American Artifacts Clip: President Lincoln's Overcoat - Yana Jaffe, Park Ranger

Cool, I'm really impressed by the boxes and packaging you use to store this stuff. That's exactly what I came here to see.

Wow, those are some really great boxes they're showing. Too bad you really don't get to see what's in them.

A lot of blabbing but we didn't see the coat.

Ya that was really disappointing that you didn't get to see his actual coat.

Absolutely the single best box video on the net. Everything about it just screams "Important box!" I'll be telling my friends.

Seems everyone was disappointed Lincoln’s coat wasn’t shown like they gave the impression it was to be. Back in the late 60s I visited Fords theater and we were allowed to see the chair he was shot in. There were blood stains on the back. We also saw the peek hole Booth cut into the door. We went across the street to the boarding house that they took him to and saw the bed he died in along with the blood stained pillow he died on. Oh, the original flag Booth got stuck on was still there. People can’t do that anymore - everything is blocked off or put in museums. I also saw the coat he was shot in with the blood stains which is the coat we didn’t get to see here. I feel privileged for what I was able to see.

But the coat. I wanted to see the coat!

After all that you don’t give us a good view of the coat?

I was expecting you to show the coat!!! I don't like being teased like that.

Disappointing that we didn’t get to see the overcoat, but it is cool that they’re preserving these pieces of our history so that future generations will be able to appreciate them as well.

What a load of disappointment. 5:21 of absolutely nothing and no display of Lincoln’s coat.

I was there in 1962 before it actually was restored.  I don't think the original theatre had a glass front and a covered area like this.  But we did see the door where Booth carved out a hole so he could watch President Lincoln.  We went across the street to "The House Where Lincoln Died" and we saw the bed and the pillow encased in a glass case and the pillow had blood all over it.

Didn't get to see the coat, but the woman talking about it was really cute.

"American Artifacts Clip: President Lincoln's Box". fixed it for you.

The reverence shown by the staff is remarkable. There is good in this world yet. You all give me hope.

Working with these historic/amazing artifacts; What a dream job.

The Petersen House across the street from Ford's Theater is the proper name of the house where Lincoln died. It is still open to the public.

CLICK BAIT!!

You have to click on the above link to see the coat and also the suit Lincoln was wearing underneath. Interesting.

The Lincoln Shrine in Redlands, California, is the best collection of Lincoln/Civil War artifacts I personally have ever seen. When I was in the old building 25 years ago, they had Top Hats, Cloaks, and Canes, that Lincoln had used. They had on display several hairs, from locks, cut by Mary Todd after his death. There was a Bible that belonged to Stonewall Jackson, that had notes written in the corner of the pages, in Jackson’s handwriting. The collection was made by a wealthy, turn-of-the century Redlands real estate investor, Robert Watchorn. Watchorn was an immigrant from Britain who greatly admired Lincoln. The museum room was filled with authentic Civil War battle field relics, Rifles, Mini-balls, Bayonets, Watchorn had collected in the early 1900’s. I was told at that time, the Museum only displayed about a third of what Watchorn had collected. The rest of the collection was stored in a warehouse. A new, larger, museum has been built and I intend to visit it this fall.