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4 days ago · Soon after they met, Lucy apparently used her influence to get Booth an invitation to Lincoln’s second inauguration on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, DC. Booth and five of his conspirators are visible in photographs of the March 4 inauguration, standing within "striking distance" of the president, as Booth later boasted.
3 days ago · Four score and 81 years ago on November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln stood in a newly dedicated cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg and delivered one of the most stirring and famous speeches in American history.
3 days ago · Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. President Lincoln gave his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, as the Civil War was reaching its bloody conclusion. With reconstruction between the North and South looming, Lincoln paused to take stock of what had been lost, and what could be gained.
2 days ago · The Ed Sullivan Theater (originally Hammerstein's Theatre; later the Manhattan Theatre, Billy Rose's Music Hall, CBS Radio Playhouse No. 3, and CBS Studio 50) is a theater at 1697–1699 Broadway, between 53rd and 54th Streets, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
3 days ago · Meet the talented cast of Lincoln, including Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, and John Hawkes. Discover the actors and actresses who brought these historical figures to life on the big screen.
3 days ago · In his Second Inaugural Address he embodied the spirit of his policy in the famous words “with malice toward none; with charity for all.” His terms satisfied neither the Confederate leaders nor the Radical Republicans , and so no peace was possible until the final defeat of the Confederacy .
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5 days ago · In his inaugural address, Lincoln sought to assuage the fears of people in the southern states, declaring that he had no intention of interfering with their "property" (i.e., slaves).
