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Old Time Radio Drama — Mercury Theater On The Air: "Abraham Lincoln" (1938) | Full Episode
Orson Welles takes the role of Abraham Lincoln in this sweeping Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of John Drinkwater's celebrated stage play, enriched with Lincoln's own speeches and letters. Moving through seven scenes from Lincoln's election to his assassination at Ford's Theatre, the production captures his moral resolve on emancipation, his fraught counsel with Grant and Lee, and the weight of a nation's fate resting on one man's conscience. This is radio drama at its most ambitious — a CBS broadcast from August 1938, featuring the core ensemble that would go on to make Citizen Kane…
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