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I stand here without endorsement from many bigname politicians or any other kind of prop. I do not intend to offer to you the tired and glib cliches which have been aseptic part of our political life. I am the candidate of the people of america. [applause] rep. Chisholm fellow americans we have looked in vain to the Nixon Administration for the spirit character and words to bring out the best in us. To rekindle our faith in the american dream. Yet all that we have received in return is political manipulation deceit and deception, cowardice and in difference to our individual problems, and divi...

Her in ford theater. That is a very unique experience for me as a writer. I think sometimes at fort theater, they, if i can speak for them, they have to almost deny the box in a way. You are doing a play that has nothing to do with lincoln, and yet you cant cover it up. You cant not lighted. It is there. It is always present. So what is wonderful and difficult in a certain way is that it is meant to be present. It is meant to be part of the play. So i think sitting in the audience realizing there was a night on april 14 in 1865 that a president and his wife sat in that box and were watching a ...

From stories of people who were Major Players that night, and even sometimes, we will learn about the stories of people who were secondary players on the night of the assassination, like dr. Leal, but we dont get to what regular people experienced. That was what the remembering Lincoln Project was meant to solve. We found partners in historical societies and libraries and institutions across the country that are allowing us that have allowed us to digitize items from their collections and put them together so you can explore them and learn about these responses on your own. David we are going ...

You today. We have been working for the last year and half to create remembering lincoln. It allows us to take resources, primary source resources from around the country and around the world and digitize them and put them online so that anyone, anywhere in the world can learn more about how regular people responded to Abraham Lincolns assassination. David mckenzie when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five days after general robert he lead surrendered to general Ulysses S Grant down at appomattox courthouse, and this is, going back and the moment, the first president ial assassina...

Programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on her schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. You are looking at a live picture from Oak Ridge Cemetery from revealed illinois, where the 150th anniversary of president aber cap president abraham we can pause euro. With us is richard hart, a springfield resident and author. Your book is lincolns springfield. Tell us what we are going to see today and whats going to happen behind you this afternoon. This afternoon, you ...