If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the video recitation of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address put together by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and which features Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter.
Burns, who produced an epic documentary about the Civil War more than two decades ago, combined snippets of ex-presidents, lawmakers and celebrities reading Lincoln's most famous speech. The participants range from Steven Colbert to Steven Spielberg to Uma Thurman.
The 150th anniversary of the address, probably the most iconic two minutes of American oratory in history, is today and Burns is encouraging the public to make video recordings of themselves reciting Lincoln’s words.
As he works on a film about the speech, Burns is marking the speech from seven score and 10 years ago by urging Americans to, at a minimum, memorize those immortal words.
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