According to a box now on the Ken Burns
website learntheaddress.org, Obama was specifically asked to recite one
of the other versions of the Gettysburg Address that does not include
the phrase “under God.”
But it seems that explanation has been
either added in response to the budding controversy or moved so as to
appear more prominently. A cached version of the page from Friday afternoon shows no such explanation:
TheBlaze has reached out to Burns in an attempt to clarify but has not received a response.
As TheBlaze reported last year,
there are several versions (up to 10) of the address. Some of them do
not include the phrase “under God.” However, the commonly accepted
Associated Press version does include it.
“The inclusion of God in the speech is perhaps the most significant difference among the versions,” the National Constitution Center says. “The
fifth version of the speech, which was signed and dated by Lincoln, was
considered the ‘final’ version and included ‘under God’ in its last
sentence.”
Original story below
Nov. 19 marks the 150th anniversary of
President Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address, the two-minute
speech delivered at the dedication of the national cemetery where
thousands of Americans died fighting the Civil War. But according to a
video of President Obama reciting the infamous words, “God” isn’t in it.
Obama and several other famous faces
(from politics, entertainment and business) recorded versions of the
address for filmmaker Ken Burns and his project “Learn The Address” created for PBS. But, in the video that Obama recorded on his own, an important word was omitted from the text: God.
WMAL’s Chris Plante noticed that the president dropped “God” and his crew also checked the other recordings.
Plante says every single famous face in the Ken Burns video recited the
speech and included God, and his team put together a sampling of other
people involved in the project using “God”:
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