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William R. Rathvon was the only eyewitness who heard Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to leave an audio recollection. William Roedel Rathvon, CSB, (December 31, 1854 – March 2, 1939), sometimes incorrectly referred to as William V. Rathvon or William V. Rathbone, is the only known eyewitness to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, of the over 10,000 witnesses, to have left an audio recording ...
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania. Today, Lincoln is remembered as guiding ...
The Address follows a group of students from The Greenwood School, a boarding school in Putney, Vermont for boys in Grades 6-12 with special needs, such as dyslexia and ADHD as they prepare to recite the Gettysburg Address. The documentary follows the students in their day-to-day lives at the boarding school, as they each prepare for the recital.
It was Identified in 1908 as the location of the Gettysburg Address. [1] However, it is now believed the address was given elsewhere. [2] The pavilion was constructed in 1879 [3] by P. J. and J. J. Tawney, [4] extended in 1904, [5] and was restored in 2013 for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. [6]
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