Lincoln's Death Photo and the Peanut Gallery Haters

A few years ago, Discovery Channel aired a documentarians foray into the validity of a single photograph—one in which it is claimed that sometime during the morning of April 15th, 1865, Photographer Henry Ulke and his brother were granted access to an expired president and take an Ambrotype, potentially leveraging a copy as a bribe for the man guarding the bedroom—George Valentine Rutherford.I found the documentary fascinating to a fault. Equally fascinating to me is the nature of the skeptics as well.A very brief Discussion of Undiscovered: The Lost Lincoln, and the nature of skeptical voices.