Lincoln and Disney - A Beautiful Combination

I hope that title is not misleading...Disney is not going to do a movie about Lincoln. Rather, there is a different connection between the kick-ass president and the godly production company. And that connection is a photograph.

Christopher Oakley, a former Disney animator, discovered a rare picture of Abraham Lincoln while he tediously poured over photographs taken at the delivery of the Gettysburg Address. Oakley's discovery challenges the previous identification (in the same photograph) of Lincoln made by John Richter, the director of the Center for Civil War Photography, 55 years after the only image of Lincoln from that day had been discovered in 1952 by Josephine Cobb of the National Archives.

Oakley's identification fits more personal aspects of the president's face and in a small-scale facial recognition sort of way, his identification has proved to be the real Abraham Lincoln in the photograph. Dissecting the Richter identification of Lincoln and finding many errors, including hair and beard length, has lead the earliest identification of Lincoln to be dismissed and Oakley's identification to be considered accurate.

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