Amazing!
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Yeah right!!!!!! Everyone knows they didn’t have TV back in the 1700s!!!!!
/inevitable
2 posted on
08/12/2011 9:58:03 AM PDT by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
("Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home." - Cicero)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
That is amazing that Jane Meadows got that so quickly. I love those old game shows that always had Bennett Serf and Kitty Carlisle on the panel. And a really un-PC sponsor.
"Winston Cigarettes taste good like a cigarette should."
4 posted on
08/12/2011 10:05:15 AM PDT by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I love how he didn’t smoke cigarettes so they gave him some pipe tobacco! LOL.
5 posted on
08/12/2011 10:06:36 AM PDT by
GraceG
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Incredible. Mind boggling to realize a witness survived that long into the twentieth century. I was born in 1955 and I remember seeing this program on TV (not this particular episode) maybe in 1959 or 1960. (Or something like it.) I do think I remember the host of the show. I certainly remember the black & white TVs!
7 posted on
08/12/2011 10:24:43 AM PDT by
StormEye
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
9 posted on
08/12/2011 10:29:52 AM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
It just shows how short American history really was. That a person that saw that lived on into the Space Age.
So it is conceivable that a Gen Y’s parents might have shaken the hand of a person that saw Lincoln shot.
10 posted on
08/12/2011 10:30:30 AM PDT by
VanDeKoik
(1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
If Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 and the IGAS show was filmed in 1956, then the eyewitness would have necessarily been 90 years old if he was taken to Ford’s Theatre as a newborn. To be old enough to witness and remember the event, he would need to be a few years older than that.
And, of course, people in their 90s are often found to have faulty memories so...
13 posted on
08/12/2011 10:34:58 AM PDT by
OrangeHoof
(Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I remember that show well growing up. What an amazing piece of video history.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Wow.. 1956.
That would make Mr. Seymour 151 today.
Wow..
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Did anybody ask him “outside of that, how was the play?”
30 posted on
08/13/2011 8:41:38 PM PDT by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Those who trade land for peace will end up with neither one.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I can dimly remember my 96 year old Grandmother, in 1936, telling me that she had gone to Buffalo, NY to listen to a talk by Lincoln who was on his way to be inaugerated.
As I recall [I was 5 at the time] she said that Lincoln had a very high-pitched nasal voice with very much of a Hoosier accent.
35 posted on
08/14/2011 10:08:12 AM PDT by
curmudgeonII
(Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Incredible! Thanks for a fascinating post!
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