Thank you to those fighting the blaze at St John’s Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square. God bless you.
President Lincoln would walk across the square from the White House to St John’s in the depths of the Civil War and sit in pew 89, at the back washingtonpost.com/local/the-sigh…
In Steven Spielberg’s movie LINCOLN, the Post notes, “the St. John’s bell rings out at the movie’s climax, as the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, is passed.”
“Spielberg wanted to fill the movie with sounds Lincoln would have heard,” a historian for the church told the Post.
“Spielberg wanted to fill the movie with sounds Lincoln would have heard,” a historian for the church told the Post.
