Sherlock Holmes and a photograph of Abraham Lincoln

[David Lockmiller]

(11-19-2017 12:38 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  I was watching the movie "Sherlock Holmes and the Pearl of Death" this morning when I noticed in the background of the scene at 221-B Baker Street a framed photograph of President Abraham Lincoln.

I was watching tonight on PBS, Ken Burns' story on Jackie Robinson. At one point in the presentation, there was a photograph of Branch Rickey and and Jackie Robinson shaking hands shortly after Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ken Burns has this habit of panning across photographs with the movie camera. When he did so with this photograph, the camera moved out and to the right from the two shaking hands to show a photograph of President Lincoln high on the wall of Rickey's office behind the two men.

Branch Rickey on Jackie Robinson: "God was with me when I picked Jackie. I don't think any other man could have done what he did those first two or three years."

Jackie Robinson on Branch Rickey: "Branch Rickey did more for African Americans than any white man since Abraham Lincoln."