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Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address 150th Anniversary Commemoration

by jgarrott

LIVE Saturday, March 7, 2015

9:30am-11am ET

 

American History TV will be LIVE from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial starting at 9:30am ET Saturday, March 7, for the 150th anniversary commemoration of President Lincoln's second inaugural address.

 

Thousands gathered on the east front of the U.S. Capitol to hear the speech on March 4, 1865, several weeks before the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination.

 

In partnership with the National Park Service, the Lincoln Group of D.C. will host a reenactment of the President's speech as well as musical performances and speeches about the significance of Lincoln's words today.

 

Speakers will include:

·         Interior Secretary Sally Jewell

·         Meet the Press host Chuck Todd on the Political Climate in 1865

·         Washington and Lee professor Lucas Morel (more-EHL)

·         Howard University professor Edna Greene Medford

·         Inaugural Address presented by Michael Krebs

 

Music by:

·         Civil War Musician Bobby Horton

·         Washington Performing Arts Society's Children of the Gospel Choir

·         U.S. Marine Band

 

 

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