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🗓️ 18 February 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind, |
0:15.0 | a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. |
0:19.0 | That's the signpost up ahead, Your next stop, the Twilight Zone. |
0:21.6 | The... A brief history lesson before we enter the Twilight Zone tonight. |
0:47.3 | It's a lesson that I don't suppose American listeners will particularly need, but the rest of us might need a little refresher. |
0:57.0 | I'm not going to dwell on it too long, but for those of us outside the US who may not have learned about Abraham Lincoln in school, |
1:07.0 | as time goes on and different generations are maybe a little less interested in history |
1:14.8 | some might actually believe them to be a work of fiction Abraham Lincoln vampire |
1:20.7 | hunter that sort of thing but he was the 16th president of the United States of |
1:26.6 | America his achievements were many president of the United States of America. His achievements were many, |
1:30.3 | one of the most important being that he abolished slavery. He was born on February 12, 1809, |
1:37.3 | and he died on April 15th, 1865. As Lincoln was sitting watching a play in a theatre an actor by the name of John Wilkes |
1:48.8 | booth who was a confederate spy came up behind him and shot him in the head then made his |
1:56.0 | escape now that really is just Abraham Lincoln in brief because in a way who he was and what he did doesn't really come into this episode of the Twilight Zone that much. |
2:08.3 | He's almost pretty much a device. |
2:12.1 | It could have been any person in history who was assassinated. |
2:15.6 | Could have been JFK, could have been been anyone they just needed to go back in |
2:20.3 | time and try to stop something so who he wasn't what he did becomes kind of secondary to what the |
2:28.8 | episode tries to do so let's get into it and see exactly what I mean by that. |
2:38.6 | In tonight's episode of the Twilight Zone, back there. |
2:40.3 | What's your point? |
2:43.7 | That if it were possible for a person to go back in time, |
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