Robert Todd Lincoln (Lincoln's son) saw Massey portray his father in the 1920s and said Massey sounded almost exactly like him. So I guess we now know just about how Abraham Lincoln sounded.
Early in Raymond Massey's career President Lincoln's son Robert saw him perform and made a comment about how much Massey sounded like his father. For the record, President Lincoln, the emancipator of the slaves, was a Republican.
@@nessesaryschoolthing That assumption pretty much goes hand in hand with the assertion that Republicans are now all a bunch of racists, so yeah, you did rather imply it.
every man or women has the natural right to eat the bread from their own toil and labor and not to ask the leave of someone else. as the slave has too. beautifully put cause i am an african american and my people at one time were slaves in america the land of the supposedly free. slavery was americas greatest and original sin that paid the price for this sin that almost tore this country apart and led to the deaths of 650,000 soldiers in the american civil war in which my ancestors fought on the side of the union and was part of the 23rd colored infantry that chased corned and led to the surrender robert e lee army at appomattox
Raymond Massey also played Abe Lincoln in the stage play Abe Lincoln in Illinois (by the great playwright Robert Sherwood). That play ran for about a year and a half (in NY and then Chicago) and was a big success, then followed up by the movie based on the same material. Several fine actors (including Daniel Day Lewis who was also excellent) have played Lincoln over the years, but Massey's interpretation really stands out. I'm tempted to say they don't make films like this any more, and Spielberg's Lincoln was very good also, but Abe Lincoln in Illinois is one of the great films (and doesn't take too many liberties with the history).
Henry Fonda made a pretty darn good Lincoln, but I had never seen this portrayal. I think Young Mr Lincoln, this film and Lincoln would make a good trilogy of films to teach young people about Lincoln through media.
Actually, I think it's been pretty much established that the real Lincoln had a high, nasal voice! I can't imagine him delivering the Gettysburg Address and sounding like Gilbert Gottfried...
i did a lot of googling, lots or research... from what i learned from historians that studied the comments of people living at the time that heard his voice, heard his speeches, he was more of a tenor with a bit of an accent that was a blend of indiana and kentucky. his voice stood out and moved people. lincoln didn't pace around the podium speaking, he stood tall and let his words and conviction do the emoting. it's said that his son, todd, saw raymond massey in a play sometime in the 20s (before massey did his role as lincoln in the film) and said massey sounded like his father. so i'd have to say raymond massey nailed abe lincoln. i was moved by his portrayal. i'm a young women from california and most of my heroes are other women that have accomplished things in life... but abraham lincoln and john f. kennedy are 2 men from history i look up to and admire. lincoln most of all! oh, and nice finger to the snooping nsa at the end of video! what lincoln had to say in that speech is just as relevant today with all the freedoms we take for granted being eroded and trampled upon. really enjoyed your video ;)
History is a Good thing to learn . It can be complex at times. Tracking views and fact can be interesting as a Board game .Puzzle pieces . But your going run up against the ones that believe there the only ones with there view. I never Follow Lincoln to much but . He is not a bad man to follow the haters will say he did not enough to move black America forward bull crap. Same For those that dis like President Washington if you remember around june or july I posted Pictures of Lawn Jockey . It was part of Under ground railroad . But it was if you read around George Washington Tribute to the man the held ropes to the horses some have wrote . You know what live in there time then you can talk if they did enough . Many a White family put there lives on the line for Black america ....Many a Black American has trashed White America how soon they forget those that sacrificed there families and lives . To help write a wrong done to Black America .Now Dani I calming down just you know I hate racism on both side of the fence .I have a view and had a view on Ferguson Missouri Personal I'm ashamed of what taken place all around America ...I will use Darren Wilson words maybe if Mike Brown had gotten on that sidewalk he might been alive . Mike Brown Chose to act a fool sadly he paid dearly . For his mis takes ..I feel sorry for his Family but just like White Police man gunned down in Akron Ohio by a Black Man . No riots or anything about him not one Black of person importance said there Sorry Publicly or felt for his family. So when I look and see little thing in history that have made to make thing better for all people . I love it one sided Justice sickens me ..So Baby Girl Keep studying and Change the world around you . You Make world better for some one some were un known to you . . Your a Gem in the World you inspire others .
Danika Stenvaag Turned this up on the web: If anyone had an educated guess as to how it sounded though, it would be Holzer, who has written 40 books on Lincoln and the Civil War. The author has pored over reports of Lincoln’s public appearances on speaking tours, eyewitness accounts told to Lincoln’s law partner William Herndon and newspaper commentaries about the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and, surprisingly, he says, one of the only things that can be said with certainty is that Lincoln was a tenor. “Lincoln’s voice, as far as period descriptions go, was a little shriller, a little higher,” says Holzer. It would be a mistake to say that his voice was squeaky though. “People said that his voice carried into crowds beautifully. Just because the tone was high doesn’t mean it wasn’t far-reaching,” he says. When Holzer was researching his 2004 book Lincoln at Cooper Union, he noticed an interesting consistency in the accounts of those who attended Lincoln’s speaking tour in February and March 1860. “They all seem to say, for the first ten minutes I couldn’t believe the way he looked, the way he sounded, his accent. But after ten minutes, the flash of his eyes, the ease of his presentation overcame all doubts, and I was enraptured,” says Holzer. “I am paraphrasing, but there is ten minutes of saying, what the heck is that, and then all of a sudden it’s the ideas that supersede whatever flaws there are.” Lincoln’s voice needed a little time to warm up, and Holzer refers to this ten-minute mark as the “magical moment when the voice fell into gear.” At the end of the day, it's WHAT he had to say that matters, not the delivery. The reason I first posted this clip was because the CONTENT resonated so powerfully even now, a century and a half later.
Indoctrination by the same forces that imported slavery from the Continent of Africa to here in America. The Constitution was a threat to imperialism anywhere in the world & because America couldn't be defeated from without & be won over in an outright war, thus determined the mercenary money-groups in Europe were forced to exercise overt strategies & fit the merchant ships from Londen, Ireland, ect to sail to Africa & purchase human cargo & deliver to America. Certainly the minions of the usurpers were posited in America to conduct & fulfil the purchase agreements within her borders & the slaves were bought inset international waters & transported, into national realm, as human cargo, when brought into the USA, as property to subvert The Bill of Rights by-passing The Declaration of Independence declaring all men are created equal & endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable Rights such as Life, Liberty & the pursuit of Happiness. The imperial powers in Europe intended, thru the organized slave trade , to develop a caste system in America & eventually annul The Constitution thru rendering its efficacy for Freedom to apply only in degrees to certain groups in various ways, a divide in conquer tactic. A heirarchy established instead of a Free Republic of Liberty by Law...whereby even the magistrates must obey the rules decreed by themselves, as representatives the nation. Guaranteeing Justice for all & personal Independence, as Freedom. Even today the imperialist thwart true Freedom portrayed confusedly , as license or exploitation of humanity, abortion being but one violation of the misuse of so-called Rights maligned in meaning. Slavery delivered to the doorstep of America & beyond...imported intent was to effectively transpire null & void The Constitution, especially The Bill of Rights/ Declaration of Independence, as an impotent document to effect for True Liberty & Justice for all, by creating a caste system or heirarchy. Lincoln's perception of evil abroad was profound & he understood this all to well the threat that existed & responded accordingly. The very reason why his legacy is attacked today, by the woke insignia covert soldiers at war upon American Principles & himself The Great Liberator portrayed a tyrant, because he withstood the forces of oppression then..of which we are facing now. God speed the oppresso'rs destruction.
Ever notice how similar Bill Nye the science guy and Abe Lincoln look? Both tall and slim with the same faces, mannerisms, preferences, movements. Both share the same ideals, politics, world view. And both loved science and its applications for bettering the world. Abe Lincoln died at the Ford Theater in Washington D.C. and Bill Nye was born in Washington D.C. 90 years later. (Annnd... Bill Nye wears a lot of bow ties like old Abe did, too, ha ha)... Just for kicks and grins, wouldn't it be wild if Bill Nye was the reincarnation of Abe Lincoln? Well... I can dream! Here's a picture of the two side by side: starcrush.com/files/2013/02/Bill-Nye-Abraham-Lincoln.jpg
This was a great film. It made me realize that Lincoln was catapulted to the presidency, as a Dark Horse third party candidate, who generally never win. The establishment wanted a fall guy, so they chose a commoner to take the brunt of the anger against emancipation. They showed their contempt by putting his image on a copper penny. But at least a great statue was erected to his memory at the Lincoln Memorial on the Potomac.
They chose unwisely, for he diminished the oppressors, as rulers over the earth then, as now. Abraham Lincoln found in The Constitution the power needed to protect the Republic then & to be used now.
... did you even listen to the same speech? The dude is talking about capital and labor and minority liberation. Lincoln, while not exactly a Marxist, is speaking like a proto socialist. Point to me an example of Trump eloquently declaring that labor above all is superior to capital. Hell, show me any president since FDR who spoke like that.
@@LEEboneisDaMan Lincoln himself was not a Marxist, but Republican party itself had a lot of communists from German wave of immigration. And yeap, Marx himself was a journalist of the republican paper and strong supporter of Lincoln during Civil War. Kinda ironic.
@@LEEboneisDaManLincoln is speaking of Justice towards all segments the nation. Empowering the common man not to rule, but to keep the balance of power evenly distributed overall.
Actually addressing the issue instead of just blaming his opponent for it! Bravo.
You don't see that any more.
@6:55 "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Hey curb your enthusiasm
thank you matey, I was looking for that! By the way, LD's impression was actually pretty good!
Massey is the ultimate Lincoln, even more so than any modern actor has tried today.
Yeah , I think so too .Just his accent to Chicagoan. They said Lincoln talked more country .
Robert Todd Lincoln (Lincoln's son) saw Massey portray his father in the 1920s and said Massey sounded almost exactly like him. So I guess we now know just about how Abraham Lincoln sounded.
@@mariocisneros911 Pretty good for a Canadian man Raymond Massey.
Agreed...
Early in Raymond Massey's career President Lincoln's son Robert saw him perform and made a comment about how much Massey sounded like his father. For the record, President Lincoln, the emancipator of the slaves, was a Republican.
Indeed. And if he brought up the same rhetoric in a Republican convention today, he'd be booed off the stage.
@@nessesaryschoolthing Sorry, I hate to break it to you, but no, the parties did not switch.
@@Hibernicus1968 Not even what I said.
@@nessesaryschoolthing That assumption pretty much goes hand in hand with the assertion that Republicans are now all a bunch of racists, so yeah, you did rather imply it.
every man or women has the natural right to eat the bread from their own toil and labor and not to ask the leave of someone else. as the slave has too. beautifully put cause i am an african american and my people at one time were slaves in america the land of the supposedly free. slavery was americas greatest and original sin that paid the price for this sin that almost tore this country apart and led to the deaths of 650,000 soldiers in the american civil war in which my ancestors fought on the side of the union and was part of the 23rd colored infantry that chased corned and led to the surrender robert e lee army at appomattox
RAYMOND MASSEY IS A LIVING LEGEND!!!
Someway , Raymond Massey is related to Lincoln and also related to the Masseys of Massey-Ferguson farm machinery
Massey was a great Lincoln.
Raymond Massey also played Abe Lincoln in the stage play Abe Lincoln in Illinois (by the great playwright Robert Sherwood). That play ran for about a year and a half (in NY and then Chicago) and was a big success, then followed up by the movie based on the same material. Several fine actors (including Daniel Day Lewis who was also excellent) have played Lincoln over the years, but Massey's interpretation really stands out. I'm tempted to say they don't make films like this any more, and Spielberg's Lincoln was very good also, but Abe Lincoln in Illinois is one of the great films (and doesn't take too many liberties with the history).
Henry Fonda made a pretty darn good Lincoln, but I had never seen this portrayal. I think Young Mr Lincoln, this film and Lincoln would make a good trilogy of films to teach young people about Lincoln through media.
Yes, it would be great for parents to watch one of these with their kids on Presidents Day.
Astounding
that was a great movie!
Massey nails it! Great performance..
I love history and I look up to Lincoln. this guy sounds like Lincoln!
Massey come in every color of the book must been very big family line at one time .
Actually, I think it's been pretty much established that the real Lincoln had a high, nasal voice! I can't imagine him delivering the Gettysburg Address and sounding like Gilbert Gottfried...
i did a lot of googling, lots or research... from what i learned from historians that studied the comments of people living at the time that heard his voice, heard his speeches, he was more of a tenor with a bit of an accent that was a blend of indiana and kentucky. his voice stood out and moved people. lincoln didn't pace around the podium speaking, he stood tall and let his words and conviction do the emoting. it's said that his son, todd, saw raymond massey in a play sometime in the 20s (before massey did his role as lincoln in the film) and said massey sounded like his father. so i'd have to say raymond massey nailed abe lincoln. i was moved by his portrayal. i'm a young women from california and most of my heroes are other women that have accomplished things in life... but abraham lincoln and john f. kennedy are 2 men from history i look up to and admire. lincoln most of all! oh, and nice finger to the snooping nsa at the end of video! what lincoln had to say in that speech is just as relevant today with all the freedoms we take for granted being eroded and trampled upon. really enjoyed your video ;)
History is a Good thing to learn . It can be complex at times. Tracking views and fact can be interesting as a Board game .Puzzle pieces . But your going run up against the ones that believe there the only ones with there view. I never Follow Lincoln to much but . He is not a bad man to follow the haters will say he did not enough to move black America forward bull crap. Same For those that dis like President Washington if you remember around june or july I posted Pictures of Lawn Jockey . It was part of Under ground railroad . But it was if you read around George Washington Tribute to the man the held ropes to the horses some have wrote . You know what live in there time then you can talk if they did enough . Many a White family put there lives on the line for Black america ....Many a Black American has trashed White America how soon they forget those that sacrificed there families and lives . To help write a wrong done to Black America .Now Dani I calming down just you know I hate racism on both side of the fence .I have a view and had a view on Ferguson Missouri Personal I'm ashamed of what taken place all around America ...I will use Darren Wilson words maybe if Mike Brown had gotten on that sidewalk he might been alive . Mike Brown Chose to act a fool sadly he paid dearly . For his mis takes ..I feel sorry for his Family but just like White Police man gunned down in Akron Ohio by a Black Man . No riots or anything about him not one Black of person importance said there Sorry Publicly or felt for his family. So when I look and see little thing in history that have made to make thing better for all people . I love it one sided Justice sickens me ..So Baby Girl Keep studying and Change the world around you . You Make world better for some one some were un known to you . . Your a Gem in the World you inspire others .
Danika Stenvaag
Turned this up on the web:
If anyone had an educated guess as to how it sounded though, it would be Holzer, who has written 40 books on Lincoln and the Civil War. The author has pored over reports of Lincoln’s public appearances on speaking tours, eyewitness accounts told to Lincoln’s law partner William Herndon and newspaper commentaries about the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and, surprisingly, he says, one of the only things that can be said with certainty is that Lincoln was a tenor.
“Lincoln’s voice, as far as period descriptions go, was a little shriller, a little higher,” says Holzer. It would be a mistake to say that his voice was squeaky though. “People said that his voice carried into crowds beautifully. Just because the tone was high doesn’t mean it wasn’t far-reaching,” he says.
When Holzer was researching his 2004 book Lincoln at Cooper Union, he noticed an interesting consistency in the accounts of those who attended Lincoln’s speaking tour in February and March 1860. “They all seem to say, for the first ten minutes I couldn’t believe the way he looked, the way he sounded, his accent. But after ten minutes, the flash of his eyes, the ease of his presentation overcame all doubts, and I was enraptured,” says Holzer. “I am paraphrasing, but there is ten minutes of saying, what the heck is that, and then all of a sudden it’s the ideas that supersede whatever flaws there are.” Lincoln’s voice needed a little time to warm up, and Holzer refers to this ten-minute mark as the “magical moment when the voice fell into gear.”
At the end of the day, it's WHAT he had to say that matters, not the delivery.
The reason I first posted this clip was because the CONTENT resonated so powerfully even now, a century and a half later.
The Best!
He does look like he could be Daniel Day Lewis’s dad...
Larry David brought me here.
How can people in 2020 be tearing down statues of this man! What a disgrace!
Indoctrination by the same forces that imported slavery from the Continent of Africa to here in America.
The Constitution was a threat to imperialism anywhere in the world & because America couldn't be defeated from without & be won over in an outright war, thus determined the mercenary money-groups in Europe were forced to exercise overt strategies & fit the merchant ships from Londen, Ireland, ect to sail to Africa & purchase human cargo & deliver to America. Certainly the minions of the usurpers were posited in America to conduct & fulfil the purchase agreements within her borders & the slaves were bought inset international waters & transported, into national realm, as human cargo, when brought into the USA, as property to subvert The Bill of Rights by-passing The Declaration of Independence declaring all men are created equal & endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable Rights such as Life, Liberty & the pursuit of Happiness.
The imperial powers in Europe intended, thru the organized slave trade , to develop a caste system in America & eventually annul The Constitution thru rendering its efficacy for Freedom to apply only in degrees to certain groups in various ways, a divide in conquer tactic. A heirarchy established instead of a Free Republic of Liberty by Law...whereby even the magistrates must obey the rules decreed by themselves, as representatives the nation. Guaranteeing Justice for all & personal Independence, as Freedom.
Even today the imperialist thwart true Freedom portrayed confusedly , as license or exploitation of humanity, abortion being but one violation of the misuse of so-called Rights maligned in meaning.
Slavery delivered to the doorstep of America & beyond...imported intent was to effectively transpire null & void The Constitution, especially The Bill of Rights/ Declaration of Independence, as an impotent document to effect for True Liberty & Justice for all, by creating a caste system or heirarchy.
Lincoln's perception of evil abroad was profound & he understood this all to well the threat that existed & responded accordingly.
The very reason why his legacy is attacked today, by the woke insignia covert soldiers at war upon American Principles & himself The Great Liberator portrayed a tyrant, because he withstood the forces of oppression then..of which we are facing now. God speed the oppresso'rs destruction.
Larry David brought me here
Ever notice how similar Bill Nye the science guy and Abe Lincoln look? Both tall and slim with the same faces, mannerisms, preferences, movements. Both share the same ideals, politics, world view. And both loved science and its applications for bettering the world. Abe Lincoln died at the Ford Theater in Washington D.C. and Bill Nye was born in Washington D.C. 90 years later. (Annnd... Bill Nye wears a lot of bow ties like old Abe did, too, ha ha)... Just for kicks and grins, wouldn't it be wild if Bill Nye was the reincarnation of Abe Lincoln? Well... I can dream! Here's a picture of the two side by side: starcrush.com/files/2013/02/Bill-Nye-Abraham-Lincoln.jpg
Danika Stenvaag Bill Nye is nothing like Abe Lincoln.
They favor each other a lot but Bill doesn't look nearly as old school as ole Abe.
DR. ABRAHAM LINCOLN-WILL LIVE FOREVER!
This was a great film. It made me realize that Lincoln was catapulted to the presidency, as a Dark Horse third party candidate, who generally never win. The establishment wanted a fall guy, so they chose a commoner to take the brunt of the anger against emancipation. They showed their contempt by putting his image on a copper penny. But at least a great statue was erected to his memory at the Lincoln Memorial on the Potomac.
They chose unwisely, for he diminished the oppressors, as rulers over the earth then, as now. Abraham Lincoln found in The Constitution the power needed to protect the Republic then & to be used now.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. the finale is funny !
I’m here because of Larry David 😂
Biggest mystery why Raymond Massey did not get an oscar for this role is a mystery that tcm viewers cannot figure out!
Why does Diane feinstein want to remove abe lincoln! That would be stupid!
This movie portrays Lincoln being treated the same way Donald Trump has been treated. God bless Trump and keep him safe.
... did you even listen to the same speech? The dude is talking about capital and labor and minority liberation. Lincoln, while not exactly a Marxist, is speaking like a proto socialist.
Point to me an example of Trump eloquently declaring that labor above all is superior to capital. Hell, show me any president since FDR who spoke like that.
@@LEEboneisDaMan
Lincoln himself was not a Marxist, but Republican party itself had a lot of communists from German wave of immigration. And yeap, Marx himself was a journalist of the republican paper and strong supporter of Lincoln during Civil War. Kinda ironic.
@@LEEboneisDaManLincoln is speaking of Justice towards all segments the nation. Empowering the common man not to rule, but to keep the balance of power evenly distributed overall.