Hellesen, and actors david salley and Craig Wallace. All these actors appeared on the ford stage, or great works but appeared on the forwards stage, too many times to count. We are thrilled to have them with us today. I am also, i would like to say that we have been watching demonstrations unfold in our neighborhoods and across the nation. As we prayed to the future of the fords feet are, we know we have work to do. We commit to using our platform to tell stories that speak to the present moment with courage, inspiration, feeling, and of course, Abraham Lincolns legacy. Today we are talking with Richard Hellesen Craig Wallace david selby, in a specific play that they all took part in. Fords theater premiered this in 2012. Ford commissioned to at this play, to celebrate the opening of our leadership in 2011. This play explores the relationship between president Abraham Lincoln, played by david selby, and the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, played by Craig Wallace. It seems particularly
Of fords theatre we know we have work to do. We commit to using our platform to tell stories that speak to the present moment with courage, inspiration, healing and of course ache ham lincolns legacy. Today were talking with richard, craig and david about a specific play in which they all took part, necessary sacrifices which ford premiered in 2012. This play explores the relationship between president Abraham Lincoln played by david selby and the abolitionist Frederick Douglas played by Craig Wallace. Its important this week to consider the leadership of these two great americans as they helped our country find its way through one of our greatest crises. So i want to start this afternoon by just first of all welcoming you all. Thank you so much for being with us from across the country, california and d. C. We go coast to coast here. Lets start with richard. Bit m play, richard. How and why did you put the play together . Okay, basically, its the story of two meetings that happen at t
Service. They had been raised with the sense that they had a duty and a responsibility to serve the american people, and they both did, in very, very extraordinary ways. And you know, i think john f. Kennedy the inaugural address remains one of the drof greatess of alltime. I have to agree and say fdr in the events of his time as president shaped the nation, shaned that generation in profound ways. President kennedy, even nixon, is only three years older than kennedy and later president bush, Herbert Walker bush, is only six years older than kennedy and world war ii shapes them. So many other kennedy siblings serve in the war, either in the military or in civilian roles, and i think president kennedy would have encouraged us, were he alive today, to always value Public Service and consider Public Service in its many forms as a way to strengthen the nation and make the world better for the people around us. Alan, a great place to end todays conversation. Thank you for joining us. Doing
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Members of congress and Administration Officials and business leaders. With congress and recess, the American History tv programs are airing in primetime on cspan three. Look for our history features each night beginning at 8 00 eastern including a three day the amount morris am it on the library. Tonight, the first major engagement of the work, the battle of idrang and the soldiers battle after the war in a conversation with henry kissinger. As the administration went it had been known concerned primarily with the domestic policy. Countrydivision of the that, in a way, has lasted to this day. Tuesday, authors and historians on how america was divided over the war and the conversation with filmmakers can burns and lynn novec. Got four or five decades away when the triangulation can take place and when you can have the kind of distance and perspective necessary not just to make a reactive or simply journalistic response but something that hopefully is greater than the sum of its parts,