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"He's dead, Jim."
Posted on 09/04/2006 7:34:45 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
THE grandson of Benito Mussolini has lodged a legal request to exhume the body of Italy's fascist dictator to find out how "Il Duce" really died, his lawyer said.
World War 2 resistance accounts say Mussolini was executed by a partisan fighter "in the name of the Italian people" after he was captured in April 1945 while fleeing Allied forces with his mistress. "All lies," said Luciano Randazzo, Guido Mussolini's lawyer. "The real story is not what they told you ... absolutely not."
The accounts name the executioner as the late Walter Audisio, also know by his war name "Colonel Valerio". They say the execution took place at the gates of a villa overlooking Lake Como in northern Italy.
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Just give thanks the pr*ck's dead!!!
Sure, long as they kill him again.
Good ideeer! And have George W. Bush present to show him what real fascism looks like (present tense)!
I thought he died hanging upsidedown torn apart by an Italian mob. I remember seeing something like this on a television newsreel on The Twentith Century.
I bet no one remembers that show. Came on before Disney.
This thread is worthless without pictures.
"He's dead, Jim."
Lets get Nicolai Ceausescu (only spelling I could get close to) and have a party.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BODY EXHUMED AND VIEWED IN 1901.
23 People Viewed the Remains and Identified Them as Mr. Lincoln's.
Lincoln's Coffin
In 1900 the monument at Abraham Lincoln's tomb had to be torn down and completely rebuilt. Construction of the present tomb took 15 months, and during that time Lincoln's coffin was in a temporary grave a few feet away. The photograph to the left shows the temporary grave after being opened, and the pine box holding Mr. Lincoln's coffin is clearly visible. In late August, 1901, Lincoln's body was moved to its new resting place. A month later, Robert Lincoln visited the tomb and decided things needed to be changed again. In 1876 thieves had failed in an attempt to steal Mr. Lincoln's corpse and hold it for ransom. Robert didn't want a repeat of that possibility. This time the coffin would be buried in a huge cage 10 feet deep and then encased in concrete. The photograph to the left shows Lincoln’s grave after it was opened in order to transfer the coffin. In the photograph below, Lincoln's coffin is in the center. The outer pine box which had been broken away lies to the right of the coffin. Many of the men removed their hats out of respect.
Both the cage and the coffin would be hardened forever in a solid block of rock. Robert's idea for this had come from the burial procedure employed for George M. Pullman (inventor of the Pullman sleeping car).
Finally, on September 26, 1901, all was ready. Because of the permanency of this burial, a discussion arose among those present as to whether the coffin should be opened. Some people argued that the remains should be identified due to rumors around the country that Mr. Lincoln was not the body in the box. Other people thought opening the casket would be a violation of privacy. In the end, it was decided to open the coffin.
Two plumbers, Leon P. Hopkins and his nephew, Charles L. Willey, chiseled an oblong piece out of the top of the lead-lined coffin. The piece these two men cut out was just over Lincoln's head and shoulders. When the casket was opened, a harsh, choking smell arose. 23 people slowly walked forward and peered down. Mr. Lincoln's features were totally recognizable. His face had a melancholy expression, but his black chin whiskers hadn't changed at all. The wart on his cheek and the coarse black hair were obvious characteristics of Lincoln's. The biggest change was that the eyebrows had vanished. The president was wearing the same suit he wore at his second inauguration, but it was covered with yellow mold. All 23 people were unanimous in their agreement that the remains were indeed those of Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln's Coffin
After the viewing of the body the oblong piece was then soldered back into place. The coffin was lowered into the cage. 4,000 pounds of cement were then poured down covering the cage and casket. For various reasons, Mr. Lincoln's remains had been moved 17 times since his original burial. They would be moved no more. Mr. Lincoln lies buried 10 feet beneath the floor of his tomb which is visited by more than 1,000,000 people a year.
One of the people who viewed the body was a man named J.C. Thompson. In 1928 Mr. Thompson said, "As I came up I saw that top-knot of Mr. Lincoln's - his hair was course and thick, 'like a horse's,' he used to say - and it stood up high in front. When I saw that, I knew that it was Mr. Lincoln. Anyone who had ever seen his pictures would have known it was him. His features had not decayed. He looked just like a statue of himself lying there."
Fleetwood Lindley
All 23 of the people who viewed the remains of Mr. Lincoln have long since passed away. The last one was Fleetwood Lindley who died on February 1, 1963. Three days before he died, Mr. Lindley was interviewed. He said, "Yes, his face was chalky white. His clothes were mildewed. And I was allowed to hold one of the leather straps as we lowered the casket for the concrete to be poured. I was not scared at the time but I slept with Lincoln for the next six months." Mr. Lindley was 75 when he died and 13 when he had viewed the body. He had been the only child to do so. Mr. Lindley was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery not far from Lincoln's Tomb. The photograph to the left depicts the youthful Mr. Lindley at age 13. The one to the right depicts him when he was 75.
Fleetwood Lindley
The information on this page was taken mostly from an article by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt in the February 15, 1963, edition of Life magazine. Also, I consulted "The Assassination of Lincoln: History and Myth" by Lloyd Lewis. The Life article includes photographs (the source of those on this page). No photographs of the open coffin in Springfield exist. However, a photograph of Lincoln in an open coffin that was taken in New York City in 1865 does exist. Click here to view it.
Abraham Lincoln's coffin has been moved 17 times, mostly due to numerous reconstructions of the Lincoln Tomb and fears for the safety of the President’s remains. The coffin itself has been opened 5 times: December 21, 1865, September 19, 1871, October 9, 1874, April 14, 1887, and September 26, 1901. (SOURCE: p. 61 of the Abraham Lincoln Fact Book and Teacher’s Guide by Gerald Sanders).
Exactly what did you mean?
Yep,
Hung upside down and beat to death....or....beat to death and hung upside down...or...
Wonder if his hoochie is going to be exhumed also?
Wait, wait, I smell a lawsuit here! Or something else that stinks.
I suspect he's talking about the presidents recent retreat on the term "islamofascism".
Although it would be quite gratifying to discover that he suffered immensely before he died.
Present TensePresent tense expresses an unchanging, repeated, or reoccurring action or situation that exists only now. It can also represent a widespread truth.
I do not understand this morbid curiousity and don't understand why anybody would give a rat's rear end anyway.
I'm in favor of exhuming either Jeffersonian liberalism, or conservatism.
I want Generalísimo Francisco Franco exhumed just to make sure that he is still dead.
That's a close quote of Oscar Wilde. I can't find the original so it's from memory.
What difference could the cause of Mussolini's possibly mean to anyone?
He was involved in WWII, and he died as a result. Mussolini's life and career are pretty much recorded in history, how he died, whether it was by hanging, shooting, lethal injection or choking on a chicken bone should make no difference to anyone.
I don't think it was from hardening of the arteries.
I don't know, this kinda scares me. This is how Lautenberg was re-elected. Just dug him up, pumped him full of embalming fluid, and placed his hand in a waving position.
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