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"Mr. Lincoln, I've Decided to Trust You!" script, 1967

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FEMALE VOICE
(angry)
"We won't let this go...we'll go to Chicago and we will get them, even if it takes years."

MALE VOICE
"Well...there goes our voice...he was one of the few Negroes who would tell ole Whitey, like it was. He died too soon."

MALE VOICE
"Maybe it was just in time...he had started to soften toward the end.

The upper scene grows dark and we are returned to the underworld scene.

1ST SPECTATOR
"They loved him greatly."

2ND SPECTATOR
"They hated him more."

1ST SPECTATOR
"What has Lincoln to do with this?"

The conversation and direction of the scene changes and the 1st. and 2nd Readers converse, as if the 1st. Spectator had asked them a question.

1ST READER
"His confronter is a child of his ideas.

2ND READER
"He is more than that...he is child of his...

3RD READER
...ideas and a victim of his short-sightedness."

2ND READER
"We shall see...I have the complete records in my hands."

(holding up his lage books)

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6 FEMALE VOICE (angry) "We won't let this go...we'll go to Chicago and we will get them, even if it takes years." MALE VOICE "Well...there goes our voice...he was one of the few Negroes who would tell ole Whitey, like it was. He died too soon." MALE VOICE "Maybe it was just in time...he had started to soften toward the end. The upper scene grows dark and we are returned to the underworld scene. 1ST SPECTATOR "They loved him greatly." 2ND SPECTATOR "They hated him more." 1ST SPECTATOR "What has Lincoln to do with this?" The conversation and direction of the scene changes and the 1st. and 2nd Readers converse, as if the 1st. Spectator had asked them a question. 1ST READER "His confronter is a child of his ideas. 2ND READER "He is more than that...he is child of his... 3RD READER ...ideas and a victim of his short-sightedness." 2ND READER "We shall see...I have the complete records in my hands." (holding up his lage books)