Gettysburg Address sesquicentennial activities are thick on the ground currently, with the anniversary next Tuesday. None will be more meaningful than Ken Burns's. He's set up a website called Learn The Address where he has posted videos of various well-known people reading or reciting it. Above is the extremely moving mashup version he made from editing together phrases from 25 different videos, including those of all five living U.S. presidents.
Best of all, though, is that the website is set up to collect and showcase Gettysburg Address videos from anyone who wants to send one in: "a national effort to encourage everyone in America to video record themselves reading or reciting the speech," as the site puts it. The instructions on how to submit your video are here.
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