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Mr. Flannigan, Chaplain And Mr Lincoln

A program celebrating the centennial of the Civil War. A great battle of the Civil War was for, "Equality Among Men." Mr. Flannagan, a volunteer with a Pennsylvania regiment is desperate for a furlough. Michael Allen was a Jewish chaplain, "With the Heart of an Irishman" who helped him. However, Michael was not an ordained Rabbi and at that time, only Christians were allowed to minister to the soldiers. After drama speaker: Charles Siegel, author of, "Conversations With Lincoln," and monographs on Lincoln and American Jewery During the Civil. This script was previously produced on, "The Eternal Light" on February 12, 1956 (see cat. #111917).

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The Eternal Light was an American radio and television program on the NBC Radio Network, produced in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary, that was broadcast between 1944 and 1989. Featuring interviews, commentary, and award-winning dramas from the perspective of Judaism, it began on radio in 1944 and continued as a weekly radio program through 1989. A 1946 program, for example, dramatized humanitarian Lillian Wald's founding of New York City's Henry Street Settlement in 1895. The May 31, 1959, program featured a tour of the Holy Land narrated by Ralph Bellamy.

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“Mr. Flannigan, Chaplain And Mr Lincoln.” The Eternal Light. Radio broadcast, January 14, 1962.

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