Old Ppl

This Man Witnessed Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

By Rosie Gray Thu., Aug. 4 2011 at 2:20 PM
Categories: Assassinations, Historical Shit, History, Old Age, Old Ppl, Rosie Gray, Video

This is a TV appearance from 1956, by a 96-year-old man named Samuel Seymour:

As a five-year-old boy, he saw John Wilkes Booth shoot Abraham Lincoln. Which happened in 1865.

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