This is a photograph of an updated dagverrreotype of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
Former First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, will be "retried" for insanity this fall in Illinois.
According to the Associated Press, the retrial reenactment events will be sponsored by the Illinios Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission in conjunction with Springfield's Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library aand Museum .
Mrs. Lincoln was initially tried , at the request of her son Robert, on allegations that she was insane in 1875 , a decade after her husband's death, GateHouse News Services reports. Lincoln was declared a "lunatic" and brought to Bellevue Sanitarium in Batavia, Ill. A second jury considering the matter later considered her sane and historians have long disagreed over whether Lincoln would be deemed insane under today's health laws.
The events will kick off with an April 16 roundtable discussion addressing Lincoln's life and mental health issues and taking a modern-day-look on her insanity trial . Retrials, utilizing modern-day lawyers and judges considering actors playing Robert and Mary Lincoln in period costumes, will be held Sept. 24 at Murphy Auditorium, 50 East Erie St. in Chicago, and Oct. 1 at the Lincoln museum in Springfield.
The audience at the two retrials will act as judges, determining whether base on the expert teatimony , they believe Lincoln was sane .
Now that is fascinating and I would like to see it.
ReplyDeleteI wondered why they wanted to 'retry' her case.
ReplyDeleteWhat difference would it make if she liked to shop or not .
Mrs. Lincoln was a woman that like to buy 'gloves' instead of shoes .
Take the money and donate it to the environmental groups .
[giggles] As it's been said ... politics ... sane gone in... crazy coming out . Hahaha