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Young Mr. Lincoln

Academy Award Theater · July 10, 1946 · 29 min · 4,081 words

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A House of Squibb presents Academy Award. Every week, Squibb brings you Hollywood's finest.

The great picture plays, the great actors and actresses, techniques and skills chosen from the honor all of those who have won or been nominated for the famous Golden Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

And now, E.R. Squibbbbinsons, manufacturing chemists to the medical profession since 1858 you the distinguished actor, Henry Fonda, in Young Mr. Lincoln, with Wardbond. Young Mr. Lincoln, as Best Original Story of the Year, was nominated for the 1939 Academy Award.

Mr. Fonda, as Best Actor of the Year, was nominated for the 1940 Academy Award. This is a story about a long, lean lawyer named Abraham Lincoln, a young man full of drawl stories and deep quick laughter. A story of Abe Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois.

A fine summer afternoon at the fair is over. The barbecue fires glow red now in the darkness. And families are rounding up their children and seeking their wagons to the lazy ride back to town.

Suddenly a woman screams. Scream. A rush of running men, blood spilled on a dark meadow. A hushed whisper of murder. The pioneer mother's handing stock against the breeze, staring at her two sons. Two boys suddenly strangers, standing over the body of a third lying step.

Death had come, under the dark skies of Illinois. He's dead. Who done it? fellow sheriff them clay brothers they was fighting with this year scrub white and they cut him there's the knife they done it with which one of you clay boys done this me no me I want the truth now which one of you cut him I did that

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