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Watch 5 Presidents Recite the Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address marks its 150th anniversary on Nov. 19. #Gettysburg, #Lincoln, #GettysburgAdress, #Illinois, #Presidents

I am 56 years old, and it still gives me chills to read it or hear it read aloud.

The Gettysburg Address turns 150 on Nov. 19. Illinois is celebrating the anniversary in many ways, but the best might be at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, which starts Sunday with the 10th Illinois Cavalry band and continues to the following Sunday, Nov. 24.

You can watch all five living presidents — plus a number of celebrities from all walks of life — recite the 272-word speech in the YouTube video by filmmaker Ken Burns, shown here.

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