Saving Lincoln

Saving Lincoln is a dramatic biographical film released on February 13, 2013. It tells the littleknown story of Ward Hill Lamon, who was Abraham Lincolns law partner in Danville, Illinois from 1852 until 1857. Lamon accompanied Lincoln to Washington and served as the Presidents main bodyguard during the Civil War, thwarting several assassination attempts while holding the post of US Marshal. Lincoln and Lamon were close friends. Lincoln sent Lamon to Richmond, Virginia, on Reconstruction business a few days before April 14, 1865, the day that John Wilkes Booth assassinated the President.

Director Salvador Litvak and his writing partner, Nina Davidovich Litvak, based their screenplay on their extensive research into Lincolns friendship with Lamon. Saving Lincoln charts their relationship from their initial meeting to Lincolns Presidency. Lamon was a tall, boisterous Southerner who liked to drink whiskey, tell jokes and stories, play the banjo, and wrestle. Despite some pronounced differences between the two men, they shared a fondness for telling jokes and stories, and both felt slavery should be eliminated. Lamon often served as Lincolns private confidant.The movie jumps from their initial meeting to Lincolns presidency and the repeated attempts that were made on his life. Many wellknown incidents are recounted, including the plot to kill Lincoln in Maryland, while he was traveling to Washington, D.C. after his first election Lamon worked with Allan Pinkerton, who founded the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency, to thwart that plan. Other events include the time a bullet went through Lincolns hat while he was riding his horse late one evening he blamed it on a hunter firing an errant shot, but Lamon saw it as a sign that Lincoln was in mortal danger and needed even tighter security. Lamon was said to sometimes sleep by Lincolns bedroom door, a striking image that appears in the film. ........

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