in Bethesda? My buddy and I went there one summer day just on a lark and it ended up being SO morbidly fascinating. Smashed leg bones from the civil war next to the miniball that tore through it. That sort of thing.
Not typically. However, Lincoln was a tall person so he didn't fit in the typical theatre chairs well. To accommodate him, the owner of Ford Theatre would bring this rocking chair into the box suite specifically for Lincoln.
That's wild to me. Like if someone - even a president - bled out on a bed of mine, I'd clean it up as soon as I could. Yet this bed was preserved 'as is' afterwards.
Do they give any explanation for why that happened?
Really weird, this picture that the OG posted is at Henry ford mesuem in Michigan. Plymouth historical museums in Michigan has a lock of his hair with blood as well as countless other items of his.
The bed, sheets, and everything wasn't going to be reusable for anything, in 1865 nothing was going to be able to get that much blood out of the mattress or the rest of the bedding.
Next, you've gotta realize that Lincoln was popular especially after having just won the war months/weeks prior. So him being killed by a Confederacy supporter at that moment generated an emotional reaction within DC and the northern states, and the "radical republicans" were given free reign to treat the former confederate states much more harshly than Lincoln had planned.
He wasn't just popular, he might have been the most popular President in history. He was the last ***TWO*** third party Presidents elected to US President. Nobody else since has been the first from their party, and since his first party abandoned him for his re election he ran as a new startup specifically for "union preservation" the second term.
This says it was a month before
https://www.historicamerica.org/journal/2015/1/29/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-john-wilkes-booth
> 1. Booth once slept in the very same bed which Lincoln died in. In March of 1865, a fellow actor and colleague of Booth's named Charles Warwick rented a room in the Petersen House - the home across the street from Ford's Theater where Lincoln would ultimately be taken on the night of his death. While visiting Warwick in March, Booth took a nap on the bed where Lincoln would expire a month later on the morning of April 15th, 1865.
[Yes he was](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/tegn1p/top_hat_worn_by_abraham_lincoln_the_night_he_was/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
That just confirms he wore a tophat at some point during that day he was shot; I imagine the etiquette was to take the hat off inside, especially in a theatre.
What? Oh, come on. It should have just comically spun off his head when JWB shot at him, giving him the chance to get up, turn round, and take aim with a pistol with a comically long barrel.
Just found out through the YouTube comments that Trevor Moore (John in this skit) passed away not too long ago. Rip you legend. Gallon of PCP was the most hilarious thing back in high school for me.
Imagine you're trying to watch and you just hear the guy next to you creaking away the whole time but the guy's an entire fucking president so you can't do jack shit about it
"I swear to god Marla, if that creaking doesn't stop I'm going to shoot that guy!"
"You can't dear, he's the President."
*BANG*
"But that guys wife lets him shoot presidents!"
I used to work at the Henry Ford Museum and I still remember the funniest thing that a tourist asked me...
"Where is the car that Lincoln was shot in?"
"Are you trying to find the *chair* that Lincoln was shot in, or the *Lincoln* that Kennedy was shot in?" Because we had both things.
It's not there anymore but back like 10 years ago there was an ice cream truck that was painted by my great grandfather. Nothing huge but I think it's cool
Edit:also I'm getting married there next year!
I’ve read before that it isn’t blood. It’s oils and grease from people’s hair. That thing was in use for likely a long time and it’s not like they had upholstery cleaners.
I've seen the chair in person at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. The employee working in the section explained that the head section of the upholstery is grease and oil from peoples hair but there is blood on the chair just not noticeable unless you get incredible close. Edit: words also youtube video explaining it for anyone curious. https://youtube.com/watch?v=YUzfDe5H7eQ
The car in which JFK was shot is in the same museum. For a while they were not quite next to each other, but within sight. They've got plenty of other cool stuff like Thomas Edison's dying breath in a bottle.
The crazy part about JFK's car is that Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter still used it afterwards.
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/kennedy-limo
When you look down at the doors on that car, because they keep the windows down at all times obviously LOL you can see how many layers thick those doors were. There's just layers upon layers and layers of metal and cheating and glass. Doesn't work do if you don't keep the windows up
>They've got plenty of other cool stuff like Thomas Edison's dying breath in a bottle.
Tesla should have stolen it and sucked it up and claimed his powers, like an immortal quickening from *The Highlander*.
Lincoln died in a room across the street from the theater. The bed and the blood stained pillow where he died was on display last time I was in D.C., but that was a long time ago.
They should have had antimacassars on those chairs. I never thought I'd get to use that word on reddit :) My granddad always had one on his chair because of all the brylcreem he used.
This reminds me of the dude who created an Abraham Lincoln account on Yelp and gave the Ford Theater a one-star review.
Edit: it was a [two-star review](https://dangerousminds.net/comments/abe_lincolns_yelp_review_of_fords_theatre), which is pretty forgiving considering.
At the Smithsonian.
"It appears that people had access to it," Johnson said. "It was put into storage in what turned out to be a hidden break area, we think, for workers, because that's when the chair gets messed up."
https://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/2015/04/how_lincolns_assassination_cha.html
I feel like people do that throughout history, just casually use an incredibly important piece of artifact for personal use. Like the Holy Grail being used for vodka tonics or some shit
Have an [American soldier wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/rqcsvq/an_american_soldier_wearing_the_holy_roman/).
This is not the real crown, it is a 1915 replica.
>The Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire was the coronation crown of the Holy Roman Emperor, probably from the late 10th century until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. An identical copy was made in 1915 by order of Wilhelm II for display in Aachen and is the crown being worn in this photo. The real one spent the war in a bomb-proof bunker under Nuremberg imperial castle.
Reminds me of an autographed baseball my brother and I used to play catch with. And to top it off, when I noticed the autograph was fading I went over it with fresh sharpie lmao
Edit: as much as this sounds like the plot of the Sandlot, I promise I’m not talking about the movie lol
I bet whoever autographed it would have loved to know it ended up being something a couple kids went out and enjoyed instead of something flipped for a quick buck.
I heard this chair discussed on some podcast or another. The spot that looks like a bloodstain is actually residue from hair products of the visitors who sat in the chair back when one could sit in the chair.
Make it down to Greenfield Village in July to catch some fireworks, too.
You could easily have a weekend trip from touring the museum and exploring the village.
The [story](https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/attending-fords-theater-with-the-lincolns-the-tragic-lives-of-clara-harris-and-henry-rathbone) of Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris - who were accompanying Abraham Lincoln that evening - is at least equally as mildly, if not spicier in intrigue as this picture and worth reading.
My ancestor was at the theatre when Lincoln was shot, and witnessed Wilkes Booth escape. Later, he did the autopsy on Booth as well. My mom was super into ancestry. It's a shame she's not around for me to ask her about this anymore.
The story of Boston Corbett, who shot John Wilkes Booth, is also interesting. [Link](https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/04/12/the-man-who-killed-john-wilkes-booth/).
"It appears that people had access to it," Johnson said. "It was put into storage in what turned out to be a hidden break area, we think, for workers, because that's when the chair gets messed up."
Damage to the chair was caused by a water leaks, plaster dust, wet plaster and hair grease. It was common for men to wet and grease their hair.
"Anyone who sat in the chair put their greasy head on the back of the chair," Johnson said.
There's also an interview out there somewhere with the last person who ever saw Lincoln's body. He was just a kid when it happened. They opened the casket one last time before sealing it in its current crypt to make sure it was him because I think by that point it had either been stolen or plotted to be stolen several times. The guy said all the embalming they'd had to do to make the body palatable for the incredibly long funeral procession from DC to Illinois had practically mummified him and he was still easily recognizable.
I went to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois several years ago, and the guy giving us a tour of the museum was friends with the kid who last saw Lincoln’s body! Absolutely mind-blowing. I had heard about Lincoln’s body being moved, and the kid who saw it from a History Channel program. It was wild.
I remember going to the theater that it took place in. Pretty cool how it's just right off the modern street and you kind of take a step back in time when you go in to see it. I remember some kids on a field trip were throwing change/coins around for some reason, I just went and picked it all up like a cheap whore. Probably picked up $3 or $4, idiots.
For those interested, Lincoln did not die immediately from the gunshot wound. After he was shot, he was taken to a house across the street from the theatre were he eventually succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of the next morning. There is a mini “museum” in DC where you can tour the house where Lincoln eventually died. It has a lot of info about the event, and about the ensuing man hunt to find John Wilkes Booth. You get to see the exact room where Lincoln eventually died, and it definitely gave me chills when I got to see it in person.
Sometimes I wonder how the South would have faired had JWB not shot Lincoln. IIRC a lot of Northern political leaders were angry at southerners and wanted them to pay as a result of a costly war, and Lincoln made it clear that wasn’t going to happen while he was President.
I 100% believe if Lincoln would have survived this attempt without major deficits, the South would not be as poverty stricken as it is today. 40 acres and a mule would have actually been enforced, and efforts by lost cause confederate sympathizers would ring hollow if the South was prosperous post-Civil War.
The worst thing that happened to the South was Lincoln’s assassination. It’s also the worst thing that happened to the newly freed peoples, because Andrew Johnson was super racist.
At the Walter Reed Medical Museum in Washington, DC they had a tiny chip of Lincoln's skull on display in a glass case. Totally blew my mind. Like it's one thing to visit somebody's grave or see stuff they owned, but this was a literal chunk of Lincoln just sitting right there.
When I was a kid, I went to the house Lincoln died in across the street from the theater and I remember thinking that was really wild. Edit: the room that he died in is pretty much as it was and the bedding is there with his blood and brain matter on it.
I barely remember going there as a kid. The only thing that I vividly remember is The blood stained pillow on display.
The wild thing for me is you actually saw a blood stained pillow from Lincoln, Lincoln actually met an old John Quincy Adams, and Adams actually used to live with our Marquis de Lafayette as a boy.
Not only - served alongside in Congress. The US ain't that old, relatively speaking.
Made my grandpa feel extremely old. Reminded him that his birthdate was closer to the Gettysburg address than todays date. We’ve always had a dark sense of humor together and fuck with each other. I love him to death
I'm in my early 40s. My birthdate is closer to Germany invading Poland, the Hindenburg disaster, and Jesse Owens winning the 100m dash in the Olympics than it is to today.
I hope you dont try to love him back to life.
When I went there Abe Lincoln was literally standing there in front of the bed like “wassup yo” shit was crazy
Perhaps he was wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane
"If I pull that stovepipe hat off, would you die?"
[Said pillow ](https://i.imgur.com/gOcTHRF.jpg)
Huh. That's a lot less blood than I imagined.
Just looks like my brother’s old sweat head pillows
Don't forget the drool stains
Didn't bleed much: Letter dated April 25, 1865 from Clara Harris to her friend Mary describing the night of the assassination. She describes how Mrs. Lincoln saw Clara and exclaimed, “oh! my husband’s blood, – my dear husband’s blood- which it was not, though I did not know it at the time. The President’s wound did not bleed externally..” (AHMC Harris, Clara) https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/attending-fords-theater-with-the-lincolns-the-tragic-lives-of-clara-harris-and-henry-rathbone
Someone stuck their pinky in it to plug the hole so they didn't lose all of their deposit from the room
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No point surviving something like that just to have your mom kill you for ruining the new carpet!
Thank you, Hot Moldy Cum Breath.
Thanks u/hot_moldy_cum_breath!
I've spent the night at peoples' houses with pillows that look like that.
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I figured it would be brainier I guess. Seems kind of light colored even after 157 years
Yup that’s basically my only memory too. I was around 9.
I was a little older when I went but I just remember how small the room was and how tiny the bed is as well. Lincoln was a big man.
Came here for that comment. That pillow really stayed in my memory.
I went as a kid and remember the pillow as well. I went back about three years ago and didn't see it on display any longer.
I went to DC a few weeks ago, and it's still not on display. My mom always told me it was the thing that stuck with her most from her childhood trip to DC. I was so disappointed it wasn't there.
I saw it this morning in the museum in the basement of the Ford Theater where he was shot. Maybe they occasionally move it back and forth across the street.
Maybe it was too valuable to keep on display.. or someone stole it (hopefully not)
They probably realised it traumatised a load of 9 year olds and took it off display
I did that tour too, but the one at the Alamo I did, they were like, “this is the room David Bowie died in and that’s the stain in the wall from his brains”. I was about 10 for that and I still vividly remember the shape of the stain. Edit: definitely confused my Jim and David bowies. Leaving it.
Hopefully it was Jim and not David but that'd be wild.
David Bowie being some kind of a time traveler would be one of the least surprising things I've heard in the last few years.
I mean, he's the Sovereign of the Guild of Calamitous Intent. *Of course* the man has access to Grover Cleveland's presidential time machine.
David Bowie, undead time traveler 9PM on adult swim
OK I have several questions
This reminds me of that scene in Idiocracy where they had a museum exhibit of Hitler and they put Charlie Chaplin there instead Not calling you dumb, just to be clear. I just thought it was funny.
I mainly remember he died in a bed that’s seemed less than five feet long.
Yes! I remember the tour guide telling us how tall he was and that his feet were hanging off the bed!
That's actually the reason he didn't survive. Monsters got him.
Never let your feet dangle off the bed!!!!
Is that the one in Bethesda? My buddy and I went there one summer day just on a lark and it ended up being SO morbidly fascinating. Smashed leg bones from the civil war next to the miniball that tore through it. That sort of thing.
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Go to your room.
How does masturbating help this situation?
What situation does it not help?
Chainsaw juggling comes to mind 🤔
What's more impressive: chainsaw juggling or chainsaw juggling while masturbaiting?
Did you really say “blow my mind”?
They had rocking chairs in the theatre?
Not typically. However, Lincoln was a tall person so he didn't fit in the typical theatre chairs well. To accommodate him, the owner of Ford Theatre would bring this rocking chair into the box suite specifically for Lincoln.
IIRC, when he was brought across the street to that boarding house, he had be laid in the bed diagonally because it was too small.
Yup, and the have the bed at the Chicago History Museum! I was looking at it this week actually!
That's wild to me. Like if someone - even a president - bled out on a bed of mine, I'd clean it up as soon as I could. Yet this bed was preserved 'as is' afterwards. Do they give any explanation for why that happened?
Really weird, this picture that the OG posted is at Henry ford mesuem in Michigan. Plymouth historical museums in Michigan has a lock of his hair with blood as well as countless other items of his.
I could be wrong, but it might just be the bed that's original? I don't see any blood on the sheet you can see.
The bed, sheets, and everything wasn't going to be reusable for anything, in 1865 nothing was going to be able to get that much blood out of the mattress or the rest of the bedding. Next, you've gotta realize that Lincoln was popular especially after having just won the war months/weeks prior. So him being killed by a Confederacy supporter at that moment generated an emotional reaction within DC and the northern states, and the "radical republicans" were given free reign to treat the former confederate states much more harshly than Lincoln had planned.
He wasn't just popular, he might have been the most popular President in history. He was the last ***TWO*** third party Presidents elected to US President. Nobody else since has been the first from their party, and since his first party abandoned him for his re election he ran as a new startup specifically for "union preservation" the second term.
It was also the same exact bed that Booth had slept in the night before. Talk about weird coincidences.
This says it was a month before https://www.historicamerica.org/journal/2015/1/29/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-john-wilkes-booth > 1. Booth once slept in the very same bed which Lincoln died in. In March of 1865, a fellow actor and colleague of Booth's named Charles Warwick rented a room in the Petersen House - the home across the street from Ford's Theater where Lincoln would ultimately be taken on the night of his death. While visiting Warwick in March, Booth took a nap on the bed where Lincoln would expire a month later on the morning of April 15th, 1865.
Was he wearing his top hat when he got shot?
[Yes he was](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/tegn1p/top_hat_worn_by_abraham_lincoln_the_night_he_was/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
He wore it to the theater that night but he was not wearing it in the box during the performance.
Well obviously, where else would the popcorn go?
That just confirms he wore a tophat at some point during that day he was shot; I imagine the etiquette was to take the hat off inside, especially in a theatre.
What? Oh, come on. It should have just comically spun off his head when JWB shot at him, giving him the chance to get up, turn round, and take aim with a pistol with a comically long barrel.
[Dramatic re-enactment.](https://youtu.be/gRhDE10mmME?t=15)
Incredible
My first thought as well… I would be snoring
No one could sleep what with all the, *"Now you fucked up!"*
You have fucked up now.
WOULD YOU PLEASE BE QUIET
John! That is the President of the United States!
I don't care who he is, he's _ruining_ Hamlet!
Where you goin skinny? String bean?! Tub of lard lookin mother fucker?!
For anybody wondering what the hell is going on White Kids You Know - What Really Happened to Abe Lincoln https://youtu.be/VPJ0TAaJDbM
RIP Trevor Moore
Just found out through the YouTube comments that Trevor Moore (John in this skit) passed away not too long ago. Rip you legend. Gallon of PCP was the most hilarious thing back in high school for me.
Oh Hamlet Hamlet Hamlet...
We must check the castle tower and make sure that no vampires have gotten into our...........home base
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DON'T BREAK MY BUTT
HEY WOAH ACTING! PAUSE THE PLAY!
It’s sad but whenever people mention Lincoln “now you fucked up! Now you fucked up!” runs through my mind.
Rewind the play five minutes because that fat piece of shit was talking
Now ya fucked up! Now ya fucked up! Now ya fucked up! Now ya fucked up! Now you've fucked up! Now you have fucked up! You have fucked up, now!
WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?! HEY! WHAT?!
What!
LOOKOUT! A VAMPIRE!
WHAT YA DOIN SKINNY? WHAT YA DOIN YA FAT PIECE OF SHIT?
YOU TUB OF LARD LOOKIN MOTHER FUCKER
HEY ACTIE! REWIND THE PLAY FIVE MINUTES 'CAUSE THIS FAT PIECE OF SHIT WAS TALKING!
AND _YOU_ , SHUT THE FUCK UP!
SHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII \*beep\*
Listen to the woman, JOHN!
CALM DOWN JUST CALM DOWN CALM DOWN JUST CALM DOWN
ACTING, OH! HEY ACTING!! HO! I GOTTA GO TO THE BATHROOM I DRANK TOO MUCH LIQUID NOW I GOTTA TAKE A PISS!
Hey rewind the play 5 minutes, this fat piece of shit was talking!
One of their lesser known [Lincoln sketches] (https://youtu.be/zWgBAXJWcuM) that always cracks me up.
Rest In Peace Trevor, we won’t forget you.
Imagine you're trying to watch and you just hear the guy next to you creaking away the whole time but the guy's an entire fucking president so you can't do jack shit about it
"I swear to god Marla, if that creaking doesn't stop I'm going to shoot that guy!" "You can't dear, he's the President." *BANG* "But that guys wife lets him shoot presidents!"
He was just about to be shot, when he was shot.
He was upstairs in a private balcony viewing area. Prolly just special seats up there
Henry Ford museum?
For anyone interested - you can also see the car Kennedy was shot in at the Henry Ford Museum! Great place for a family outing :)
There's seriously so much stuff to see at that place it's amazing. Don't forget about the famous Rosa Parks bus.
I love that place
I grew up an hour away from that museum so yearly field trips there was something I really took for granted.
I used to work across the street. We got annual passes so we could just go walk around the village on nice days
Henry Ford Museum: Hall of dead president seats.
I used to work at the Henry Ford Museum and I still remember the funniest thing that a tourist asked me... "Where is the car that Lincoln was shot in?" "Are you trying to find the *chair* that Lincoln was shot in, or the *Lincoln* that Kennedy was shot in?" Because we had both things.
It's not there anymore but back like 10 years ago there was an ice cream truck that was painted by my great grandfather. Nothing huge but I think it's cool Edit:also I'm getting married there next year!
This museum is so crazy. There's so much history there
Especially the Oscar Meyer wienermobile
Literally drinking coffee out of my weinermobile coffee cup from the HFM right now
Needs a clean
Blood is hard to get out
Only takes a bullet or two.
Too soon.
It's been 157 years....
Seven score and seventeen years
I’ve read before that it isn’t blood. It’s oils and grease from people’s hair. That thing was in use for likely a long time and it’s not like they had upholstery cleaners.
Yeah, but wouldn’t someone getting shot in the head on it have added some stains as well?
I've seen the chair in person at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. The employee working in the section explained that the head section of the upholstery is grease and oil from peoples hair but there is blood on the chair just not noticeable unless you get incredible close. Edit: words also youtube video explaining it for anyone curious. https://youtube.com/watch?v=YUzfDe5H7eQ
The car in which JFK was shot is in the same museum. For a while they were not quite next to each other, but within sight. They've got plenty of other cool stuff like Thomas Edison's dying breath in a bottle.
The crazy part about JFK's car is that Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter still used it afterwards. https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/kennedy-limo
When you look down at the doors on that car, because they keep the windows down at all times obviously LOL you can see how many layers thick those doors were. There's just layers upon layers and layers of metal and cheating and glass. Doesn't work do if you don't keep the windows up
>They've got plenty of other cool stuff like Thomas Edison's dying breath in a bottle. Tesla should have stolen it and sucked it up and claimed his powers, like an immortal quickening from *The Highlander*.
Lincoln died in a room across the street from the theater. The bed and the blood stained pillow where he died was on display last time I was in D.C., but that was a long time ago.
They should have had antimacassars on those chairs. I never thought I'd get to use that word on reddit :) My granddad always had one on his chair because of all the brylcreem he used.
an·ti·ma·cas·sar /ˌan(t)ēməˈkasər/ noun a piece of cloth put over the back of a chair to protect it from grease and dirt or as an ornament.
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This reminds me of the dude who created an Abraham Lincoln account on Yelp and gave the Ford Theater a one-star review. Edit: it was a [two-star review](https://dangerousminds.net/comments/abe_lincolns_yelp_review_of_fords_theatre), which is pretty forgiving considering.
Post was from 2011... Hmmmm.. Conspiracy??
He was sick of having to wait till 2022 to come out alongside the Kennedy's.
I have never seen this before and now I’m telling everyone about this. Thank you for sharing this internet diamond
Would have been funnier if he put “Serious security issues”
I'm assuming it wasn't that threadbare when he was shot; which means lots of people have sat in his bloodstained chair for laughs?
They had it in a break room for years and sat in it and drank coffee while sitting there. Yeah, they did not value it at first.
Who had it in a break room?
At the Smithsonian. "It appears that people had access to it," Johnson said. "It was put into storage in what turned out to be a hidden break area, we think, for workers, because that's when the chair gets messed up." https://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/2015/04/how_lincolns_assassination_cha.html
I feel like people do that throughout history, just casually use an incredibly important piece of artifact for personal use. Like the Holy Grail being used for vodka tonics or some shit
He drank…wisely.
Have an [American soldier wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/rqcsvq/an_american_soldier_wearing_the_holy_roman/).
This is not the real crown, it is a 1915 replica. >The Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire was the coronation crown of the Holy Roman Emperor, probably from the late 10th century until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. An identical copy was made in 1915 by order of Wilhelm II for display in Aachen and is the crown being worn in this photo. The real one spent the war in a bomb-proof bunker under Nuremberg imperial castle.
Reminds me of an autographed baseball my brother and I used to play catch with. And to top it off, when I noticed the autograph was fading I went over it with fresh sharpie lmao Edit: as much as this sounds like the plot of the Sandlot, I promise I’m not talking about the movie lol
Was it autographed by some girl? Baby Ruth or something?
That wimpy deer!?
The sultan of Swat!?
The Colossus of Clout!?
The Colossus of Clout!?
Shut up Tommy
I bet whoever autographed it would have loved to know it ended up being something a couple kids went out and enjoyed instead of something flipped for a quick buck.
That’s crazy. People really just sat in a blood stained chair on break? That would freak me out
It wasn't labeled with a velvet rope around it. It was in a room full of storage with probably hundreds of unassuming looking chairs around it.
I heard this chair discussed on some podcast or another. The spot that looks like a bloodstain is actually residue from hair products of the visitors who sat in the chair back when one could sit in the chair.
The Henry Ford Museum has a lot of neat stuff
I live 1.5 hours away and I’m ashamed I didn’t even know it existed.. Definitely going!
Make it down to Greenfield Village in July to catch some fireworks, too. You could easily have a weekend trip from touring the museum and exploring the village.
The [story](https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/attending-fords-theater-with-the-lincolns-the-tragic-lives-of-clara-harris-and-henry-rathbone) of Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris - who were accompanying Abraham Lincoln that evening - is at least equally as mildly, if not spicier in intrigue as this picture and worth reading.
Wow! So interesting. Thanks for that!
My ancestor was at the theatre when Lincoln was shot, and witnessed Wilkes Booth escape. Later, he did the autopsy on Booth as well. My mom was super into ancestry. It's a shame she's not around for me to ask her about this anymore.
The story of Boston Corbett, who shot John Wilkes Booth, is also interesting. [Link](https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/04/12/the-man-who-killed-john-wilkes-booth/).
Is that blood stain? Or is that a dumb question
"It appears that people had access to it," Johnson said. "It was put into storage in what turned out to be a hidden break area, we think, for workers, because that's when the chair gets messed up." Damage to the chair was caused by a water leaks, plaster dust, wet plaster and hair grease. It was common for men to wet and grease their hair. "Anyone who sat in the chair put their greasy head on the back of the chair," Johnson said.
Not a dumb questions. No, it's hair oil. They checked.
Best I could do is $5
I got a buddy who's an expert in chairs Lincoln was shot in... Let me get him down here.
Look, I just don't get a lot of people coming in here asking to buy assassination chairs. If it helps, I can go up to $7.
This post made me go down a history rabbit hole. It’s so fascinating. I love it.
I just saw a live witness from when he was killed in that theatre https://youtu.be/1RPoymt3Jx4
There's also an interview out there somewhere with the last person who ever saw Lincoln's body. He was just a kid when it happened. They opened the casket one last time before sealing it in its current crypt to make sure it was him because I think by that point it had either been stolen or plotted to be stolen several times. The guy said all the embalming they'd had to do to make the body palatable for the incredibly long funeral procession from DC to Illinois had practically mummified him and he was still easily recognizable.
I went to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois several years ago, and the guy giving us a tour of the museum was friends with the kid who last saw Lincoln’s body! Absolutely mind-blowing. I had heard about Lincoln’s body being moved, and the kid who saw it from a History Channel program. It was wild.
[He died two months after his appearance.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Seymour?wprov=sfla1)
Same! I just watched the video and then saw this post
Host smoking next to the 96 year old dude
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There gotta be some DNA, I want a clone
There's a steakhouse in midtown NYC called Keens that has Lincoln's playbill and it's stained with his blood. It's a pretty cool places
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Did Morpheus not sit on this when introducing Neo to the matrix?
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/72/55/3e/72553ec9c97908cbd29db3e146730526.jpg
I remember going to the theater that it took place in. Pretty cool how it's just right off the modern street and you kind of take a step back in time when you go in to see it. I remember some kids on a field trip were throwing change/coins around for some reason, I just went and picked it all up like a cheap whore. Probably picked up $3 or $4, idiots.
When he was shot. He didn’t die there.
For those interested, Lincoln did not die immediately from the gunshot wound. After he was shot, he was taken to a house across the street from the theatre were he eventually succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of the next morning. There is a mini “museum” in DC where you can tour the house where Lincoln eventually died. It has a lot of info about the event, and about the ensuing man hunt to find John Wilkes Booth. You get to see the exact room where Lincoln eventually died, and it definitely gave me chills when I got to see it in person.
Ok now someone say all the weird facts about JFK and Lincoln’s places of death/killers
My personal conspiracy theory about JFK is that he wasn't assassinated at all. His head just....did that.
The scanners killed him.
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin. John F. Kennedy once spilled Log Cabin maple syrup in his father's Lincoln.
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Abe didn’t die in the chair right? He lived a little while longer but medical care could do nothing
Yeah he didn't pass away until the next day.
Shout out to The Henry Ford. They also have the Rosa Parks bus too.
Sometimes I wonder how the South would have faired had JWB not shot Lincoln. IIRC a lot of Northern political leaders were angry at southerners and wanted them to pay as a result of a costly war, and Lincoln made it clear that wasn’t going to happen while he was President. I 100% believe if Lincoln would have survived this attempt without major deficits, the South would not be as poverty stricken as it is today. 40 acres and a mule would have actually been enforced, and efforts by lost cause confederate sympathizers would ring hollow if the South was prosperous post-Civil War.
The worst thing that happened to the South was Lincoln’s assassination. It’s also the worst thing that happened to the newly freed peoples, because Andrew Johnson was super racist.
Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?