Last witness reappears on YouTube
A rare TV appearance of the last surviving person to witness the assassination of Abraham Lincoln's assassination has turned up on YouTube.
The video is from a February 1956 episode of the TV game show I've Got a Secret.
The show involved a notable person with a celebrity panel whose job it was to guess the secret behind what made the guest so famous.
Samuel J Seymour appeared on the show about two years after his story was written in the pages of the Milwaukee Sentinel, in which he recounted the day Lincoln was assassinated. Seymour said he did not realize Lincoln had been shot, only that he saw a man jump from the balcony. He died on April 12, 1956.
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