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Adamson is presently worthing on third draft of video documentary just on the civil war. General and Chief Quartermaster of the U.S. Army in the Field under Sherman and Grant. General Sherman said of Langdon's work "No other Army had been better supplied in history." Photo to right is Langdon Easton.

Easton Video: The Spirit of Saint Louis, Before During & After the Civil War. News Producer and Professor Wes Sims has completed the 12 minute part on Eljiah Parish Lovejoy. Actor and dialect coach Robert Easton opens this documentary and introduces Rufus Easton. Short clips of Lincoln played by Wayne L. Scott, Walter Huston, Raymond Massey. Editorial advice and support by Agnes Potter and Colonel Andrew Amerson.

Interesting fact about Colonel Alton Easton is at the age of 81 he did not have a single grey hair on his head. See Photograph at bottom. Photograph to left is Bruce Adamson, Easton's 4th great grandson, off to meet with Roger Mayer. Then President of Turner Entertainment to promote Our Pal Hal in 1999. NOTE: Mayer graduated from Yale in the class of 1948 with George H.W. Bush. Roger Mayer then expressed to me that "There is no money" in documentaries." I did not make this documentary nor did I produced "Our Pal Hal; An Affair to Remember." for profit. It is my family history and one should not put a price on it. Thank you!

Cast is as follows:

Bruce Adamson, Produced, written, directed, and as Attorney General, Edward Bates;

Marie Adamson, as Mary Easton Sibley; (3rd great grand niece).

Colonel Andrew Amerson, Esq. as General Wm.. T. Sherman; (Amerson former Prosecutor for State of California and JAG).

St. Louis Postmaster Mark Anderson as himself;

William "Uncle Bill" Bakewell, Confederate Soldier. Uncle Bill as we called him when I was a kid was the co-founding member of Screen Actor's Guild (SAG). Click here for Bakewell's filmography and biography.

John Barrymore, III, reads Thomas Jefferson and Postmaster General Gideon Granger; Click here for J. Barrymore's, III filmography and biography.

Lionel Barrymore, as Southern gentlemen. Click here for Lionel Barrymore's, III filmography and biography.

Herb Bermann, (writer) as W.W. Wright chief War Engineer;

Thomas Brown, as Confederate General John B. Hood.

Robert Easton, (actor/dialect coach) as himself introduction. Click here for Actor Robert Easton's filmography and biography.

Henry Fonda, as Abraham Lincoln. Click here for Actor Fonda's filmography and biography.Uncle Hal worked with Fonda at Dramtic Club in 1930s.

Stephen Hicks, A degree in Film Production, as Chief Narrator and Langdon Easton;

Kimm Hogue, as Major General James Blunt.

Walter Huston, as Abe Lincoln. Click here for Huston's filmography and biography.

Gary McGowan, as Major General U.S. Grant;

Mark Piesco, as Colonel Alton Easton and as Owen Lovejoy ;

Leo McNamara, Esq. as Governor Hamilton Gamble

John Savage, (actor-Dear Hunter) as Major General John Schofield; Click here for Actor Savage's filmography and biography such films as Dearhunter and Hair.

Wayne L. Scott, as President Abraham Lincoln

Professor Wes Sims, as the Rev. Elijah Parish Lovejoy;

Diane White, representing the Mayor of St. Louis, Francis Slay - as herself.

Robert Easton gives a speech on Rufus Easton for a few minutes to introduce the viewer to Rufus Easton at the Saint Louis Post Office.. Diane White of the St. Louis Mayor's office represented Francis Clay and gives postmaster of St. Louis a proclamation declarating October 1, 2004 as the 200th anniversary of the First Post Office west of the Mississippi.

Robert Easton was also an actor in Gods and Generals, a Ted Turner Production with Robert Duval as Robert E. Lee. Easton played a Confederate statesman. Spoke to Robert Easton in October, 2006, he coached 42 people as a dialect coach and said of Robert Duval "He was the best Robert E. Lee, he has ever seen," in Gods and Generals. This film has great photography. Robert Easton was also the dialect coach for Al Pacino in Scarface.What a great piece of work by both. Turner often shows the film Paint Your Wagons in which Robert Easton acted in. Also The Red Badge of Courage.

Bluegrass provided by Steve Palazzo and David Grier who was a three time International Bluegrass Music Association Guitarist-Of-The-Year. Click here for purchasing Steve Palazzo music!

Interesting fact is that Rufus Easton built the very first post office in Saint Louis not far from the base of the Arch near the parking lot of the old Catholic Church, built in 1834, the year that Rufus died. St. Vincent de Paul held it's first meeting in the United States in that very same church in 1845. Not far from Court House where Missouri's future Governor Hamilton Gamble gave a dissenting view in the Dred Scott case. Gamble won the freedom of the Scypion Slaves in 1838 less than a year after Elijah P. Lovejoy was murdered in Alton, Illinois across the river. Have you heard about how U.S. citizen's murderering Elijah Lovejoy while he was running a press against slavery? So much for free speech it died Long ago. Wes Sims, a news producer for 30 years now a professor in broadcasting in UTAH has read Elijah P. Lovejoy.