70 Years Ago, the Last Living Witness to Lincoln’s Assassination Was a Mystery Guest on a Game Show
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On February 9, 1956, 96-year-old Samuel J. Seymour appeared as a mystery guest on the game show I’ve Got a Secret. Seymour’s secret, which the panel was tasked with guessing, was that he’d seen John Wilkes Booth shoot Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Based on Seymour’s age, panelist Bill Cullen quickly figured out that the answer […] The post 70 Years Ago, the Last Living Witness to Lincoln's Assassination Was a Mystery Guest on a Game Show appeared first on vice .
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