Last Eye Witness of the Assasination of Abraham Lincoln... on video Feb. 9, 1956

[Jim Kelly]

Jim Kelly

Patriot Freedom

www.patriotfreedom.org

We sometimes forget how brief American history has been in terms of the entire history of mankind.  Samuel J. Seymour was five
years old and had been taken by his godmother to Ford’s Theater in

Washington to see the comedy Our American Cousin on Good Friday 1865. 

Seymour heard the shot fired by John Wilkes Booth, saw Lincoln fall

forward in his seat and  Booth leap from the Presidential box on to the

stage.  Seymour lived to appear on I’ve Got a Secret in 1956 in the

above video, less than a year before I was born.  Seymour would die soon

after his appearance on the show, 91 years to the day from Lincoln’s

assassination.  One point as to how times have changed:  The grand prize

on the game show was $80.00 and a carton of cigarettes!