Posted on 08/07/2020 5:03:55 PM PDT by simpson96
Mr. Samuel J. Seymour, the last living eyewitness to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. was the mystery guest on the February 8, 1956 episode of the I've Got a Secret game show. Mr. Seymour (March 28, 1860 – April 12, 1956) was actually 95 years of age at the time of this appearance instead of 96.
Host: Garry Moore. Panelists from left to right: Bill Cullen, Jayne Meadows, Henry Morgan, Lucile Ball.
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I stayed up
What joy
Joy
Someday I hope to be the last living person who remembers the night Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. “Yes, Bob. They were all in shock over at MSNBC and CNN. As for me, I was laughing hysterically. I remember it well.”
LOL
I just watched this like 3 days ago. Had seen it before. Such important film and it strikes me as kind of odd it’s on YouTube but I hope it’s also other places.
Don’t’ they still do that? I had a friend who lived in Allentown tell me something about that.
I was 4 when JFK was shot. I remember how quiet the apartment complex we lived in was.
President John Tyler Has 2 Living Grandsons (as of April 2017)
Here is how it works:
President John Tyler, was born in 1790, died in 1862.
Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr., one of President Tyler's 15 children. Was born in 1853 (His father was 63)
Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. was born in 1924. Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Their father was 71 and 75 when they were born.
Both were still alive in 2017
“We love old “I’ve got a Secret” episodes!...”
The panel behaved with a politeness that is now long-gone. The women remained seated when shaking hands, the men, of course stood.
We are often told how bad America was in the 50s, but my memory of the time as a child and when I see I’ve Got a Secret I think we’ve lost a lot...
“The stories he told!!!”
My Grandpa went through the Bolshevik Revolution. His family had a small, prosperous farm near Kiev.
He told me that the Bolsheviks, crying “For the people!” (Kamal Harris’s campaign slogan.) came on to their farm and took everything the had.
To the day he died he was totally p.o.ed the Communist took the white stallion that he helped in the delivery of it’s birth. He loved that horse!
Later he talked about the union’s corruption after he fought for unions in the 20’s.
He taught me to believe in freedom and to pay attention.
Just wow. A man living into the age of television and was old enough to remember Lincoln’s assassination. I was alive when Kennedy was shot, but somewhat younger and more worried about my bottle of formula getting cold, methinks.
Agree with how this tragedies are burned into our memories, particularly how even the very young will vividly remember such events while we forget so much else.
I was 6, in first grade in a school where each classroom had a phone so the office could contact the teachers. I still remember my teacher going to the phone, how she just started crying and then hung up to come and tell the class of the tragedy, how school was dismissed so we could go home with our families. I remember thinking how my young mind thought how mean this was, especially as it was my father’s birthday - couldn’t the guy have just waited until another day.
Some Freepers are old enough to have been able to meet Civil War veterans.
Many Freepers are old enough that they could have met former slaves.
Some Freepers could have met people who remembered the news of Gen. Custer at Little Bighorn.
Some Freepers have grandparents who could have sat on the lap of people having living memory of our founding fathers.
***Amazing that he still remembered.***
Some things stick with you all your life. I still remember things when I was 4 years old back in 1950.
President John Tyler, born in 1790, has 2 living grandsons. (as of 2018 anyway).
My Great-grandfather was born in 1868, the year Custer raided (under orders) the Washita. the plains were covered with Buffalo, the first cattle drives were organized to move north, the Santa Fe trail was closed due to Indian raids, Billy the Kid was still a kid (nine years old), Tombstone had not been founded yet.
He lived long enough to see the A-bomb and the B-52 Bomber go into service.
I’m only 62 and have known people from 3 different centuries.
Where guns were present.
-PJ
So true. My aunt (born 1916) used to sit on her grandfather's lap. He lost his hearing while firing cannons during the Civil War. My Father's step Father was born in 1852 and built a lumber mill in Denver, CO in the 1870s.
My Father sat in my great Uncle's lap as a child. My great uncle knew his grandfather well who was born in 1790 and fought in the War of 1812.
Another amazing slice of history to witness!
lol At least one that we know of. Is it too soon to laugh at that?
I envy hearing the stories you were told.
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