On the 204th anniversary of his birth, here is a re-enactment of Abraham Lincoln's brief Second Inaugural Address, delivered on March 4th, 1865, less than six weeks before he was felled by an assassin's bullet.
If only blue and grey partisans had taken Lincoln's words urging reconciliation to heart. Instead we had twenty years of antagonistic Reconstruction and nearly a century of Jim Crow laws.
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