FILE – This June 7, 2012 file photo shows director Steven Spielberg at the AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Shirley MacLaine at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif. Spielberg will make the keynote remarks at the 149th commemoration of âœThe Gettysburg Address,â while his new movie about President Abraham Lincoln is in theaters. Spielberg’s speech on Monday, Nov. 19, at Soldier’s National Cemetery in Gettysburg will be accompanied by a recitation of the famous speech by a Lincoln re-enactor. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, file)
FILE – This June 7, 2012 file photo shows director Steven Spielberg at the AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Shirley MacLaine at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif. Spielberg will make the keynote remarks at the 149th commemoration of âœThe Gettysburg Address,â while his new movie about President Abraham Lincoln is in theaters. Spielberg’s speech on Monday, Nov. 19, at Soldier’s National Cemetery in Gettysburg will be accompanied by a recitation of the famous speech by a Lincoln re-enactor. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, file)
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) â” Sixteen new Americans are being minted in Gettysburg, welcomed by Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg on the 149th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s famous address.
The director of the new film about the 16th president is giving the keynote address at the Soldier’s National Cemetery, accompanied by a Lincoln re-enactor reciting the “Gettysburg Address.”
Citizenship candidates from 11 countries are to take the oath of allegiance.
Gettysburg is where the U.S. military was able to stop an invasion of the North by Confederate troops under Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Lincoln gave the three-minute speech, which famously begins with the phrase, “four score and seven years ago,” at the dedication of the cemetery four months after the battle.
Spielberg’s “Lincoln” concentrates on the period leading up to the president’s 1865 assassination.
