He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group and the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, john mckee barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingwood, for the past seven years, teaching a class on darwin and lincoln, who were born on the same day. Before that, he was a High School Teacher in the Houston Public School system. That is good preparation for the kind of flack he has to put up now at it. This is his first book, and he has started a blog. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. The book has received a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries. Paradoxically, americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. Detractors of the rail splitter have been a crowd
We are told that manila bay is open. We are to take the rest of our cargo to manila where the railroad bat conference have set up shop to put them together. So we sail around the south china sea. There is so the rock. A proud and sorrowful memory. Of American History tv visited fords theatre in washington, d c where Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded as he sat to in the president ial lose with his wife mary watching the comedy the american cousin. Commissioned it to mark the anniversary of lincolns assassination, this is about 30 minutes. Were at fords theater with james still and mary bacon. I want to ask both of you what it is like i will start with you, mary bacon, because i think this is a new experience for you, what it is like to produce a lincolncentered play in fords theater. With that flagdraped box right by you. What is that experience like . It is definitely, what is the word very aware of it. I am very aware of it. The first time i stepped into the theater, i was like, wh
History book shelf with the bestknown history writers. The president s, looking at the policies of the commanders in chief. Top College Professor delving into the past. And real america featuring are keisel government and films from the 1930s through the 1970. Cspan tv funded by your local cable or satellite provider. American history tv visited fords theater in washington, d. C. Where on the night of april 14th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded as he sat in the president ial box with his wife watching a popular comedy. He died the next morning. We sat down with james still and mary bacon to talk about fords production of the widow lincoln, commissioned to mark president lincolns assassination about 150 years ago. This is about 30 mens. We are at fords theater with james still and mary bacon about the play, the widow lincoln. I want to start with you mary. What is it like to produce alingcentered play in ford theater with that flagdraped box . What is that experience like . W
[laughter] because she is here, we will be honest. But we wont shock anybody. One thing i alluded to, people did think that our mom was this cookiecutter mother. Those who know her and 20 people in austan do, she is a great mother. It goes to the whole thing where it is much easier to see people as onedimensional. She is a very strong lady who just happens to not shout. That is why people saw her as more conservative than she was or is. One thing about both of my parents that i feel like is a great trait to have is that they wanted us to become our own people. They are both very open and i dont know if people would get that from their public stereotype. She is a secret rust safari and rastafarian. I hope i didnt still that from you. I was going to stay that say that also. Our mother loves music and she loves bob marley. When we lived in austin and my dad was governor i heard a rumor in high school that there was a concert and my mom and i snuck out to see if they were coming. Mom loves
Our experience to come in was different than any other family. Probably will never happen again in history. We took a picture of the family behind the oval office desk. That night we did not get to move into the white house because nixon had left so quickly, so unexpectedly, they had left their daughter and soninlaw to pack all of their clothes and belongings. We had to go back to our little house in alexandria, virginia, suburbia the neighborhood surrounded by secret service. We have been living there as dad was Vice President. I will never forget that. Mom was cooking dinner. We were sitting around the dinner table and moms cooking dinner and she looked over at my dad and she goes, gerry something is wrong here . [laughter] steve you just became president of the United States and i am still cooking. Literally, dad would commute to the office every day, which was the oval office. We got there a little different way than the rest of the family did. Jenna . Jenna we got there a little b