Of all the many stories, myths and legends involving Abraham Lincoln,
the most bizarre incident involving our 16th President actually happened
11 years after his death. Friday, April 16th at 10 pm, The History
Channel will present “Stealing Lincoln’s Body,” a two hour documentary
that originally aired in 2009. The program covers a 36 year period,
beginning with Lincoln’s assassination on April 14th, 1865, his
extensive funeral which saw his remains moved by train from Washington
D.C. to Springfield, Illinois, with 12 stops in between, and ending with
his final internment in 1901. But the heart of “Stealing Lincoln’s
Body” is the stranger-than-fiction tale of the attempted theft of
Abraham Lincoln’s corpse.
