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Re: Civil War - fact or fiction



I'm sure Ken Burns did use actual film footage.  Every semester several of
our students mentions that Lincoln was shot in a movie theater - maybe
that's what he was watching!


----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Moser <dennism@LIBRARY.TMC.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: Civil War - fact or fiction


> But, gosh and gee whiz, didn't Ken Burns use actual film footage of the
> Civil War in his special? (AAAaaaaiiiiiieeeeeee!!!!)
>
> Dennis "Only grinning because he overheard someone actually say it" Moser,
> MILS, Web Librarian
> John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center
> Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
> 1133 M. D. Anderson Blvd, Houston, TX 77030-2809
> dennism@library.tmc.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: O'Brien, Jeff (Clerks) <Jeff.OBrien@CITY.SASKATOON.SK.CA>
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Civil War - fact or fiction
>
>
> >I thought the original post *was* fairly funny, but what what I thought
> most
> >interesting about it is that it demonstrates pretty clearly the kind of
> >traps that the internet lays for the unwary researcher.
> >
> >I assume that none of those things in the original post were true.
(Except
> >for watching the Ken Burns special on the History Channel my knowledge of
> >the US Civil War is pretty limited. Benedict Arnold riding up San Juan
Hill
> >or something, right?) But lots of them sounded like they could have been
> >true and if I was a high school person using the Net to write an essay
and
> >came across a site with this stuff I would probably take it as gospel.
> >
> >just my .02
> >
> >
> >Jeff "just kidding about benedict arnold" O'Brien
> >
> >
> >> ----------
> >> From:         Edwin G. Frank[SMTP:efrank@anduril.memphis.edu]
> >> Sent:         Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:09 PM
> >> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> >> Subject:      Re: Civil War
> >>
> >> I'd appreciate this sort of nonsense-- if it was actually funny . . .
> >>
> >> Ed Frank
> >>
> >>
> >
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