Posted on 10/18/2012 7:39:31 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness appears on television's "I've Got a Secret" on February 9, 1956.
On a 1956 game show, a man appeared who had been present at Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865.
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Funny, but that's exactly the age he claimed to be. And he looked it, too.
“So this guy would have to be a minimum of 96
Funny, but that’s exactly the age he claimed to be. And he looked it, too.”
Which does not change the point I made. Just because he was alive then, does not mean he was at Ford Theater on that night, but does make it pretty easy to claim that he was without contradiction.
We’ll never know for sure. It’s a good story, though.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, and you’ll call him a liar.
But he did make $80 prize money on the show, and he got a free can of tobacco.
He really cashed in.
“Kennedy, the most failed president of the 20th century.”
?????
I don’t follow how it would have been the most failed Presidency?
bttt
LOL! Supposedly he “witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.” Yet, at the end, Bill Cullen tells us that he didn’t actually see Lincoln shot, he only Booth fall on the stage and he felt sorry that “somebody had fallen onto the stage.”
I mean, it’s amazing he was there and saw that, but apparently he did not actually witness the shooting.
He got a free trip down the stairs also.
Telling the truth is not hate, you boob. You sound like a lib.
“But he did make $80 prize money on the show, and he got a free can of tobacco.”
That’s the equivalent of about $700 today. Not exactly an American Idol payoff, but he did not do too badly for a night on national televison.
Especially considering who he's up against. Carter? Obama?
***Howdy Doody!****
I remember watching it and I did not think it was all that great. It was aimed at kids much younger than me at that time. I was 10. Just puppets and a clown, the host and the “Peanut Gallery” of kids. The show was very forgettable to me.
The ones I remember best are...
THE LONE RANGER
SKY KING
SUGARFOOT
TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS
YANCY DERRINGER
TALES OF JIM BOWIE
and way too many Warner Brother Westerns to mention.
And lots of comedies. I LOVE LUCY, GERNDIL, and many others. We did not care for LEAVE IT TO BEAVER. For some reason it did not appeal to us. We learned at an early age which shows tried to manipulate our feelings.
As for PETER GUNN, I remember it well. Back in 1967, their was a movie released, GUNN which was a movie version of the TV show. I have a recording of the music from the TV show PETER GUNN by Henry Mancini.
I also remember MR LUCKY about the same time.
When you start doing that then we can talk about hate or not.
You sound like a lib.
You sound like a Commie.
I used to see a face in my dreams of a very old man who looked very much like Albert Einstein. I had no idea who he was and I thought he was just another made up person in my dreams.
I was at my parents place one day looking at pictures and I saw him in a picture exactly like I had seen him in my dreams. I asked who he was and was told that he was my great grandfather. The first year after I was born he was around me all the time and we inseperable. My memory of his face is photographically accurate down to the wrinkles in his face.
He was born before the civil war and came to this country in 1866. He was born in 1850.
This is indeed a young country. Very young.
***Would I be flamed too much if I express some skepticism?***
Remember when the last veterans of the Civil War died?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_surviving_United_States_war_veterans
There were people alive during the Civil War that remembered the British marching through the countryside back during the Revolutionary War.
I remember when the last White survivor of the Indian Wars died in 1973, and the same year, during the Indian problems at Wounded Knee, the news reported on a living elderly woman whose parents died at the original battle in 1890.
***I don’t doubt he was alive when Lincoln was assassinated. Anyone in their nineties would have been in 1956.***
I remember when LIFE magazine did an article on LINCOLN.
They had an interview with the last living person who looked on the face of Lincoln in his coffin. This article was in either the late 1960s or early 1970s.
He was just a child at the time, and it was just before they opened the casket for the last time in Springfield Ill, and closed it back up, then poured cement around it to protect it from grave robbers, as the body had almost been stolen once before.
“Read the real history... it is far more interesting than the internet crap that pops up.”
Just like your revisionist history that you posted on the Internet with that post.
The reason Lincoln and the Republican opposed the expansion of slavery in the territories was to keep them "lily white" for the euro american pioneers.
So that means your sainted slave driving grandpap was just trying to spread 'diversity' from sea to shining sea? ;~))
Thanks.
Thanks I love this stuff.
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