Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address - best version ever recorded 🇺🇸

[rocketfighter]

In my public speaking class in college we had to deliver a speech in front of the class. This was the speech I chose to deliver. This was in the Philippines. I still can recite the last few lines 50 years later and my wife is always surprised whenever this speech is on TV as I say the words just before Lincoln does: With malice towards

[toddbonny]

He gives Lincoln the high-pitched voice that contemporary accounts describe. I've only seen Daniel Day-Lewis do it before.

[brokervc]

1 of the most moving speeches ever said, and how in such a short time we forget it's words and meaning.

[chrisflaherty]

This speech needed no commentary. It stood and still stands on its own merits.

[kevinstreeter]

Has there been a movie of Federick Douglas? If not, there should be.

[Primitarian]

I heard Lincoln had a high-pitched voice, yet I could never imagine this because of all the Disney films in which his voice is deep. In this rendition, though, I see how a high-pitched voice could have been compatible with what I have seen in the photos and in the words.

[richardblayneamerican]

The best description we have of Lincoln's voice is that it was higher pitched, based on recollections of those who heard his speeches. Who knows? Without amplification, our voices tend to be higher when we have to shout. Of course, all that really matters is the power of Lincoln's words.

[williamkoscielniak]

Greatest speech ever given by a world leader in my humble opinion. It sounds like a perfect harmonizing of biblical themes with American themes and themes from the Bhagavad Gita. Not longer after this extraordinary speech he would have a dream in which he saw a coffin in the Whitehouse and saw people mourning over it. He asked "who has died?" and an officer said "The president has died by an assassins bullet". And then shortly after that dream he would be shot by an assassins bullet.... on Good Friday.

[Gablesman]

They have Lincoln's voice right according to contemporary accounts and descriptions. Of course, we have no recordings.

[Zarastro]

This and Day-Lewis are indeed the best Lincoln’s I’ve seen.

[rocistone]

Applause and all praises to Graham Sibley. Here he has presented the best Lincoln since Royal Dano.

[dolldoll]

👩‍💻This man was heaven sent. "Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man."

[aesutton]

This is a History Channel show called Abraham Lincoln. There's also a Washington, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, and maybe more by the same director. They all have in common fantastic casting and a half movie, half documentary style of presentation. I recommend them all.

[starguy]

I'm amazed how good video recording was, back in 1865!

[irvinlopez]

Lincoln created the largest system of Government. Having served this country let us not forget those who has born the battle, his widow and his orphan.

[CH]

Obama has such a deep and profound understanding of Lincoln. It’s really cool that one of our best modern day presidents has such a reverence for our greatest president.

[mikegebert]

The actor is Graham Sibley and it's from the History Channel miniseries "Abraham Lincoln"

[zeth]

He was a true republican rest in peace Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[davehue]

Abraham Lincoln is among the very best president's ever... I'd include Washington, made a rag tag army into a fighting force to rival Britain's military...and as president, started the very foundations of our government

[RichardASalisbury]

I would love to hear recited aloud the entire speech. I just read it; all of it is very moving. And, this struck me as I finished reading John Meacham's great book "And There Was LIght"--as it had come to me when I was an undergraduate in history, almost 60 years ago, that the US Civil War was a continuation of our Revolutionary War--that the Civil War did not finish resolving the contradictions inherent in the social make-up of the 13 colonies and in our Constitution. Our Revolutionary/Civil War has still not ended. I wonder will it ever? Or will too many of our citizens continue to adhere to the anti-Christian beliefs in white supremacy and in the right of some human beings to rule with absolute authority over others?