“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.