The 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's funeral visitation at the Ohio Statehouse is Wednesday, which brings to mind an odd story about how the president's body was exhumed 36 years ...

This article was updated to reflect the 2022 season of "Exhumed." After somebody dies, we have a funeral and “lay the body to rest,” typically through burial or cremation. However, not everyone’s rest ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 14.--The body of Abraham Lincoln was to-day removed from the spot where it has been secreted since an attempt was made in 1878 to steal it, and placed in a new tomb.

Booth’s son was her great-grandfather, she said, and that makes her the great-great-granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. “There’s never been any doubt in our minds,” she said.

In 1901, Lincoln’s family adapted what is apparently the standard grave robbing prevention method for celebs: They had his body re-buried under a lot of concrete. Sources : history.com ...

President Lincoln's funeral train in Philidelphia near the start of its 13 day journey from Washington to Springfield. Photo courtesy of After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, his body ...

John Wilkes Booth hid from federal troops for 12 days after he shot President Abraham Lincoln. ... as recently as 1992 he advocated the exhumation of Booth’s grave.