Any fan of Abraham Lincoln will want to watch this special. Both entertaining and educational, the viewer is treated to both history and science. Whether the story is fictional or not, any viewer will experience a common truth, that this subject is not only morbid but offensive in good and bad ways. For instance, the subject matter of the photo is hard to watch as we are forced to view it time and time again. After watching, our perspective of Abraham Lincoln changes as we are potentially viewing an Abraham Lincoln image in the worst possible case. Dead. Although intriguing and somewhat downright ghastly, it is hard to continue wo watch while also hard to look away. The documentary does repeat itself time and time again and reviews its findings multiple times in order to expand run time. While the story could of had more resolve in its findings, it definitely needed less slow motion shots of pointless imagery of side characters walking to and from different scenes. This is as much a story of the individual doing the investigation as it is of Abraham Lincoln. A hard, yet enjoyable documentary to watch.
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Pure Hokom
drjgardner13 July 2023
This film purports to authenticate a photo that shows Lincoln after he died. There has never been any indication that such a photo exists, but that doesn't mean it doesn't. But the person in the photo is not Lincoln. It doesn't even look like Lincoln. Match it with any of the photos of Lincoln at the time and you can see that for yourself.
Well, maybe being shot in the back of the head changes your appearance? OK, maybe. Unlikely, but maybe.
The photo is a type that according to the expert interviewed, who was supposed to be the world's best in this area, that type of photo was only taken in the 1850s. After that people switched to paper, not glass. Lincoln died in 1865. To prove that the photographers used this type of photo, the woman who made the film interviews the archivist for the photographer who says of the 1600+ photos they made, there is one that is on glass. All the rest are not. But that proves nothing, since the photographer was taking pictures in the 1850s, and since he was a state-of-the-arty photographers, he wouldn't be using an old fashioned photo in 1865.
The she wanders off to see her father who shows us why the bullet shot in the back of Lincoln's head didn't go out the front. She shows him shotting all kinds of bullets into material from a distance of 6 feet and then she does the same with the derringer, only now she doesn't show us the 6 foot distance. The bullet stays in the material, which she says proves that the bullet didn't exit. What she doesn't show is what happens if Booth was closer than 6 feet. What happens if the derringer is against Lincoln's skull and they you fire. That she doesn't show.
The photographers did take 2 photos of the empty bed where Lincoln died. Look at the bed linen and the pillow cases. They are not the same as the ones that show Lincoln.
I could go on. This is hokum at its worst.
Well, maybe being shot in the back of the head changes your appearance? OK, maybe. Unlikely, but maybe.
The photo is a type that according to the expert interviewed, who was supposed to be the world's best in this area, that type of photo was only taken in the 1850s. After that people switched to paper, not glass. Lincoln died in 1865. To prove that the photographers used this type of photo, the woman who made the film interviews the archivist for the photographer who says of the 1600+ photos they made, there is one that is on glass. All the rest are not. But that proves nothing, since the photographer was taking pictures in the 1850s, and since he was a state-of-the-arty photographers, he wouldn't be using an old fashioned photo in 1865.
The she wanders off to see her father who shows us why the bullet shot in the back of Lincoln's head didn't go out the front. She shows him shotting all kinds of bullets into material from a distance of 6 feet and then she does the same with the derringer, only now she doesn't show us the 6 foot distance. The bullet stays in the material, which she says proves that the bullet didn't exit. What she doesn't show is what happens if Booth was closer than 6 feet. What happens if the derringer is against Lincoln's skull and they you fire. That she doesn't show.
The photographers did take 2 photos of the empty bed where Lincoln died. Look at the bed linen and the pillow cases. They are not the same as the ones that show Lincoln.
I could go on. This is hokum at its worst.
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