The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, opened a small exhibition Wednesday (today), the handwritten notes from doctors who carried out the autopsy of President Abraham Lincoln.
The documents relating to the property by the bullet that caused killed in Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, April 14, 1865 Lincoln.
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death, the museum will also host a reading of "Our American Cousin," the game Lincoln watched the Ford Theater at night, when he was killed, and to reconstruct what happened after he was shot ,
The event is free and will be held at 18:30 clock on 14 April.
"Anatomy of a Nation: the death of Abraham Lincoln" will run until December 31, visitors have the option of handwritten notes by the surgeons of the United States Army Dr. Joseph Janvier Woodward reading offered by Dr. Edward S. Curtis, led the autopsy the next day at the White House.
Woodward notes contain a description of the "gunshot wound to the head, the skull was significantly thickened by bleeding into the tissue ..." Later, the official information from the autopsy report, he created.
Dr. Robert King Stone, who attended the autopsy, took notes on blank prescription advice. The instruments used in the autopsy be retained by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, DC
(Other opening statements Wednesday will be "Marc Chagall The Magic Flute: Highlights from the Metropolitan Opera" and "50-20 :. masterpieces of Indian art from the Thaw Collection")
Visitors to Cooperstown for the exhibition and / or walking Hall of Fame in order to find a hotel package at the Otesaga Resort Hotel for stays between April 22 to May 31 (excluding weekend of Memorial Day).
Rooms from 289 $ per night, including breakfast and tickets to one of the three museums in the Fenimore Cooper, the Hall of Fame and Museum farmers . Located on Lake Otsego, with a porch and rocking chairs overlooking the lake.
Info: Fenimore Art Museum , 5798 Route 80, Cooperstown, (607) 547-1400; Otesaga Resort Hotel , 60 Lake St., Cooperstown, (607) 547-9931
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