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Oct 18, 2012

Man Who Witnessed Lincoln’s Assassination Was on a Game Show in 1956

Samuel J. Seymour, who was a five-year-old boy who was in the audience at Ford’s Theatre the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot, lived long enough to appear on a television game show in 1956.

 
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