TV Game Show Appearance Of Last Surviving Man To Witness Abraham Lincoln's Assassination - YouTube

The Daily Mail ^ | 10-20-2012

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TV Game Show Appearance Of Last Surviving Man To Witness Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Appears On YouTube After Nearly 60 YEARS

I've Got a Secret featured Samuel Seymour, a Maryland man who was the last surviving person to witness Abraham Lincoln's death
Mr Seymour died about two months after his appearance on the show, at 96 years old

By Daily Mail Reporter

October 20, 2012

A rare TV appearance of the last surviving person to witness the assassination of Abraham Lincoln's assassination has turned up on YouTube.

The video is from a February 1956 episode of the TV game show I've Got a Secret.

The show involved a notable person with a celebrity panel whose job it was to guess the secret behind what made the guest so famous.

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Guest: Host Garry Moore, right, escorts Samuel Seymour, left, onto the set of I've Got a Secret in this footage from 1956

Injury: Seymour, who was 95 years old at the time, has a bandage on his head after he had fallen down the stairs at his hotel

Revelation: Mr Seymour tells Moore his secret as it flashes on the screen for the audience viewing at home

The video begins with host Garry Moore walking backstage to help an elderly man make his entrance

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I heard Glenn Beck talking about this, so....I looked it up.

I remember watching this program "I've Got A Secret" in the late 50's.

[OldPossum]

Fascinating story.

Bookmark.

[SomeCallMeTim]

bump for later.. (When I can access youtube.. :-( )

[Oratam]

Instead of a carton of Winstons, they gave the gentleman Prince Albert in a can.

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That's what my grandad smoked
Rolled his own.

He would hand me the can and ask how many 6's (the figure six) I could find in the picture. I believe there were nine.

[rightly_dividing]

Just a trivial side point to the thread; the chair that Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot is in the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn Mi.

[SunkenCiv]

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