Our Illustrious Dead

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Lecture Series

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Adults
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President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by an assassin and dies April 15, 1865. But that was never the end of the Lincoln story. Instead, it was only just the beginning of a new one lasting into the next century.  "Our Illustrious Dead," will unearth this unknown and sometimes unbelievable history for you, of all things postmortem Lincoln.