The photographers may have missed Lincoln’s speech, but sometimes they inadvertently captured one another, providing clues to their exact position.
Discovered in the 1950s by Josephine Cobb, an archivist at the National Archives, it remains the only undisputed image of Lincoln at Gettysburg - seemingly taking his seat on the platform hatless, his head bowed. The most famous of the photographs is attributed to David Bachrach, who was positioned in front of the speaker’s platform. In fact, he said, he had been partly inspired by “Cold Case JFK,” a 2013 “Nova” documentary which used cutting-edge forensics, including a 3-D digital model of Dealey Plaza, to investigate different theories. Talking about the effort, Oakley can exude a kind of grassy-knollish intensity. That discovery (which is still debated) came about as part of the Virtual Lincoln Project, a continuing classroom effort to create a digital, photo-real animation of Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address. In 2013, Oakley drew headlines with the claim that he had discovered a previously unknown image of Lincoln at Gettysburg in a stereograph by Alexander Gardner - a tiny, blurred top-hatted profile, nearly lost in the crowd. Joe as the president and the Lone Ranger as John Wilkes Booth. In high school, his first animation project was a Super 8 stop-motion re-enactment of the Lincoln assassination, starring G.I. Oakley, a former Disney animator who is now a professor of new media at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, has been “a Lincoln freak” since age 5.
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