"I Saw John Wilkes Booth Shoot Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1965)" - 1956 I've Got A Secret on YouTube

YouTube ^ | February 9, 1956 | I've Got A Secret

[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.

(Note: Link over to the YouTube site provided to watch this amazing historical video.)

[wardaddy]

But the Lincoln haters showed up first. You must be so proud.

actually I am ambivalent about Lincoln for the record...much as I am about that bastard Sherman too and I find this thread intriguing that someone alive in 1956..a year before my own birth witnessed that assassination....an act btw...I think was awful and did not one thing but hurt the South and pave the way for folks that think like some of you guys on this to take power and baring Andrew Johnson..they damn sure would have subjugated Dixe for generations or brought about even more carnage as an occupier versus an insurgency.

but I am not ambivalent about my disgust of a little nest of south haters here

a nest tolerated (mostly) by Fresno that has been proved time and again to be something of an organized effort by a group of folks with personal skin in the game and others who have many times finally been found out not to be really conservative about much after all and post on almost nothing but this stuff and after repeated exposure are finally shown the door via the bolt

let's see...I don't know you ...a newbie but likely a retread and a former zot

but we've had:

illbay, whiskeypapa, non sequitur, titus finkus, llan ddeussant, mortin sult, trumandogz, whoisgeorgesalt, r9etb and many others I can't recall right now strictly from memory but in time they finally just can't help it and some mod finally has enough

some survive by being careful with their liberal social views meanwhile spouting just enough fiscal manna to survive here over the years...I believe the gay agenda support finally brought non sequitur down even though those of us paying attention knew for years he was no good...even worse was Walt...he practically admitted his liberalism

anyhow...have a happy day..for however long you make it this go around

[Delhi Rebels]

actually I am ambivalent about Lincoln for the record...much as I am about that bastard Sherman too

If that's what you call ambivalent then I'd love to see what you people do to people you really hate.

anyhow...have a happy day..for however long you make it this go around

Oh I'm hoping to be around for a while and avoid being added to your list. You Confederate types are pretty fun to watch.

[Age of Reason]

I'm already more than half as old as my grandfather was when he died, yet everyday life has not changed that much since I was born as compared to how it must have changed for my grandfather at my age.

After all, when I was very little, we had automobiles, airlines, radio, television, electricity, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.

In your average neighborhood and home you pretty much have all the same things, or things that look similar.

For example, although we now have microwave ovens, they are still a box you cook things in, similar to the toaster oven of decades ago.

Our TV’s are bigger and recently went high-def, but they still fill the same role of the older CRT TV boxes.

The appearance of everyday life hasn't changed that much over my lifetime, as compared to the changes my grandfather must have witnessed.

What he witnessed was likely similar to the changes witnessed by people now in Third World countries who thirty or forty years ago were walking behind water buffalo plowing fields, but today are answering technical support phones.

[Age of Reason]

They had an interview with the last living person who looked on the face of Lincoln in his coffin.

I read a report of what that witness had to say on the net about ten years ago, complete with photos of the scene (but not of Lincoln's body).

[klgator]

One thing I do know - I’m not *really* a baby boomer because I DO NOT remember Howdy Doody! What was up with that show? People even a very few years older than me have it as part of their real cultural memory base I and my cohorts know nothing about it, other than what we’ve gleaned from our near elders! I’ve never figured out the exact dividing line, but Im pretty sure there is one.

I think it's nostalgia more than anything else. I got to see Buffalo Bob at my university in the early 70s. He could not tour with Howdy Doody (something about property rights). It had all the ingredients of a great kids show with the Peanut Gallery and all. I swear I can't remember what they did during the show, just some of the characters. I was born in 1951, and it was a great time to grow up. The first fad I remember was Davy Crockett on Disney. Everybody wanted a coonskin cap. Heck, there were only 5 episodes. Then came the hula hoop and Duncan yo-yos. I remember the gyroscopes that would spin and travel on a string. All the great commercials. With a box top and 50 cents you could get a diving frogman or submarine from Kelloggs in Battle Creek, MI. Every local tv station had its own kids show. In Tampa it was Major Jack, and in Orlando it was Uncle Walt. I had all my friends over for my 5th birthday, and when Uncle Walt came to my name on the birthday list, he admonished me to stop biting my fingernails. I thought I was going to die!

[central_va]

My ancestors were carpenters and farmers in Bedford VA. They had no slaves.

[rockrr]

Hi ohioan,

Here’s another opportunity to coalesce the troops in defeating Øbozo. Now granted there are more posts here than that other thread but I’m sure you’ll find plenty of posts slandering and insulting to the memory of a great Republican, a great president, and a great American.

Once again I’ll offer a bonus point: Are these comments less egregious than being happy that lee is dead; equal in egregiousness to being happy that lee is dead; or more egregious than being happy that lee is dead?

[central_va]

Truth cannot be slander, by definition.

Sic Semper Tyrannis.

[rockrr]

but I am not ambivalent about my disgust of a little nest of south haters here

A figment of your imagination and a pitiable strawman.

but we've had: illbay, whiskeypapa, non sequitur, titus finkus, llan ddeussant, mortin sult, trumandogz, whoisgeorgesalt, r9etb and many others I can't recall right now strictly from memory but in time they finally just can't help it and some mod finally has enough

Sure, and we've seen Aric2000, BurkeCalhounDabney, billbears, ConfederateMissouri, GhostofWCooper, Comus, unamused, wcbtinman, CajunPrince, Demidog, Charlotte Corday, Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy, BitBucket, KellyM37, Pukin Dog, Sam Hill, 68 grunt, BeHoldAPaleHorse, Peach, Texasforever, rebelsoldier, not to mention many more who finally wised up and either self-zotted or found greener pastures (but who is counting? ;-)

[rockrr]

...sez the guy with the casual acquaintance with the truth.

[wardaddy]

Compared to you anti white...anti southern bigots here who are usually in time proven to be libs anyhow

I absolutely adore. Lincoln

[Delhi Rebels]

Compared to you anti white...anti southern bigots here who are usually in time proven to be libs anyhow

That's quite a stretch there, chief. But not at all surprising coming from you.

I absolutely adore. Lincoln

See? You can't post the truth even when you're at your most rabid.

[x]

When I worked for the GOP back in the 1990s I would often run into Grover Cleveland’s son Francis who lived in NH. He used to show up at GOP meetings. Nice old guy. It was strange talking to the son of an American president from the 1880s in in the 1990s.

Hard to believe.

Maybe harder to believe: somebody in education and the arts who was a Republican for 50 years, though it looks like theater became a sideline for him.

John Tyler (1790-1862, President 1841-1845) still has living grandchildren. A granddaughter of James Garfield is also still alive, and somewhere out there still hanging on are at least two children of Civil War veterans.

[LongWayHome]

The old guy was indeed a republican, but he was not a party activist of any sort. He liked the social aspect of showing up to GOP meetings, and eveyone enjoyed interacting with him. Grover Cleveland’s grandson (not Francis’s kid, but Richard’s I believe) lives in central NH & is an active democrat....he’s also something of a nitwit from what I gather.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I read a report of what that witness had to say on the net about ten years ago, complete with photos of the scene (but not of Lincoln’s body). ***

Did he mention that Lincoln’s mummified body had turned dark, and a mortician smeared chalk on it to give it a lighter look?

[Delhi Rebels]

There was something on the History Channel about the long strange history of what happened to Lincoln’s body, and I think they mentioned that they embalmed the body to the max when he died because of the planned tour they were going to make with it. Maybe that caused the mumification and darkening of the skin?

[DogByte6RER]

Related info ...

The Adventures of Abraham Lincoln’s Corpse

http://io9.com/5898746/the-adventures-of-abraham-lincolns-corpse?tag=abraham-lincoln

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

• TV appearance of Lincoln assassination witness

[wardaddy]

like I said...retread...I don’t know you from X, ditto or rocky

i doubt we’ll get to know each other...you lack their ability to keep cool and carry on