I Heard Lincoln That Day

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Label: Trans-Radio Recordings

Copied from original narration as recorded February 12, 1938. William Roedel Rathvon, (December 31, 1854 – March 2, 1939), sometimes incorrectly referred to as William V. Rathvon or William V. Rathbone, is the only known eyewitness to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, of the over 10,000 witnesses, to have left an audio recording describing that experience. He made the recording in 1938, a year before his death.