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Re: Online exhibition about Lincoln assassination



yes, done about 100 years later
and which proved what?
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From: Diane Shaw <ShawD@SIL.SI.EDU>
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: Online exhibition about Lincoln assassination


>houser@OCLC.ORG wrote:
>
>Is it likely there is some 'evidence' of the assassination on the dress,
>making display of the item somewhat insensitive, verging on tabloid-esque?
>
>___
>
>It might depend on how the evidence is displayed or explained. For a
well-done, sensitively handled online exhibition on a parallel subject,
about the testing of blood stains on a shawl that Mary Todd Lincoln
allegedly wore at Ford's Theater, see this by the Chicago Historical
Society:
>
>http://www.chicagohistory.org/wetwithblood/index.htm
>"Wet With Blood: The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln's Cloak"
>
>--Diane Shaw
>
>
>
>S. Diane Shaw
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