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Abraham Lincoln Bedspread to be Tested for Blood

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday April 14 2015, @09:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the history-is-a-bloody-business dept.

takyon writes:

The Wisconsin Historical Society has asked University of Wisconsin textile expert Majid Sarmadi to run a blood test on a bedspread that may have covered President Abraham Lincoln after he was shot 150 years ago. Sarmadi and the state's crime lab have run their own preliminary tests, and the FBI may be asked to conduct its own test.

If blood is present, Sarmadi said he hoped to confirm eventually whether it was Lincoln's blood through DNA tests on other assassination artefacts.

No DNA test has been conducted on any artefacts such as a pillow on display at the Ford's Theatre museum known to contain Lincoln's blood, because of fears of ruining them, Bellais said.

"Technology now has it that you can actually test these things without destroying the pieces," Bellais said. "I wouldn't be surprised that fairly soon we will have Lincoln DNA on record."

Yes, it is almost time to clone Lincoln.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @11:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @11:37PM (#170632)

    "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it."

    Abraham Lincoln did not care about black people.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by wisnoskij on Wednesday April 15 2015, @02:43AM

    by wisnoskij (5149) <{jonathonwisnoski} {at} {gmail.com}> on Wednesday April 15 2015, @02:43AM (#170703)

    What was he saving it from? It is now like 2 centuries after the north destroyed the economy of the south and they are all still just the illiterate trailer trash of America. Whatever it was he seems to have failed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:46AM (#170876)

      Every nation needs an underclass.