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Please bring your lunch and enjoy a 30 minute lecture at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum!Surgeon General Joseph Barnes witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s autopsy on April 15th, 1865, recalling, “There it lay upon the white china, a little black mass no bigger than the end of my finger, dull motionless and harmless, yet the cause of such mighty changes in the world’s history as we may perhaps never realize.”
The wound Abraham Lincoln received on the night of April 14th changed American history forever. Doctors immediately attempted to prolong Lincoln’s life using a variety of techniques honed by Civil War medical adancements. Join Park Ranger Garrett Kost from Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site as he dives into the forensic details of Lincoln’s medical treatment.
Reservations are required. Admission to the Museum is included in ticket price.
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437 7th St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20004
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