Last Witness to President Abraham Lincoln Assassination I've Got A Secret
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2016
- 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
I realize that clips from this show are available elsewhere on RUclips, but I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to put it on my channel and share it with those of you who may not have already seen it. I have also added an excerpt of the article mentioned to the end of the video which sheds a little more light on Mr. Seymour's horrifying experience.
Here is the link to the article, "I Saw Lincoln Shot" by/about Mr. Seymour mentioned in the video: news.google.com/newspapers?id...
Public domain footage.
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So he lived through 4 depressions, 2 World Wars, witnessed the invention of the light bulb, the automobile, invention of aircraft, and last saw Lincoln alive. Someone needs his life story in a book.
John MILLER I’m afraid it did not happen if so I need to read the book!
That would be a cool Twitter bio
John MILLER you got 66 likes with very decent, kind hearted statement, where “doctor whooey” got over 12k with a stupid statement about dead people witnessing dead people get dead. Great current state our dumbed down nation is in smh.
Not to mention he lived through two other presidents get shot and almost saw a third.
And now he is rolling in has grave because we put a corrupt Orange moron in the White House
When a 96 year-old wants to go on TV.
You let him.
uh they did genius
@@mathewmus5249 some of the coments in the thread are decrying the fact that an old guy was on TV.
Damn straight.
De Cam I would hit like but it’s on 196
95*
The fact he fell and injured his head and still chose to show up to the interview for me to watch it 77years later I have mad respect for him.
162 ? Must be new math!
@@MRMTF you missed replying to the correct comment, it was one up from here. BTW that was made a year ago so 1860 would have been 162 years prior. As of march 28th 2023 it has been 163 years since his birth.
67 years later, but I hear ya. Tough old guy
@@MRMTF 2022 - 1860 = 162. Not new math to most of us. It might be new to you.
But he was lying his ass off. They checked all the names of the people attending the theatre in 1865, and he wasn't on any list, nor was his godmother's name. There were no small children in the theatre that day. The fact that he came out with his story first at age 94 should have given everyone a clue.
"Was it a pleasant thing?"
"Not very pleasant, I don't think."
That's certainly one way to describe witnessing an assassination! This man was a hoot.
People don't have that kind of comic wit nowadays. I wish they did.
@@khaoticpenguin3945 what? Lol
He was 96 and was 5 when he saw it 91 years isnt the best age to remember things that happened almost a century ago and
@@BigbodyTonkaa bruv just be apriciative of someone who lived to tell the tale memory clear or not he lived and witnessed that and two world wars forget about the man's memetoy and have some respect clown
very pleasant! got what he deserved.
Dude fell down the stairs and gave himself a black eye at 95 years old, and still went on this game show to tell that he was the last & only witness to Lincoln's assassination. LEGEND.
A different generation they did not need safe spaces did not even know what trigger words were and if you insulted their honor it was down to you and him did not need some ACLU' types to take you to court.you would man up and be a man.
He died not long afterwards so may have been due to the fall.
@@jimscaggs2422 ah yes, it’s so great that people had to deal with trauma with no understanding on how to truly cope with it. They’re so lucky
@@jimscaggs2422 I'm sure his generation had people equally as whiny as you.
@@jimscaggs2422 You know the ACLU was already 46 years old at the time this clip was filmed.
Hearing someone say they were born in 1860 is insane
The fucking Queen was.
When I was a child, I KNEW people born in the 19th century. It’s not insane. You’re just young.
@@insaneone4369 No lol
@@Toast0808 Ok Mr. Boomer.
I knew a lady born in 1889. It was remarkable how far back it was. My Dad 1920-2010 knew his great grandmother who was born in 1854.
He was around the civil war, WW1, WW2 radio broadcasting, television, and the the first telephone, the great depression, this man is history written in time. Bless his heart
To be honest a mere decade beyond the Civil War (telephone) isn't that amazing, since before the war 'telephones' were being developed and researched by investors, eventually leadingto the telephone. Not half as amazing as the other things he lived through
Plus movies, electricity, the automobile, airplanes, and birth of the computer. Missed out on the first person in space by five years.
You forgot like 57 other wars but ok
This is why we need to actually speak to our elders & listen to their answers. They have much to teach us.
Honestly, living from 1850-1950 was probably the BIGGEST jump in technology that any human could witness first hand. I wish i was born then.
Thank you, Mr. Seymour, for insisting to come onto the show. I sit here, 70 years later, watching you on TV. The information passed on from you to us today is priceless. Thank you for coming on even though you had a shiner!!!
@sea-pin thank you for your psychological insight Doctor sea pin.
@sea-pinSo what if we do, I mean millions have watched this video hundreds of thousands have liked it and the newspaper wrote about it and he went on TV about it. Why wouldnt you believe it? Your argument for it not being true is completely made up guessing nonsense and you try to gatekeep others in learning history and respecting this man.
Get a grip!
@sea-pin there's no reason to doubt it.
@sea-pin you've literally given no reason to doubt it.
@@darlingdeb7010Look at his profile picture. Even with evidence, he won't believe anything that he didn't expirence himself.
**sees a picture of John Wilkes Booth**
"Oh, yes, I know that man. He's the poor fellow who fell off the balcony and broke this leg during the play."
Tom Wilkes Booth?
Tom? Do you mean John or did I miss something somewhere???
@@babygrandma8654 HAHA sorry I got his name wrong. My brain is dumb.
@@barbaro267 Ha Ha ok thanks for replying.
I’m not sure if he’s become a bit senile or just joking. I mean this was 2 months before his death
This man was born 162 years ago. He lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, and was an eyewitness to the Lincoln assassination. He went on TV which wasnt a thing when he was in his youth to tell his story, and that story is still being seen now in 2022. Mind blowing.
Isnt, its so creepy and amazing at the sametime
Literally mind blowing
Two world wars, a civil war, a Great Depression and three presidential assassinations
@@ericv7531 Not to mention the Battle Of Bunker Hill (1898).
@@darcyperkins7041 And seeing the Wright Brothers flying for the first time (12-17-1903).
I know he is no longer with us, but could you imagine being able to say you are the last person alive that witnessed Abe’s assassination? Man. History right there.
It’s crazy the amount of historical events this gentleman lived
He lived through the Civil War, saw Lincoln die, lived through both world wars, and then he died
@@coppermanplushies No, he lived through the Civil War, saw Lincoln die, saw the invention of the automobile, invention of television, aircraft, telephone, WW1, the Great Depression, WW2 and a little of the cold war and probably more things I didn't included!
@@bellama420 just because I didn’t list them all doesn’t mean its innacurate
Born in horse and buggy Civil War time, died sometime after the invention of the polio vaccine. Plus when he was young, it's possible a couple of American Revolutionary vets were still walking around. The stories he could have told throughout his life...
This is so crazy. Here I am, in 2018, watching a TV show from 1956 that had as a guest someone who witnessed a 1865 event.
Diogo David it’s 2019....
Phenomenal!
2019*
computers have created a condundrum...we may lose our privacy but the trade-off is connections like this. I, for one, am thankful for the ability to see Doppler Radar and RUclips. I was 6 years old when this show was televised and I KNOW my mom watched it. I don't recall it at all. I look at Doppler and think this is the gift of the GODS. So is this. thank you.
How the fuck did you manage to get the current year wrong? 😂😂😂
Just think for a second, this man’s grandparents could have lived through the American revolution, that’s amazing.
camo12121 Crazy how young US history is compared to some parts of the world. I wonder when his grandparents were born
KrisMarie Atx512 I know right our country is actually very young
yep, he may have heard stories of the American revolution from his grand parents and meanwhile been alive during the Suez crisis or the beginning of the Cold War.
@@myapologiesmissgurl5069 James Seymour (born 1809), Susan Ann Seymour née McQuay (born 1812), Samuel Callaway (born 1770 in Maryland), Elizabeth Callaway née Thompson (born 1810).
Only his maternal grandfather was old enough to witness the American Revolution. But he was old enough to have remembered it.
Daniel Bamberger Wow, thank you 🙏🏼 that’s so cool!!
There were multiple living Revolutionary War veterans in 1865, the last one, John Gray, lived until 1868. A baby born in 1956 would be about 67 years old today. This man could have met someone who was there at the founding of the nation, and a person still alive now in the present day.
Yeah sad what happened to our country we’re are the folks like this?
Fun fact! It was found out the last one was Daniel F. Bakeman, died a year after at 109 years old
But John Gray also did have a long life dying at 104
you just blew my mind, dude
I did the math and yeah, a revolutionary war veteran could’ve been talking to a Civil War veteran who could’ve been talking to a World War II veteran who would eventually live to see our modern day. The US is only 4 (counting the modern generation) generations old at minimum. I guess that’s why the Europeans always say the US is so young But it’s incredible how much history we’ve packed within those nearly 250 years
"Was this man President?" "Yes, I think he was once." Sharp as a tack at 96.
Or seriously demented
He saw the end of the American Civil War, witnessed Lincoln being shot, and lived long enough to see television, early computers, jet planes, and hydrogen bombs. Amazing.
And has he lived one more year, he would have seen the dawn of the Space Age with the Sputnik launch !
He also knew how the ORIGINAL coca cola tasted like when it actually still had cocaine in it. That lucky bastard :(
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 that is a good one .. 🤗
Civil war, 2 world wars, 1919 spanish flu, titanic, great depression, pre-penicillin ... tough life
Just to demonstrate how these 96 years this man lived was a timeframe with a giant leap in technology:
One of the first riders of the Pony Express that stared in 1860 could have met Buzz Aldrin that was to become a man that walked on the moon in 1969. From horseback as the fastest way to get from point A to point B to a rocket to the moon!
Buzz Aldrin was 39 in 1969 and born in 1930. If the first rider of the Pony Express was 20 years old at that time in 1860, he could have met a 5 year old Buzz Aldrin in 1935 while he himself was 95 years old. One year less older than this man!
This man saw the civil war, Two world wars, the spanish flu, the invention of the car, the radio, the television, and the phone. What a wild life
Don’t forget about Elvis
He went from horse carraiges and morse code to television, and automobiles and atom bombs
Lived through emancipation of slaves, women's suffrage rights, and bunch of social change
Wow, from muzzleloading muskets to machine guns and atom bombs and ICBM's. The birth and death of Adolf Hitler. X-rays, radio, TV, jet aircraft, penicillin...
Didn't see the Civil War, but ok
@@rbeforme yes he did
If he was alive and five year old during Lincolns assasination, he was born a year before the war started
That's amazing to see how relatively recent major historical events are when you see a living person on film who was alive when Lincoln was shot. I remember being fascinated as a child when my grandfather would tell me stories of when he was a kid and cars were starting to appear around Chicago along side all of the horse drawn carriages!
Everybody is talking about "Sigma" stuff and all, but you ain't no sigma unless you survived Two World wars and the Great Depression, and witnessed a very importaint historical event.
Very kewl story @bentylist ! :D Imagine people still driving horse carriges!
I remember my grandpa once told me the most grandpa story ever, even with a cheesy joke at the end:
Guy: Walks into store.
Guy: Picks up *gold?
Guy: Walks up to counter.
Guy: Hey, i'd like to buy this gold*!
Store Clerk: No you fool that's fools gold!
UGH! GRANDPAS!
It was amazing to watch that episode. He was in Ford's Theater that historic night. Awful that he didn't have bodyguards all around. I'll bet he had threats to him and his family all the time. They auctioned off a pair of tickets to that show at Ford's the night the president was killed. I'm going to Google it to see what they sold for. I was 10 when JFK was killed. Am still sad about that awful day. And it's unreal that Abe Zapruder got that on video.
There are actual photographs of Napolean's grande armée soldiers in full uniform.
Bill Cullen knew what Mr. Seymour witnessed, pretty quick. Classy guy, he stretched the segment to fill time and then gave an easy lay up to Jayne Meadows. Great show & a great clip !
Imagine witnessing the death of Abraham Lincoln and later going on a game show about it. It seems almost as it's time travel. That's insane.
"Game show?" "Yeah, they had them on T.V." "T.V.?"
An episode of Twilight Zone, more like it.
Big Bubba for shizzle
@@defiverr4697 There were a few episodes involving Lincoln as well as the Civil War.
well, I mean, we're all time traveling right now so...
The $80 dollars he was given from the show is equivalent to about $766 dollars today
@Cryptorum nah bro he died like 2 months after this was filmed
@@ZaibatsuHeavyIndustries so that was basically a life’s supply of money
@@thepencil448 oof
In a few months it will be equal to 7000 dollars today.
@@Joybuzzahz facts
Lived through
Part of the Civil War
The Spanish Flu
WW1
The great stock crash
The Great Depression
WW2
Hitler’s suicide
The Cold War
The Korean War
Three presidential assassinations
And chose to still do the show after getting a bump on his head.
What a fucking guy.
I think it’s 4 assassinations, isn’t it? There was Lincoln of course, then James Garfield a few years later, then william Mckinley and JFK
No kidding!!! Wow! Incredible….
HOLY SHI-
And the spanish American war
Actually he lived through all of the civil war
"It's been a great joy and you might say, and honor..." Absolutely. I'm glad he insisted on going on the show, made this clip a historical treasure, on top of introducing us to a funny yet brave man.
The fact that this guy even saw Lincoln is incredible.
Lincoln was a horrible person anyway, so don't buy into government propaganda
@@thealiachekzaifoundationof3822 you disgust me. Get out of the internet, you’re ideology belongs in the grave.
@@icedmorning7610 You should've known what he was gonna say by his pfp and username...
@@thealiachekzaifoundationof3822 Jefferson Davis was a democrat so you are a disgrace to the confederate soldiers who lost there lives in thar war
@@thealiachekzaifoundationof3822 Dude nice trolling.
Imagine witnessing one of the most significant events in recent history and going on a game show and winning 80$ bucks for it.
That's a lot of money back then
It would of been $754.62 in today's money.
@William Wykoff same
80 dollars back then isnt 80 dollars today. Its much more
lol
RIP Mr. Samuel Seymour!!! So glad he was adamant about appearing to share his experience. Amazing I was able to hear this with my own two ears!! 😊
@@sea-pinYou are against religion; ur retarded and what you say, and think does not matter to me nor anyone on earth.
@@sea-pinevidence?
@@sea-pin no, im asking for YOUR evidence. sorry, i shouldve phrased better
@@sea-pin All he said he remembers is seeing him fall
@@sea-pin same, so I think it’s reasable to judge it as “more likely than not” unless evidence supporting it being false surfaces
This has got to be THE most remarkable video I've ever seen on RUclips! Truly amazing Mr. Seymour! When you look at all the crap that is normally shown on RUclips this is exceptional and will definitely be remembered. Thanks Mr. Seymour.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
@@edithbannerman4Hi Edith I don't know what country you're in but I'm here in the UK. Certainly a surprise to get your comment! It's been absolutely ages since I first watched this video about the old man witnessing Lincoln's assassination. Truly amazing! 👍🇬🇧
@@john.highheels.3244 I’m now living in the USA and it’s nice to watch this video again. Hope to hear from you soon
Died 64 days after this broadcast. Glad he had his 15 minutes of fame before passing.
sirmolio probably because of the fall he took. The size of that lump on his head would be detrimental to someone that advanced in age.
@@Renvere what fall?
gemmy2492 The man on the show said he fell down the stairs before the show was aired. That’s why he has a massive knot on his forehead.
@@Renvere oh wow... thats sad
Hope he decided to blow through that $80 he won in those last couple months!
This man lived through the Civil War, WW1 and WW2...what a life.
@D man Dman my great grandfather fought in the Spanish American War. Thing is, I'm actually kind of young, so the reason why that's possible is because my grandma was born when her father was sixty. Some of her brothers died in WW1 and WW2 before she was born in '45.
Don't forget the Korean War
He also had to go through the dust bowl and the great depression
That’s insane. He must’ve seen so much shift in culture so fast.
Slavery was still alive,
The Great Depression,
The push for women’s rights,
Nixon
Pearl Harbor,
So much more lol but he was def alive in points of history were so much had happened.
TheJiggs666 damn dude
What an incredible piece of history. Hearing the words on film from a man who was there.... He never knew he would become such an important teller of first hand history from that time period.... He is our direct window to that infamous day and event....
it's amazing to me that this man was born 162 years ago, he appeared on a game show, and it blows my mind to think there were still revolutionary war veterans alive when he was a boy..
There were revolutionary war veterans alive when my great grandmother was born in 1864. She died in 1980 at 116.
@@pollypurree1834 Your grrat-grandmother lived through the end of the Civil War in her toddler years, saw Reconstruction in her childhood and early adulthood, the First World War in her 50s, the Second World War in her 70s, most of the Cold War in her 80s and 90s, Vietnam in her 100s, and passed away just after the rise of color television and just nine years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Truly a life to have lived!
It's crazy to me that in 2019 I can see a man who witnessed a presidential assassination that occurred 155 years ago. It's mind-blowing.
What's more, is that he probably heard first hand accounts from war of 1812 veterans as a boy.
If you have a couple of minutes -- 1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound) ruclips.net/video/aohXOpKtns0/видео.html -- is an interesting little ride on a time machine. I really appreciate the film editor who made it so watchable (less herky-jerky) compared to some other old films I have seen.
And winston 🚬 lol
GeneralCane yet you all tell descendants of slaves to get over that atrocity in 2019-2020.
@@mumuseer87 It's the past though, we can't change it...We can only make a better tomorrow, but are you really going to sit here and critique the descendants that know nothing of what their ancestors did, cause i'm pretty sure their is someone out their who doesn't know about the hole slavery thing
That is absolutely amazing that someone who witnessed Lincoln getting shot was on a TV game show in the 1950s.
But...he didn't. He said he saw John Wilkes Booth jump from the box and break his leg and was concerned about him being hurt. The announcer said:
TRUE
Monique Mosley he saw it happen he just didn’t understand. He said he saw the shooting but he didn’t understand and his only concern was for the man who fell from the balcony
I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or being for real
Monique Mosley he was confused he probably heard the gunshot as well plus this game show was in 1961
The last excerpt from the article gave me chills. The trauma from that night haunted him to the very end...
I've seen this video in the past, I came back to say thanks for uploading this, and for scanned paper, and I appreciate this. And, I wanted also to say that I'm grateful that Mr Seymour agreed to appear in this show
It always amazes me how young America really is. His grandparents lived in the same time as our founding fathers.
I thought we weren't supposed to mention them. Should I flag this comment? : )
@@SelectCircle why shouldn’t we mention the founding fathers?
@@jovisummerp8141 Go ask the Left. That's the point of my joke. (racist/sexist homophobes)
@@SelectCircle you are dumb af
@@kfcnewbornflea5333 Is it that you don't like irony - or just can't recognize it? : )
This dude fell down the stairs and still wanted to go onto the show
Good thing he didn't fall off the stage...
Why wouldn't he still want to go on television? It was his big chance. No one could have ever imagined television when he was 5 years old. Black and white photos were new and rare. Television would have seemed like magic. $80 was also still good money back in the 1950s.
They tried to silence him.
@tinylilmatt we heard he actually was badly beaten at his Hotel
In a fight with a hooker, over the fee. The hooker beat him with her high heel shoe✨✨✨
@@chrisgeorgallis7746 forced him into it.
Thanks for the article being included
Thanks for including those excerpts as well as the link from his article. Super cool video
“You’re the only living witness to one of the most significant moments in American history, here’s 80 dollars.”
$80 was big money back then.
80 dallors was at alot then so it would of been good money
Brent Raymond 80$ then would be about 750$ now
And... a couple a trips. One to NYC and the other down the stairs.
@@FadingPixel And he only had a couple of months to spend it.
Here I am in 2020, witnessing a show filmed in 1950s with a Gentleman who was alive in 1850....it’s like time is threading us all together.
Yes. My grandmother's grandfather was in the Civil War. It hit me one day that I knew someone who knew someone that fought in the Civil War!
@@heathernewman5272 geez!
Kevin, Mr. Seymour was not alive in 1850, because as they stated, repeatedly, that he was 5 years old in 1865, when Lincoln was assassinated. You have added 10 years to his age by mistake. Tho, definitely, time is threading us all together.
He was born in 1860.
RUclips gives us a view of the world like never seen before. It is great to be alive at this time and look back at the threads that have weaved this thing we call history.
I can understand why you wanted it on your channel. Wow! Fascinating! And I see that he died two months after the show. What a lovely old man. Great! topic. Thank you!
I was 4 when this aired. Now I feel REALLY old.
you're alright gramps
@@conflictpurple9994 Thanks, kid. I needed that.
Is anyone gonna talk about the fact that this 96 year old man fell down a flight of stairs and is valid afterwards.
@Zetegu Anderson. THE ZODIAK SHOW what the fuck are you talking about LMAO
@Zetegu Anderson. THE ZODIAK SHOW You need to lay off the drugs...
Zetegu Anderson. THE ZODIAK SHOW Nice job
He was 95 not 96
LOL...you are a hoot. Dumb as a rock...but a hoot! lololol
an eyewitness called "see more"
Perfect
good comment!
Seymore butts
Underrated comment
@@usermcskull4713 *Pissed off Moe noises*
It is so important to have first hand accounts as Mr. Seymour demonstrates. In our society today so many are willing to manipulate facts. Thank you for your life and willingness to share what you witness that tragic night.
YES! This is sooooo so true.
I'm glad they archived this
3:25 “Was he ever president, this man?”
“Oh, i think he was...once.”
Such a kind and witty old man
@@Ronnie-Jones What
@@Ronnie-Jones thank you for sharing !! I have been trying to gain much of the knowledge that you have introduced 😉I appreciate your helpful contribution my friend!!!! Peace, love,and happiness to you and yours.
I don’t think it was pleasant
Technically twice
Just imagine if he would have lived another couple of years he could have witnessed Kennedy's Assassination in 1963..almost 100 year's later!!!
He would've lived for 2 assassinations of US Presidents
He's lived through three presidential assassinations. Lincoln (1865), Garfield (1881) and McKinley (1901)
@@devrim4928 and the 4th would have been Kennedy if he had lived a little bit more
11.22.63
Garry Wood Garry, how terribly sad THAT would have made him feel! He would have questioned the entire purpose of his long life. In fact, the JFK assassination might have ended up being his endgame. He would have been 103 years old. But yes, he would have had a most extraordinary autobiography to tell, as the only living American to know the eras of all four assassinated Presidents..
That was well done , thank you
This is living history for modern Americans.
The tragic historical event, the man who remembered it, the film that captured it, and the technology that reproduces it keeps it alive for posterity.
Amazing! 👏
The comments below are interesting as well. The comments add to the experience.
Thank you for posting this video. 📫
Despite all of the stupid stuff on the internet, sometimes you stumble upon things like this...
You're visiting the wrong parts of the internet.
That's why we need to honor our seniors in this country as institutions because they are the last line of defense against fake news...this was truly amazing
I have a severe porn addiction
@@killmefam8321 Well look at it this way..you cant catch an STD or get caught cheating.
I agree! This is gold!
Glad the article was shown at the end of the clip of the show because the link no longer has anything.
Great job, Jayne Meadows!
R.i.p. to Mr. Seymour and President Lincoln! And everyone else in this video!
"Was it a pleasant thing you saw?"
"Not very pleasant, I don't think..."
"I mean, I was scared to death..."
Conflux 😂 haha
Conflux you really are unpleasant
BigToke get the fuck out of here 😒
After Lincoln was shot (which everyone saw), the theater immediately fell into a riot. So no, not a great night for anyone.
This man would have seen the world transform drastically during his lifetime. Born in candlelight when horses roamed the trails, he witnessed the birth of automobiles, airplanes, early space craft, skyscrapers, electricity, radio, motion picture, television, and telephones. He was around when Napoleon III ruled France’s last monarchy, as well witnessed American civil war, reconstruction, the Great Depression, and two world wars.
.... sounds like a long disaster to be witnessed and lived through and I fucking love it😂🤣🤣
We all can say that about any reasonably long life. I was a year old when this was broadcast. KKK were still lynching folk. The British Empire still thought it was an Empire. There was nothing much to speak of in space and personal computers weren't even on science fictions radar. The Cold war was still a thing and America was still living in it's post war boom. We had, and still have South American Death squads backed by the CIA. The world was collectively shitting itself at the thought of a nuclear holocaust, and then the Cuban Missile thing came along and some folks really did shit themselves. Many folks who really should have known better still thought that Communism/Marxism was going to save humanity from the Capitalist running dogs. Then we read the Gulag archipelago and found out (eventually) the true cost of Chairman Mao's Great Leap forward. We saw the advent of mobile/cell phones and information gathering on a scale that would have had J. Edgar Hoover creaming his favourite dress in delight. We are seeing the subtle and not so subtle ploys of the Chinese and the Russians to foment dissent and destabilise the western hegemony. We see the rise of Neo Marxists latching onto every conceivable cause in order to gain a political ascendancy. We are reaping the benefits of decades of wilful denial regarding our impact on the planet. The seas are full of that wonderful substance that was so going to improve the quality of everyone's life. The air is full of the shit from all those day trips to the coast. The internet is full of trolls and scammers and people you definitely would not want to take home for dinner.
So yes, he saw some changes. Well... so have we all.
My husband's father rode a horse from his farm to a 1 room schoolhouse as a kid. Was the first group to take this new test called the SAT. When he got a perfect score GA Tech and MIT called the farm. He went to MIT.
I was born back in the day when movies were worth seeing. 12 eggs was $.86 cent milk was $1.35 a gallon AND THAT WAS ONLY 1983 🤣🤣.
That's funny. I've pondered this before, what people saw the world change the most in their lifetimes. And while an argument can be made for current super-old people who may have experienced the Depression, I think the nod goes to guys like this in that 1860-1950 range.
Good stuff, kudos for sharing!
This show REALLY makes me feel young & I'm currently 62 yrs old
Thats like someone witnessing JFK’s assassination and being interviewed in 2050 then that interview being shown in 2119!!
Or someone who was in NYC on 9/11 in 2001 being interviewed about it in 2092 and then people watching that video in 2155.
I was in 8th grade and my school was about 3 miles from Dealy Plaza. My school let anyone who wanted to go see Kennedy that day to do so. I chose not to go, but my friends and classmates who did go witnessed JFK's assassination. I am so glad I didn't go, my friends were highly traumatized. Years later I ended up working at Parkland hospital as a nurse, and I also worked with the attending doctors who tried to save Kennedy on that fateful day. I just turned 70.
You just had to bring math into this...
jk
And?
2054 and 2117 would be correct math on JFK. Sorry.
"I witnessed Lincoln getting shot"
*crowd cheers and claps*
Confederate sympathizers?
@@mmjahink I mean it was the 50's soo 👀
@@alwaysbroke188 I think it would be a painful memory to which have been borne witness
Equivalent of clicking like when someone post a loved one has died
mmjahink lmao wat? Pretty sure they applaud because they realise that in front of them is a man who witnessed a historic event.
Every once in a while this video shows up in my suggested feed and I always give it a go. Wild.
My goodness, this is truly incredible!
Can’t imagine the change he saw in his lifetime. From horse and carts to automobiles and planes.
Heck, I was born in 1960 and *I've* witnessed all kinds of changes in technology, social trends, etc. We have a younger crowd today who has never used a landline / rotary phone, never had to get up from the couch to change the dial in the TV, heck, never even had a whiff of what the world was like before computer technology and the internet age! The times, they are a-changin' as Bob Dylan sang, and they KEEP changing at an ever-accelerating rate! 😱
EVERYONE who lives a long life witness that much change lol
vincent sartain you don’t talk your age💀
@@tannerhall3856 How do you mean? :-)
@William Wykoff You mean like I'm between 18 and 34 or something? NAH. If you listen to me long enough you'll soon have me pegged for an old fart of 58.😁
But... dude. Ok. This guy fell down stairs and was so determined to get onto this show to be broadcast to the world, he fought through it. So it went out on TV in February of 1956 and he died two months later.
...And now I'm watching it on RUclips in 2021. All because Sam Seymour wasn't gonna let some stupid staircase get in his way. Respect.
Map props
Mad drops
Wow
100% This guy knew what the fuck was up.
Now that's determination right there
This man witnessed one of the most mind blowing stuff that ever happened in the history of US Presidents.
I don't know about that. I still think JFK is even more mind blowing.
I don't know if I would describe it as "mind-blowing."
This is amazing!
“Did Mr. Seymour witness Abriham Lincoln’s death?”
Audience: *CLAPS*
Abraham*
@@user-hw2re4gd7w abruham*
Aryana are u stupid?
@@user-hw2re4gd7w no but do u hear that?
@@user-hw2re4gd7w its the joke going over ur head
"was it a pleasant thing you saw?"
"Not very pleasant, I don't think"
Even at 95, he still has a sense of humor
Frankly, i don't see anything funny about what Mr. Seymour said. Mr. Seymour did not even smile either.
Tim Markell It was what the brits call over your head comedy.
@@ELLIOT1311 @Elliot Belliss ok then explain it to me. Jayne Mansfield asked if it was a pleasant thing. Mr. Seymour replies "not very pleasant. I don't think [it was pleasant]."---what the heck is funny about that?
Tim Markell Relax. It is funny because it was a horrible thing and it was explained so lightly. You’re looking into it way too deep.
There is nothing funny about a president being assassinated
wow. I just love this show and always find such fascinating guests. Imagine witnessing Lincoln's assassination
Allow me to add my remarks… This is a unique video in the history of our country. Mr. Seymour was blessed to have lived to tell this story for posterity. What an amazing story to tell! I did wonder if the panelists were clued in beforehand. They had no trouble honing right in on the exact event, which seems a little suspect. 🤔
The being born in 1860 clue made it easy.
This man witnessed Lincoln's murder at 5 years old. He lived to be 96 and the memory still haunted him his entire life. That's eerie. Bless him.
This is the type of stuff I love. Not...not the assassination. I mean history. I love hearing about how things were done before and even love the songs of yesteryear. I'm 27 and I'm listening to songs my grandmother had growing up in the 50's. Looking at old pictures, listening to old phonographs, hearing stories about how things were and life in a past year. I love history so much. I'm a nerd for it and I would listen for hours to my grandma(rest her soul) tell stories about being in Vietnam, being a nurse in hospitals, seeing the statue of liberty before it was fully green....people swear I was born in the wrong era.
He didn't witness the actual shooting, just the aftermath .
Lol it's a FREEMASONIC hoax.. Wake up. Quit being like the lost sheep believing everything you see on television and on the news. It's propaganda
@@Aaroncarter95 you're a fool
And it all ended up being entertainment fodder for a game show
Ok, I am looking at a person who witnessed Abraham Lincoln getting murdered.
He didn’t witness it. Witness the shooter jumping and breaking his leg. Did you watch the video at all? 😩
@@jasonups5386 Same thing.
@@jasonups5386 Don't be a dick.
@Soviet Union General Justin Y. Seems so.
@Soviet Union General Justin Y. 😔
It's insane to think about not only how old this man was at the time of the recording and then how old the recording is itself. I can't even imagine how long it's been since Mr. Seymour has passed on, I wonder how long ago his parents did too or theirs. I wonder if he had any children and if so where they are today. Time is so dang weird.
Wow AMAZING!!!!! Love these wonderful stories !!!! Bring this game show back !!!
In 2092: "I saw the 2 airplanes hit the World Trade Centers"
*Audience Applause*
2072 Me 96, "Ronald Reagan patted me on the head when I was a child" ...........boooooooooooo
Lol by then the audience will probably be in mars applauding
@@movedon-deadchannel2685 Boomer alert.
@Hand Made Human true
Home Depot KKTK TMQTA lets hope we can fix this soon enough 😰😢
And he died only a couple months later. I’m so glad he had the opportunity to tell his story, recorded for the world to remember him by.
I wonder if the fall he encountered in the hotel while waiting to film the show had any bearing on his death
James Yancey so hard to say. May God bless him and his generation. They worked hard, didn’t ask for anything, and wanted nothing more than to set successive generations up for success.
@@jamesyancey4854 I was just wondering that. Blood clot may have formed. A time bomb for the poor fellow.
Cause of that shiner 😉
The last soldier of The War Between the States died in 1959 .Confederate. Age 117
This is incredible. 😳
I watched this about 20 times and it still won’t get off my feed
one day i will be nearing death, and tell everyone that i witnessed a man speak about how lincoln died.
And that we witnessed the First black president
And witnessed endgame
And porn and me also
Kim Jung un 😂
@@erstmaleinoettinger3784 Doesn't mean anything. Especially when he was the worst one.
"Would this person ever have been the president of the United States?"
"I think he was once."
WHAT A LEGEND!
SnappyPenguin566 lol oof
Major oof
Uhh...why?
@@greenllama2856 not an oof. Classic northern Yankee wry expression. Sounds like my Grandfather, and countless others.
Why “oof”? Dude dropped some dry humor on that panel. I cracked up the first time I heard it.
We need to bring this show back. Imagine all of the experiences we would get to hear of
What do you mean, bring this show back? Virtually every talk show is something like this.
Not all episodes of To Tell the Truth were this interesting.
I had an idk how many great, great-aunt that was born in 1880 and in 1986. I loved hearing all the stories she would tell about history. It was better then any history book I've ever read in my life.
It's incredible that he passed just 2 months after this taping. It would have been a damn shame if his story never got out, and now look at us! 65 years after this airs, his story is still able to be told to us!
Mr. Seymour was bound and determined to go on that show despite the accident that gave him a black eye. He has my utmost respect.
His story did get told via the newspaper article before the show even knew anything about him.
@@LittleFatFeet68 that newspaper article would now be long gone, the point of my comment is how wonderful we have RUclips to broadcast his story 65 years later still, not losing this form of media
When you are that old, you know you could go any day, so if you're smart, you don't pass up opportunities to do things like this.
You know I've seen this many times people live to a certain age because of a certain reason and this man living to 96 and coming on TV was all about preserving history and once he did that and got it off his mind he was able to go meet his maker and fall asleep and pass on to the spirit world. It obviously was great importance for him to tell this bit of History and he was at peace when he passed away
The fact that the game show host is smoking a cigarette (1:40) while the show is live is the most 1950s thing ever.
@TrashPanda Raccoon Ah, those days! The quaintness of it all.
You'll see that up into the 1970s too. I think 1980s people were starting to become aware of dangers of smoking.
The shows back then had corporate sponsors and often they were cigarette companies because they had a ton of cash and saw the tv format fitting to portray how cool one looks smoking their product.
The name "Winston" was plastered all over the the desk so yeah, it was sponsored by a cigarette manufacturer.
Back in the early 80's you could sit and smoke in the mall !!
This is without question one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. This is the type of stuff our kids should be seeing and learning so they have a deep understanding of our complicated but incredible history. They can learn how to respect it to help them know in the future what to not repeat and what to build from.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Mr.Seymours father or grandfather probably fought in the Revolutionary War. Man the stories he could tell
The applause of dead people
Applauding that a now dead man
Witnessed someone dying
And in time people wil read these comments from dead people
Lol
I'm sure not necessarily all of the people in this audience are dead.
That's a gem for our generations. Ive been running through alot of these elderly folks videos from back then . It's really interesting
@Conflux thats an interesting take
And 2 months 4 days later he passed away. I guess it was destined that he share what he saw with the rest of us...may Mr. Seymour Rest in peace!
Damn! Thank you Mr Seymour for this wonderful gift
@R At the end they show a newspaper supporting his claims
@R it's plausible enough to go either way
He died on April 12 and Lincoln was shot on April 14 could have been a weird coincidence if he lived for 2 more days
I don't think destiny's got anything to do with a 96 year old dying, no matter how it's timed lol.
It's very interesting that he shared his story about what happened that night of April 14, 1865
This video been in my recommended for a month and I’m finally watching it and I’m happy I did
This man died 2 months after this was filmed
RIP
Yes for all that smoke that host was blowing at his face
@@clickbait7322 Oh, give it a rest.
Maybe due to the severe head trauma
@@mariaescandon8022 On my husband's account-Unfortunately probably true,R.I.P. Mr.Samuel J. Seymour
@@WATERMELONZZZ123
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It’s weird to think that if you were alive in 1960 there were many people alive from the 1800s
It’s kinda cool in a way
I have an uncle who was around in the 40's
@@TsarumanTheWhite It happens
My great-grandmother died in 1980 at the age of 96, born in 1884. I watched the first moon landing with her in 1969, she was more amazed than I was, but then again I was only 6 at the time, she was 85 then. I knew it was a big deal though. She was born just 19 years after the civil war ended, still fresh in just about everyone's mind, not too long after this man was born.
The believe it or not, the last person who was born in the 1800s died in 2017.
This is just amazing footage
Amazing...Bless you Sir..
Poor man even had an injury and still wanted to come on the show. Glad he did, this is historic.
I respect the shit out of him, he was so old and could have decided to go home and take a nap, but no he decided to come to the show while enduring his pain and tell everyone what he saw. If I find his grave I will always put flowers by his tomb because he is one in a million that is so selfless.
@@vivianjordaan3096 We don't even know if he was telling the truth. Lol
@@iamwhoyousayiam6773 well everybody believes old people.
@@iamwhoyousayiam6773 I'm sure he is being truthful.
@@iamwhoyousayiam6773 I mean he was 95. He was at deaths door(literally died later that year). Why lie?
This man lived through the Civil War, WW1, and WW2, and then broke his leg and still went on this show, sadly he passed away a mere 2 months after his appearance. RIP
His legacy will live on
@0ddst3r the civil war was from 1861-1865, he was born in 1860. Yes he did live through the civil war, learn your history. M
@0ddst3r 🙄
John Wilkes Booth broke his leg when he jumped from the balcony. Not Mr. Seymour on his way to the show.
No shit douche
Wow amazing video of this man. Would of loved to sit down and listen to his stories!
This is absolutely something incredible
This is the internet working as it should. Providing information and insight that we normally would not have without this outlet.
Well put
Amen
Lincoln lover needs to push on
Exactly 👍
Facts damn