"Here is a man, elderly but still kicking, who witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Yet his setting -- the 1950s/1960s game show "I've Got a Secret" -- is completely recognizable as a modern media production. Sure, it's not in color, the hairstyles are a bit outdated, and a cigarette advertisement is prominently displayed, but those are subtle changes when compared with those this man saw in his lifetime."
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I remember watching that show as a boy in the 1950s.
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Saw this last year. Amazing.
Pawn Stars had an expert on recently bring an original Wanted poster in great condition. Seller wanted $160,000 and turned down $130,000.
Lincoln’s original proposed 13th Amendment popped up a few years ago. Proposed to... Make slavery clearly Constitutional in a final effort to avoid the Civil War.
Lincoln believed blacks were inferior and should be repatriated to Africa. He suspended basic rights such as freedom of the press, habeus corpus, arrested political opponents, was a horrible blunderer as Commander in Chief, and would be remembered differently had he not been shot. Kennedy, of course, had the good fortune of being assassinated as well saving him from being the most failed president of the z20th century.
Interesting. Thanks.
Thanks for posting. Amazing.
I remember that show, by the way Bill Cullen was the first host of “ The Price is Right” our Neighbor won a car on the show!
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.
A friend gave me some DVDs of Groucho Marx’s game show from the ‘50s. One of the contestants was an older man and Groucho asked him what his first job was. The man casually responded, “Well, after the Civil War I worked as a courier.” I just stared in awe. He said it so matter-of-factly...like we might say we remember Desert Storm or Vietnam. It really gave me a sense of how young this country is.
Where I work, we have a guy who has coined the term “Moore Move”.Named after Gary Moore. It occurs when someone holds information that may be important to others and keeps it to themselves. I’ve Got a Secret still lives.
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Wow.... what a great video
I saw this episode of “I’ve Got a Secret” several years ago when the Game Show Network used to run a block of programming called “Sunday Night in Black and White.” They featured vintage game shows such as “I’ve Got a Secret”, “What’s My Line?”, and “To Tell The Truth.” It’s too bad they discontinued this programming.
But besides that, how was the play?
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I was just thinking of my grandparents who were both born in the 1880s.They got to see the most amazing technological changes in history.
When they were young, they traveled to town via oxcart. By the time of their deaths, everyone had TVs, fast automobiles, could ride in near supersonic passenger jets. etc.
Thanks so much for posting this. I shared this very cool find with the family. We all got a big kick out of it!
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