Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson will share the keynote speaker role on November 19, for the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. President Barack Obama will not attend and the Secretary of Interior will represent the administration.
This year’s Dedication Day ceremony will observe the 150th Anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The ceremony takes place at10 a.m. in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and is sponsored by Gettysburg National Military Park, the Gettysburg Foundation, the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania and Gettysburg College.
The event also features the U.S. Marine Band, “President Lincoln’s Own Band” from the movie, Lincoln, Governor Tom Corbett, a reading of the Gettysburg Address by Lincoln portrayer James Getty, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will administer the Oath of Allegiance to sixteen new citizens.
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