Abraham Lincoln - 2nd inaugural speech

After four years of leading the Union through a bloody and destructive civil war, Abraham Lincoln was elected to a second term as president, an endorsement by the country that he should finish the job. On 4th March 1865, at his second inauguration, he gave a short speech to the assembly. A few weeks later, he was killed by John Wilks Booth at Ford's Theatre. A few weeks after that, the war ended.

Introduction by Edward Harbour.