On this date in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered "a little speech", as he later called it, at the dedication of a military cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Only a few hundred words delivered in only a few minutes.
But the Gettysburg Address became one of the most famous speeches in American history.
Now just to go from the sublime to the ridiculous, it was also on this date but in the year 1975 that one of my favorite movies was first shown in movie theaters.
The great Jack Nicholson won his first Academy Award for his starring role in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
All of which just goes to prove that you'll never know what one finds in these Oddball Observations!
I loved "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." I read the book also.
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge fan of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest too! A timely movie perhaps.
ReplyDeleteI prefer Abe to Jack, but that's just me.
ReplyDeleteI read the book sometime before the movie, and I had the privilege to meet Kesey twice. I did like the movie, but I kept getting stuck with the character Nicholson played was not anything like McMurphy in the book. McMurphy was a big, tough guy, red hair. And just could never get over that. I thought other characters were well cast though.
ReplyDeleteGood curve ball...it's only a short drive from Gettsyburg to the current Cuckoos Nest at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. We assume Nurse Ratchett will arrive soon to clean out the wards
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