Piece of Thorax of Lincoln's Killer

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

There are plenty of historical medical curiosities at the venerable Mutter Museum, but one of the rarest celebrity items is a preserved specimen from the 1865 autopsy conducted on a ship at the Washington Navy Yard on John Wilkes Booth. It's a small chunk of the Presidential assassin's thorax.

The flamboyant actor-murderer might fly into a rage if he saw how he's upstaged at this superlative museum by a wall of skulls, the Soap Lady, assorted skeletons and preserved oddities -- all shrieking for attention and approval.

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