Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Mulligan, Mary Tyler Moore
Genres: Drama
Factual error: When Mrs. Lincoln is greeting the guests at the party, she says, "The White House and the other house." The presidential mansion was not called the White House until Teddy Roosevelt gave it that name in 1901.
Suggested correction: Teddy Roosevelt only made the nickname "The White House" the official name in 1901. The nickname was used in the 1800s.
Factual error: In one of the scenes in which took place in a white room, on the door behind the character's head is a modern day "door closer". Door closers were invented in 1880 by Lewis C Norton of the the LCN Company and the first one was installed at Boston Trinity Church in 1880, was some 15 years after this film took place.
Abraham Lincoln: I could write shorter sermons, but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop.
Trivia: Director Steven Spielberg obtained permission from the museum that holds Abraham Lincoln's original pocket watch to record the sound of the watch for use in the movie. So, in several scenes where Lincoln is in contemplative thought and fiddling with his watch, the ticking watch sound is actually the same as Lincoln heard 150 years ago.
Question: In all the articles I have read, Booth shot Lincoln then jumped out of the box into the audience below, spraining his ankle. He managed to escape because the audience thought it was part of the act. In the movie the show is interrupted by the Manager coming onto the stage to announce that Lincoln had just been shot - no disruption during the show until then. Is this a goof or not?
Answer: Lincoln was shot at Ford's theater while attending the play Our American Cousin. The interruption by the manager to announce that Lincoln had been shot was during a different play that Tad Lincoln was watching at the time in a completely different theater.
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