Live-tweeting the #Gettysburg Address
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most famous speeches in American history.
Here, 150 years later, is how the iconic speech might've been tweeted — with the requisite hashtags and retweets — had Lincoln delivered it today.
We're going to be live-tweeting the dedication of #Gettysburg today. Wi-fi is a bit spotty here. Also, it's 1863.
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
BREAKING: President Lincoln has arrived via train from Washington. #Seward is with him. #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
IMHO this Everett guy is going on FOREVER. #boring #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
#BREAKING: @PresidentLincoln is at the podium. Livestream here: http://t.co/grGWfy7aqJ #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
Anyone else think #POTUS is looking paler than usual? #Smallpox? #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty," #Lincoln says. #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
"We are engaged in a great civil war," Lincoln says, testing our nation. #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
President Lincoln not using teleprompter here. #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
Lincoln: "It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this." +1. #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
POTUS vows to not "dedicate," "consecrate," "hallow" this ground. #Lincoln #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what soldiers did." #humble #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
FYI: #4score is now trending in the United States. #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
But he's not even done yet!!! RT: @WashingtonPost Full text of President Lincoln's #Gettysburg address: http://t.co/jmcpy7kcZU
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
RT: @MeetThePress President Lincoln to sit down with #MTP for an #EXCLUSIVE interview Sunday. Also: @SenJohnMcCain on drones.
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
Lincoln now talking about "great" unfinished task: make sure the dead "not have died in vain." Crowd applauds. #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
"This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people ..." (1/2)
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
"... shall not perish from the earth." (2/2) #Lincoln #4score #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
Wait, that's IT?!?!?! #Lincoln #Gettysburg
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
RT: @Buzzfeed 27 Insane Gettysburg Gifs: http://t.co/ChIIfeGzKw
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 19, 2013
