Lincoln conspirators skull's reburial, 20 years ago

The exhumed skull of a would-be assassin, and its long journey home

Washington Post

On May 3, 1898, the Army Medical Museum gave its collections of 2,206 skulls to the Smithsonian, saying they belonged more to the study of ...

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