Episode Details

The Mercury Theatre on the Air tells the story of Abraham Lincoln. This episode aired August 15, 1938.

Adapted from the play by John Drinkwater, supplemented by excerpts from Lincoln's speeches and letters.

Cast:

• Orson Welles (President Abraham Lincoln);
• Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Marry Ann Todd Lincoln);
• Ray Collins (General Ulysses S. Grant);
• Edward Jerome (General Robert E. Lee);
• George Coulouris (Hook);
• Joseph Cotten (William H. Seward);
• Carl Frank (Winfield Scott);
• Karl Swenson (John Hay);
• William Alland (Dennis)

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