Structured entries
- GORE VIDAL'S LINCOLN
3/27/88
w/ Sam Waterston; Mary Tyler Moore
From the Controversial Bestseller. The Man. The Woman. The War. As You've Never Seen Them.
- THE LONG LINE OF LINCOLNS.
(1987)
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
(1939)
w/ Walter Huston
(BW). First 'talkie' directed by D. W. Griffith.
- YOUNG MR. LINCOLN.
(1939)
w/ Henry Fonda
(BW). (edited)
- ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS.
(1940)
w/ Raymond Massey; Ruth Gordon
(BW)
- TENNESSEE JOHNSON.
(1942)
w/ Van Heflin
(BW). (Lincoln's successor)
- THEY'VE KILLED PRES. LINCOLN.
(David L. Wolper Presents)
- TODAY: James McPherson's book.
2/12/91
- LINCOLN
12/26/92
w/ James Earl Jones; Jason Robards (as Abraham Lincoln); Glenn Close; Dabney Coleman; Richard Dreyfuss; Burgess Meredith; Cliff Robertson; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Maureen Stapleton; Rod Steiger; Oprah Winfrey
Hosted by James Earl Jones and featuring the voices of. Through an extraordinary set of rare photographs, TV reveals the many faces of a President.
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A New Birth OF Freedom.
2/25/93
(Documentary)
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1200. LINCOLN
A DAY WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
THE PERFECT TRIBUTE. 9/21/91
LINCOLN: TRIAL BY FIRE. (1973)
(David L. Wolper Presents)
APPOINTMENT WITH DESTINY: Lincoln.
IN SEARCH OF: The Lincoln Conspiracy.
(John Wilks Booth)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A NEW BIRTH
OF FREEDOM. 8/17/93
1201. From the Controversial Bestseller
GORE VIDAL'S
LINCOLN
The Man. The Woman. The War.
As You've Never Seen Them.
3/27/88
3/28/88
w/Sam Waterston & Mary Tyler Moore.
THE LONG LINE OF LINCOLNS.(1987)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. (BW)(1939)
First 'talkie' directed by D. W.
Griffith. w/Walter Huston.
YOUNG MR. LINCOLN. (BW)(1939)
w/Henry Fonda. (edited)
1202. ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS.(BW)(1940)
w/Raymond Massey & Ruth Gordon.
TENNESSEE JOHNSON. (BW)(1942)
(Lincoln's successor) w/Van Heflin.
THEY'VE KILLED PRES. LINCOLN.
(David L. Wolper Presents)
TODAY: James McPherson's book. 2/12/91
Ad Lincoln
Lincoln in 1860.
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1203. Lincoln 12/26/92
12/27/92
Hosted by James Earl Jones and featuring the voices of
Jason Robards (as Abraham Lincoln), Glenn Close,
Dabney Coleman, Richard Dreyfuss, Burgess Meredith,
Cliff Robertson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maureen Stapleton,
Rod Steiger, Oprah Winfrey and many more.
Through an extraordinary set of rare photographs,
TV reveals the many faces of a President
W hen ABC brings to prime
time a two-part documentary
telling Abraham Lin-
coln's life story, the one fact
you'll never see belongs to
the man who made the special possible.
"Lincoln," which airs Saturday
Dec 26 (8:30 PM (EST)
and Sunday, Dec 27
(5:30 PM), uses its own
source material a re-
markable collection
of photographs as-
sembled by New York textile merchant
Frederick Hill Meserve.
Meserve was born in 1865—the same
year Lincoln was assassinated. The son
of a Union officer in the Civil War, he
grew up determined to fill out his father's
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY
LINCOLN IN AN ILLUSTRATED ACCOMPLISHMENT
ALFRED H. BLOOM
AND THE DETAILED EARTH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAS
A PORTRAIT WITH PATH-FINDING ACTOR COMMISSIONER
Gen. George B. McClellan FACING LADY
reminiscences of the conflict
and of the President who
was perhaps its ultimate
casualty.
In 1867, Meserve
bought his first pho-
tographs, paying
$1.10 at auction
(worth around
$19 today) for a
brown-paper bun-
dle of about 100
pictures—many
by celebrated 19th-
century photogra-
pher Mathew Brady.
Lincoln always stores
never include in the early
days of photography, subjects
"as if it did for a picture
Lincoln's personal portrait pho-
tographer.
Meserve became the
country's first great col-
lector of photography.
He searched endless
secondhand stores,
visited auction room
after auction room,
He browsed family
albums and scoured
warehouses as he
found, assembled,
and preserved for the
nation a visual history
of Lincoln and his
times. Immediately after
the Civil War, many pho-
tographs were discarded as
America tried to forget. But
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A New Birth
OF Freedom. (Documentary) 2/25/93
Six score and nine years later his words speak
to us still. Hear today's leaders reflect upon one
man's vision of racial equality.
Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom