He is buried next to Lincoln in Springfield. "It was a hard role to play, since Robert is complaining in almost every scene." Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre during the play "Our American Cousin," while Tad was at the National Theatre enjoying "Aladdin." In 1871, at 18, having returned from a trip to Europe with his mother, Tad caught a cold and died. Mulroney, who is from Alexandria, "looks not unlike my oldest son, a little taller and thinner than I am," said Kristofferson. Son Robert, a Harvard student, eventually served in the Union Army, although his mother feared she'd lose him too. That year also saw the death of a family friend and young Union officer, Elmer Ellsworth, who was shot in Alexandria while he was trying to remove a rebel flag from a rooftop. Son Willie, 12, died of rheumatic fever at the White House in 1862. There had to be a powerful, strong love between them to survive the blows that they had." The Lincolns suffered the death of their 4-year-old son Eddie in Springfield, Ill., before they left for Washington, D.C. "I know that there's a tendency to portray her as a lunatic, because she ended up in an asylum, but I felt that Mary was entitled to the benefit of the doubt. And to have them blown away in your presence. In my own experience, I've never seen anything that can destroy a person more than losing a child - it's not the natural order of things. These are things that devastate a human being. "Rose Kennedy and Mary Todd Lincoln were women who were particularly unlucky," he said. Kristofferson, in Richmond to attend a reception for the movie, called on the day Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died. I felt the same thing when I was looking at old speeches of Kennedy's." "Tad" was filmed in and around Richmond, Petersburg and Midlothian, Va. And I was struck so much by the letters from different soldiers, how eloquent they were. Like Christ, he talked in parables all the time and illustrated his points with little anecdotes. The man had such integrity and true humility and dedication to the principle of liberty and justice for everyone. "So many things come to you: the notion that we might have killed off the best and the brightest of Americans. I've seen them several times I see them over and over.
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That Ken Burns series was such a great way to feel the flavor of the times. "I got to read up a lot - I'm still reading. Kristofferson, father of eight children ranging from 33 years to six months, said he immersed himself in Lincolniana to prepare for the role, reading Gore Vidal and Carl Sandburg and watching tapes of Ken Burns's "The Civil War." "That was one of the blessings, getting to do research about it," he said. Kris Kristofferson portrays the Great Emancipator, Bug Hall plays Tad, Jane Curtin is Mary Todd Lincoln, and Kieran Mulroney is Robert, the only Lincoln son to survive past his teens. That the burdens of this father were almost beyond comprehension makes "Tad" especially touching, airing as it does at 7 on Sunday, the 186th anniversary of Lincoln's birthday. Maybe only other children who have lived in the White House will fully appreciate The Family Channel's story of Abraham Lincoln and his third son, Thomas "Tad" Lincoln.īut many youngsters can identify with the mischievous boy who could bring a smile to a busy father's face.
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