Duel With Aunt Rebecca, A
Broadcast: 8th May 1951
Added: Feb 26 2012
This is a true story which occurred in 1842. James Shield is a Democrat and a proud man; his friend Abraham Lincoln is a stubborn man and a 32-year-old Springfield Lawyer. When Shields believes that Abraham is the mysterious Aunt Rebecca the writer of the slanderous articles in the Journal Newspaper the stubbornness of the two men leads them almost to a duel. The matter is resolved in a most polite and good humored manner.