Lincoln Assassination Movie Depictions

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One of Edward G's better movies IMO!!

My favorite depiction of the assassination is in The Prisoner Of Shark Island. John Ford did such a good visual of Lincoln's hand gripping the playbill after the shot, and following that with Abe sitting in the chair, and the gauze slowly covering the scene.....Ford sure knew how to make a movie!!

BTW, the best John Ford story I ever heard went like this: Ford, whose real name was John Feeney, was talking to one of his uncles that fought in the Civil War. Ford asked the uncle, "What was the batttle of Gettysburg like??"
His uncle looked at young John and replied,
" It was horrible! I couldn't get a drink for three days!!!"