American president assassination blood

This old newspaper article describes how the blood of American President Abraham Lincoln was collected after his assassination, and also describes the condition of the blood stains.

The report is of unusual historical interest because it describes the condition of President Lincoln’s bloodstains in 1901, 36 years after his assassination in 1865.

According to the newspaper report a Mr. Bancroft (no first name is supplied in the article) was in Ford’s theater on the night President Lincoln was assassinated.
Apparently, some of the President’s blood spattered some of the theater programs after he was shot, and Mr. Bancroft ’secured’ one of these programs.
The report states: ‘the bloodstains are brown and faded, like old ink, but are perfectly plain, and one may see on the paper little sprays of the blood that broke from the large drops and stained the paper.’
Photo below: old newspaper article describing how the blood of American president Abraham Lincoln was collected after his assassination, and the condition of the blood stains.
The programs were later donated to a Kansas museum.
The article was originally published in a British newspaper in 1901.

American president assassination blood