Using thousands of archival photographs, woodcuts, drawings, engravings, and posters, this 1959 NBC television program tells Abraham Lincoln’s story from his birth in a log cabin to his assassination at Ford’s Theater in 1865. Presented by The Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film in partnership with the Abraham Lincoln Institute. (60 minutes.)
Film is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first serve. Please enter through the Special Events Entrance on the corner of 7th and Constitution Ave.
Official Website: http://www.archives.gov
Added by Kawilmes on January 19, 2007