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 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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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 TH-cam. 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.
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.
@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.
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.
This was filmed just 63 days before he passed away. Its actually insane that the human brain, at the very end of its life, can still remember video, audio, and thoughts from 91 years prior.
It's easier for the brain to remember bad things because they were important lessons to stay alive when we were cave people. We're hard wired to remember the worst parts of our lives. And thank goodness he didn't have alzheimers.
I recall reading somewhere that when you recall things, you overwrite them in your brain, and surely this man would recall this event constantly throughout his life
Events in our life time..some that we can't forget... Not knowing your age.. I'm in my 70s.. I still remember .of where I was .what I was doing and time of day.. Of when JFK was assassinated.. And also the assassination of R.F.K-- two great Men in American History.. GOD Rest their Souls..
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-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!
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
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.
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.
If you have a couple of minutes -- 1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound) th-cam.com/video/aohXOpKtns0/w-d-xo.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.
@@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
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I'm 70 years old, i was born in Paris in 1954, your video is outstanding , seeing a Man.who saw Booth jumping from the balcony! Wow! I 'm.speechless! God bless you all! And of course the Soul of Mister Seymoure! Thank once again for your very stunning video! It's worthy! Denis frim France...
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
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.
TH-cam 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.
"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.
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! 😱
@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.😁
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!
@@LittleFatFeet68 that newspaper article would now be long gone, the point of my comment is how wonderful we have TH-cam to broadcast his story 65 years later still, not losing this form of media
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
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 TH-cam in 2021. All because Sam Seymour wasn't gonna let some stupid staircase get in his way. Respect.
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.
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.
This guy grew up with horses and steam, that is mental, just woke up so idk if this is accurate, but he was born in the 1840s, saw the civil war, Lincoln obviously, disease famine, the height of the wild west and the taming of it, women's rights movements, seeing slavery go from highly lucrative business to highly illegal, the prohibition, the banning and unbanning of so many things, watching horses, to cars and horses, to cars. From the world of steam to watching nikola tesla pioneer electricity in the news, doubting it and then watching its rise 50 years later, seeing the empire states being built, the hindenberg, the titanic, hearing political unrest turn into years of conflict twice, the invention of moving films to TV the skyrocket of the technology curve, from revolvers and experimental pistols to fully automatic, the invention of rocket ships, men going to space and the looming threat of being blown to bits by the atomic bomb, could you imagine just telling this guy anything from the future when he was in his 20s.
@@UraniumBullets He meant in the 1900s era. Now I think he is wrong but I dont blame him for that idea simply because the government had Drones for warfare reasons in 1980. They hide alot.
This has got to be THE most remarkable video I've ever seen on TH-cam! Truly amazing Mr. Seymour! When you look at all the crap that is normally shown on TH-cam this is exceptional and will definitely be remembered. Thanks Mr. Seymour.
@@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! 👍🇬🇧
@@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
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..
@@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!
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..
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.
"It's been an honor to meet the ONLY living witness..." Imagine the feeling that everyone in this video died already, and the fact that this is 64 years ago. The people at that stage were lucky to meet him. Damn. I say that it is an HONOR for us to witness this clip wherein they express how good it was to meet the man who witnessed something memorable in 1865. WOW. JUST WOW.
It is amazing. I was glad I saw this video. So many people today don't honor our seniors. They forget about them as they are worthless. Forgetting that one day they will be a senior themselves. Love & respect our seniors they are full of knowledge.
People just don’t realize how recent 1865 really was in our history. The Roman Empire peaked nearly 2000 years ago. Vikings declined nearly 1000 years ago. Meanwhile the civil war only happened 155-160 years ago. There are still some people alive today born in the 1900s but mostly 1910s who knew people that lived through the civil war.
Why? He was like 5 yrs old. What exactly do you recall from before say 7 or 8 even. Very little. Edit. To my repliers. I didn’t say he doesn’t remember something….you know, like a “scary scene man…” The original comment from A desh was that this should be an interview. If you watch the end of the video, as I had btw, you read an interview of what the gentleman claims to have saw and his thoughts and words actually at the assignation. …IMO I believe there is no way a five year old recalls or processes details, regardless what unfolded, of that level of maturity as he does. No way. I believe he was there, as well as adults with him, and over the course of decades he has the memory and yes you can say he witnessed Lincoln’s murder.
The man was clearly very old and weary to hold an interview that's lengthy enough to broadcast on TV. Notice how the video description indicates his date of death shortly after his appearance in the program. They mostly just brought him to the cameras to show off a living relic.
The ignorance baffles me... back in those days there was no such thing as "documentaries".. this game made history, had amazing personalities, including Lucille Ball, John Wayne, etc. Amazing program, more than just a common "game show". By the way, people used to read books, tons, to learn about what this man just told. Do people even read anymore? Nope, they go to youtube and cheat by watching documentaries.
You're watching a man on videotape that was a 40-year old middle-aged man in the year 1900. This man enjoyed his fruitful years in the 1880s and lived until almost 1960 to tell us he witnessed Lincoln being shot. Unreal. Thank god for footage like this.
@@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'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
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.
God bless that man's soul. When you put things into historical perspective, Mr. Seymour was blessed to have been able to see the following things after Lincoln was shot: 1. The invention of the modern light bulb and the common use of electricity. 2. The invention of the automobile and, later on, the modern Interstate highway system. 3. The invention of modern flight and the introduction of air travel. 4. Two World Wars 5. The Great Depression. 6. The invention of radio and television. 7. Baseball and its evolution, from stars like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth to Ted Williams and Willie Mays. What an incredible life that man lived...
Im almost 65 yrs old. So when i was 6, I met an extremely old lady who lived at the end of our street in 1963. She was 102. She walked very slow with a cane and would watch us play. sometimes we watched her do laundry from a wringer washer! She made us stay away because it was dangerous for us to be around. It was a real interesting thing to watch! Anyway, one day she told me that her parents took her to see President Lincoln give his Emancipation Proclamation speech! I didnt fully understand but she told me how she was just a little girl and her Dad put her on his shoulders to watch him speak. She talked about how cold it was but everyone was excited to hear President Lincoln. President Lincoln spoke January 1, 1863! A few mos later that lady passed away. I never forgot her. ❤️
I wonder how much she remembered of it vs her parents recounting the day to her over the years. No doubt it’s possible she remembers (I and others I know have tiny faint memories of anything prior to 3 years old) but I’m inclined to think it was a story told time and time again, particularly after Lincoln’s death, so some of the “memory” was created rather than actually memorized. Either way, super cool that she was there for it!
That reminds me of a old man that lived in the city here, i wont mention his name because he was well known here but i'l tell what he told me. It's a story he only told a few people because it's a theme people are desperatly try to forget/hide. He was born in 1938 and was 7 years old in 1945 close to the end of the war. The city remained for a miraculously relative untouched by allied bombing untill that faitfull night when American Bombers were coming. He knew they were American because next to his house and exactly next to his room was a communicationsbuilding and if you were quiet and listened to the wall you could barely hear the radio operators. Shortly after that the air raid sirens wend off and he fled with his sister to the shelter. His mom was at the moment in the hospital for a operation. His dad was visiting there. During the whole bombardment he kept waiting for those doors to open and his parents to come. But they never did. After the bombardment they'r house was gone and they had nowhere to go or to stay. Dutch Nurses of the red cross took care of him and his sister. But the situation was getting bad and the allies were closing in. There was not a chanse to evacuate and they had to endure 1 day of close city fighting untill the civillians begged the Wehrmacht to surrender to prevent even more losses. As the fighting stopped he and his sister crawled out of they'r hiding spot only to walk into a American soldier who pointed his M1 Garand right between his eyes. This made such a deep inpact on him he told me exactly how the soldier looked like to what gear he was wearing. Ever sinds that moment he had a deep grudge against U.S soldiers. It might not be a story everyone is exited to hear, but if nobody shares it, it will be lost to time forever.
My mother's family lived on a farm in New England. The 'town' would send old folks to live on the farm and my grandparents would be their caretakers, like some kind of old folks home. They called the place the 'Town Farm". when my mother was a young girl, one of the elderly women that lived on the farm was the widow of a civil war veteran. It still amazes me that today, in 2021, I can hold the hand of someone who held the hand of a window of a civil war veteran. To be fair, the lady must have been quite young and married off to a nearly elderly man... just so weird to think about.
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.
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.
When Seymour was born, Lemuel Cook, the last surviving official veteran of the Revolutionary War, was still alive. He died when Seymour was 6 years old.
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 feel privileged to have heard this man’s voice and to have seen him. This is an experience that will be carried across the generations, and it’s incredible to have witnessed a recording of his recounting.
John Wilkes Booth was hired by JESUITS TO KILL LINCOLN. It started with Former Roman Catholic Priest Charles Chiniquy. The jesuits tried to get him hanged for exposing them in his book "50 years in the Church of Rome". The Jesuits conspired to bring a false accusation against him, but Abraham Lincoln defended Chiniquy as his lawyer. It was Abraham Lincoln's most high profile case. After a lady named Mrs. Philomene Moffat gave her oath of how she overheard the Jesuit telling his sister to accuse him of inappropriate behavior with her, telling her to do this and he will just forgive her of her sins, she went to the trial to give her testimony. That's what saved Charles Chiniquy. When Lincoln became president he felt it was God's will to free the slaves. He was later murdered by Booth because of the jesuits. Booth said: "I can never repent. God simply made me the instrument of his (Lincoln's) punishment...Booth pressing the medal of the virgin Mary to his breast, when falling mortally wounded "-Trial of Surratt, Volume 1, page 310 From Chiniquy's testimony: "My dear President, I must repeat to you here what I said when at Urbana in 1856. My fear is that you will fall under the blows of a Jesuit assassin if you do not pay more attention than you have done, till now, to protect yourself. Remember that because Coligny was an heretic, as you are, he was brutally murdered in the St. Bartholomew night; that Henry IV. was stabbed by the Jesuit assassin, Revaillac, the 14th of May, 1610, for having given liberty of conscience to his people; and that William the Taciturn was shot dead by another Jesuit murderer, called Girard, for having broken the yoke of the Pope. The Church of Rome is absolutely the same today as she was then; she does believe and teach today, as then, that she has the right and that it is her duty to punish by death any heretic who is in her way as an obstacle to her designs. The unanimity with which the Catholic hierarchy of the United States is on the side of the rebels is an incontrovertible evidence that Rome wants to destroy this republic, and as you are, by your personal virtues, your popularity, your love for liberty, your position, the greatest obstacle to the diabolical schemes, their hatred is concentrated upon you; you are the daily object of their maledictions; it is at your breast they will direct their blows. My blood chills in my veins when I contemplate the day which may come, sooner or later, when Rome will add to all her other iniquities the murder of Abraham Lincoln." When saying these things to the President, I was exceedingly moved, my voice was as choked, and I could hardly retain my tears. But the President was perfectly calm. When I had finished speaking, he took the volume of Busembaum from my hand, read the lines which I had marked with red ink, and I helped him to translate them into English. He then gave me back the book, and said: "I will repeat to you what I said at Urbana, when for the first time you told me your fears lest I would be assassinated by the Jesuits: 'Man must not care where and when he will die, provided he dies at the post of honour and duty.' But I may add, today, that I have a presentiment that God will call me to Him through the hand of an assassin. Let His will, and, not mine be done!"-"50 Years in the Church of Rome",1885, page 350
@@weirdchamp4601, I didn't ask for your opinion, but yes, ignorant fools such as yourself may not care. However, intelligent truth seeking individuals would care why Booth killed a great Christian U.S. President like Lincoln. "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion."-Proverbs 18:12
This man deciding to go on this show with his "shiner" despite the wishes of the showrunners was the greatest decision he could have made. He knew this was going to last.
I know it's not as impressive as this, but my grandmother just turned 100 last December, and when she was a little girl her next door neighbor was an old man who was a civil war veteran.
It's not a competition, that's actually real cool, I live in Mexico but my grandpa's brother in law was a World War 2 vet, I always regreted not meeting him because of the stories he probably could've told
@@joseantonioespinosagonzale1500 Thanks man! I always thought it was pretty crazy myself! Both of my Grandparents (they're deceased) were WW2 vets. My grandmother actually kept all the letters that my grandfather wrote to her while he was overseas.
@@Kment011 That's cool! Those letters must mean a lot to her. Down here it's not really common to have vets for relatives so I always tought it was cool to have a political grand uncle who fought in Germany and Korea, specially cause he wasn't born in the states but a small town in southern Mexico, wish I'd met, probably had some stories to tell.
I looked him up. He died only a few months after this aired. It's like he knew his time was limited and was determined to appear on the show and tell his story.
@@germanyball982 There is nothing disrespectful about commenting on someone’s age, especially when that person is decades over the median life span. We’ll all die at some point - some later than others. By accepting this fact, like the gentleman in the video surely had, you’ll be able to appreciate life to its fullest.
He died just 2 days before the 90th anniversary of Lincoln's shooting. He died 64 days after this interview. It interests me that there are many people that are interviewed short times before their deaths, even if they weren't very famous. The fact that he died so close to the anniversary of the event is even more shocking.
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.
It is only 300 or so years I believe so if lucky to live to be 90 to 100, 3 people could give so much information. This will have downsides since one person probably can't do everything such as live through wars or even live to be of this age. So take what i say with a grain of salt.
ColasTeam no shit, you know what I meant. The land they had probably was country you guys call “America “ to them. But we will never know because the Europeans were aliens to the natives and didn’t speak their language most were killed and forced to move else where.
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!
@@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?
"was this person a president?" Mr Seimour: "I think he was once, yes" I'm a huge history nerd but the thing that I value most in my studies is that I discover that there always existed people who had a good sense of humour.
@@basicallystupid7080 I am the type of person who would have given that same sarcastic response, even though the other people are asking because they don't know who it is
He lived through some tough times. Aside from the assasination which occurred around the civil war period, he had to live through WW1, Spanish flu, WWII. Cant imagine the horrors he has witnessed.
He felt the evil foreboding feeling ever since he rode into Washington DC. Jesuit assassins were plotting Lincoln’s murder ever since he defended that priest Chas. Chiniquy. But they’ve basically rewritten that “history”. See book by Jack Chick for accurate history. Super good read 👍🏻
@@Pamela.B yeah i read chiniquy's book...lincoln was a piece of crap, and 600k whites died for absolutely nothing exc to give the new york/london bankers control of the southern trade/ports
This is mind blowing. A video posted in TH-cam in 2016 of an interview from 1956 where the host speaks to a man who saw the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The man was born in 1860. His life overlapped with the lives of revolutionary war veterans. There is so much history here.
@@alainportant6412 Was born in 55. If I were a bible believing kind of guy, I'd tell ya there would be a better chance of me talking to JFK , then talking about him to a great great grandkid
@@alainportant6412 I think that'll have more living witnesses since people live longer and a lot of people saw it also unlike Lincoln's assassination we can JFK assassination on youtube
It's really too bad this was a game show rather than a proper interview. I'd love to hear or read more about this man and what he remembers. This country is still in its infancy, and this video is a testament to that.
Think about it, though: not only did this guy witness the assassination of one of our most beloved presidents Abraham Lincoln, he also lived through the Civil War and two World Wars. He must've been INCREDIBLE to have a conversation with.
Not only that, but he witnessed the rise and fall of what we now call the Old West, the Spanish-American war, the invention of the automobile, the airplane, and other significant historical events.
Well, he was only 5 when he saw Lincoln assassinated and that was pretty much after the Civil War was over. But hell yeah, this guy lived through so much. If people today want to speak to someone significant they only need to find a holocaust Survivor or a survivor of Hiroshima.
I can’t even imagine what he saw in his life! My own late grandmother always talked about how she went from horse and buggy to man on the moon - all in her own lifetime.
I’m sure we could have learned way much more from him than any of our school teachers. 🤷🏿♂️ experience is much much more precious knowledge to be gained.
"Was this man president of the United States?" "I think he was, once" For an old guy with a head injury and hearing issues, he still had quite the sense of humor! :D
Hahaha. Many thanks to all the wonderful people that gave us the great television shows. They preserved our history for our posterity and by watching it, we feel connected knowing it wasn't as long ago as we feel that it was. My grandmother talked about being 5 yrs old and riding the buck board from Maine to Florida. One of her cousins was the first in her county to die due to an auto accident. Something having to do with riding on the side of vehicle, hitting a cow at 25mph and being thrown head first into a tree. My grand daughter asked me about a payphone she saw in an "old" music video (70's-80's).
Our lives are nothing when compared to geological time on of this planet. And "Deep Time" the billions and billion of years in the universe, makes our lives seem insignificant.
CooCooWizard no bro you got the whole reason of religion wrong, take a psych class, religion is not meant for you to believe in something strictly, it’s for you to reason it on how you want to be, it’s the same thing for atheist, just because you don’t believe in god, doesn’t mean you don’t believe there is something else. You are arguing with the basis of humanity. Religion isn’t meant to brain wash you. If you think you are smarter for not believing in god. Than it comes to show that you aren’t able to understand The complex aspects of life.
He was born in 1860, witnessed Lincoln’s assassination when he was five years old…told the world about it in 1956, 91 years later, and we’re watching him tell us in 2024, 68 years later…that’s crazy.
Two months after this appearance, Samuel Seymour died at the age of 96. He died April 12, 1956 at the home of his daughter, and was survived by five children, thirteen grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren.
yes . he tell his historic secret before he dies. and one more thing . is rare to survive 96 years old today , but in 1956 was like one of the most long living people alive
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.
![Witness to President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Speaks: Enhanced Video & Audio [60 fps]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q6IFEE_CM-I/mqdefault.jpg)
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
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).
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.
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.
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 TH-cam. 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? 😂😂😂
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.
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
This was filmed just 63 days before he passed away. Its actually insane that the human brain, at the very end of its life, can still remember video, audio, and thoughts from 91 years prior.
It's easier for the brain to remember bad things because they were important lessons to stay alive when we were cave people. We're hard wired to remember the worst parts of our lives. And thank goodness he didn't have alzheimers.
I recall reading somewhere that when you recall things, you overwrite them in your brain, and surely this man would recall this event constantly throughout his life
Visual and auditory memories
@@cutecats532 True, each brain that belongs to a Alzheimer’s patient is like a depressing Library of Alexandria
Events in our life time..some that we can't forget...
Not knowing your age.. I'm in my 70s.. I still remember
.of where I was
.what I was doing and time of day..
Of when JFK was assassinated..
And also the assassination of
R.F.K-- two great Men in American History..
GOD Rest their Souls..
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? : )
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...
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.
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.
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
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!!
When a 96 year-old wants to go on TV.
You let him.
@Mathew Mus 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*
shit you just won the internet lol
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 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) th-cam.com/video/aohXOpKtns0/w-d-xo.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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I like how this was recommended by the algorithm.
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.
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 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.
I'm 70 years old, i was born in Paris in 1954, your video is outstanding , seeing a Man.who saw Booth jumping from the balcony! Wow! I 'm.speechless! God bless you all! And of course the Soul of Mister Seymoure! Thank once again for your very stunning video! It's worthy! Denis frim France...
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.
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.
TH-cam 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.
**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
"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.
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.😁
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 TH-cam 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
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 TH-cam 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
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
is he still alive?
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 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
The fact that there were people around during Lincoln’s presidency that were also alive when tvs were a thing is incredible.
They probably had TVs long before it was given to the public. That's usually how it goes. Like cell phones where mostly for military
@@MetaITurtle They? As in people who worked with Lincoln? Do you honestly believe there were TV's during the civil war era?
@@UraniumBullets No
This guy grew up with horses and steam, that is mental, just woke up so idk if this is accurate, but he was born in the 1840s, saw the civil war, Lincoln obviously, disease famine, the height of the wild west and the taming of it, women's rights movements, seeing slavery go from highly lucrative business to highly illegal, the prohibition, the banning and unbanning of so many things, watching horses, to cars and horses, to cars. From the world of steam to watching nikola tesla pioneer electricity in the news, doubting it and then watching its rise 50 years later, seeing the empire states being built, the hindenberg, the titanic, hearing political unrest turn into years of conflict twice, the invention of moving films to TV the skyrocket of the technology curve, from revolvers and experimental pistols to fully automatic, the invention of rocket ships, men going to space and the looming threat of being blown to bits by the atomic bomb, could you imagine just telling this guy anything from the future when he was in his 20s.
@@UraniumBullets He meant in the 1900s era. Now I think he is wrong but I dont blame him for that idea simply because the government had Drones for warfare reasons in 1980. They hide alot.
This has got to be THE most remarkable video I've ever seen on TH-cam! Truly amazing Mr. Seymour! When you look at all the crap that is normally shown on TH-cam 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
"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.
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.
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
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!
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..
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.
"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.
The last excerpt from the article gave me chills. The trauma from that night haunted him to the very end...
"It's been an honor to meet the ONLY living witness..."
Imagine the feeling that everyone in this video died already, and the fact that this is 64 years ago. The people at that stage were lucky to meet him. Damn. I say that it is an HONOR for us to witness this clip wherein they express how good it was to meet the man who witnessed something memorable in 1865. WOW. JUST WOW.
They could still be alive.
my grandmother was in that crowd and she’s still alive.
That just shows how not so long ago the civil war was.. 2 people living back to back. That's all. Slavery ended. Think about that.
It is amazing. I was glad I saw this video. So many people today don't honor our seniors. They forget about them as they are worthless. Forgetting that one day they will be a senior themselves. Love & respect our seniors they are full of knowledge.
People just don’t realize how recent 1865 really was in our history. The Roman Empire peaked nearly 2000 years ago. Vikings declined nearly 1000 years ago. Meanwhile the civil war only happened 155-160 years ago. There are still some people alive today born in the 1900s but mostly 1910s who knew people that lived through the civil war.
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
This should’ve been an interview not a game show.
"He said he wouldn't miss it" does imply that this may have been the way he _wanted_ to tell his story.
Why? He was like 5 yrs old. What exactly do you recall from before say 7 or 8 even. Very little.
Edit. To my repliers. I didn’t say he doesn’t remember something….you know,
like a “scary scene man…”
The original comment from A desh was that this should be an interview. If you watch the end of the video, as I had btw, you read an interview of what the gentleman claims to have saw and his thoughts and words actually at the assignation. …IMO
I believe there is no way a five year old recalls or processes details, regardless what unfolded, of that level of maturity as he does. No way. I believe he was there, as well as adults with him, and over the course of decades he has the memory and yes you can say he witnessed Lincoln’s murder.
The fact that he said he wouldn’t miss it says this is the way he wanted his story told
The man was clearly very old and weary to hold an interview that's lengthy enough to broadcast on TV. Notice how the video description indicates his date of death shortly after his appearance in the program. They mostly just brought him to the cameras to show off a living relic.
The ignorance baffles me... back in those days there was no such thing as "documentaries".. this game made history, had amazing personalities, including Lucille Ball, John Wayne, etc. Amazing program, more than just a common "game show". By the way, people used to read books, tons, to learn about what this man just told. Do people even read anymore? Nope, they go to youtube and cheat by watching documentaries.
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
You're watching a man on videotape that was a 40-year old middle-aged man in the year 1900. This man enjoyed his fruitful years in the 1880s and lived until almost 1960 to tell us he witnessed Lincoln being shot. Unreal. Thank god for footage like this.
You win this thread !
more like thank whoever filmed this, invisible man in the sky didn't film this
@@Oshidorinohina Haha, funny, fuck off, be tolerant
@@viveka2994 You preach tolerance but tell me to fuck off okay LOL
Except that it is real. Unreal is such a stupid thing to say.
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
"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.
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
an eyewitness called "see more"
Perfect
good comment!
Seymore butts
Underrated comment
@@usermcskull4713 *Pissed off Moe noises*
“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.
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.
God bless that man's soul. When you put things into historical perspective, Mr. Seymour was blessed to have been able to see the following things after Lincoln was shot:
1. The invention of the modern light bulb and the common use of electricity.
2. The invention of the automobile and, later on, the modern Interstate highway system.
3. The invention of modern flight and the introduction of air travel.
4. Two World Wars
5. The Great Depression.
6. The invention of radio and television.
7. Baseball and its evolution, from stars like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth to Ted Williams and Willie Mays.
What an incredible life that man lived...
Im almost 65 yrs old. So when i was 6, I met an extremely old lady who lived at the end of our street in 1963. She was 102. She walked very slow with a cane and would watch us play. sometimes we watched her do laundry from a wringer washer! She made us stay away because it was dangerous for us to be around. It was a real interesting thing to watch! Anyway, one day she told me that her parents took her to see President Lincoln give his Emancipation Proclamation speech! I didnt fully understand but she told me how she was just a little girl and her Dad put her on his shoulders to watch him speak. She talked about how cold it was but everyone was excited to hear President Lincoln. President Lincoln spoke January 1, 1863!
A few mos later that lady passed away. I never forgot her. ❤️
What an amazing story you have to tell! She seems like she was a wonderful lady.
I wonder how much she remembered of it vs her parents recounting the day to her over the years. No doubt it’s possible she remembers (I and others I know have tiny faint memories of anything prior to 3 years old) but I’m inclined to think it was a story told time and time again, particularly after Lincoln’s death, so some of the “memory” was created rather than actually memorized. Either way, super cool that she was there for it!
That reminds me of a old man that lived in the city here, i wont mention his name because he was well known here but i'l tell what he told me.
It's a story he only told a few people because it's a theme people are desperatly try to forget/hide.
He was born in 1938 and was 7 years old in 1945 close to the end of the war.
The city remained for a miraculously relative untouched by allied bombing untill that faitfull night when American Bombers were coming.
He knew they were American because next to his house and exactly next to his room was a communicationsbuilding and if you were quiet and listened to the wall you could barely hear the radio operators.
Shortly after that the air raid sirens wend off and he fled with his sister to the shelter.
His mom was at the moment in the hospital for a operation. His dad was visiting there.
During the whole bombardment he kept waiting for those doors to open and his parents to come.
But they never did.
After the bombardment they'r house was gone and they had nowhere to go or to stay.
Dutch Nurses of the red cross took care of him and his sister.
But the situation was getting bad and the allies were closing in.
There was not a chanse to evacuate and they had to endure 1 day of close city fighting untill the civillians begged the Wehrmacht to surrender to prevent even more losses.
As the fighting stopped he and his sister crawled out of they'r hiding spot only to walk into a American soldier who pointed his M1 Garand right between his eyes.
This made such a deep inpact on him he told me exactly how the soldier looked like to what gear he was wearing.
Ever sinds that moment he had a deep grudge against U.S soldiers.
It might not be a story everyone is exited to hear, but if nobody shares it, it will be lost to time forever.
@kevin mcconnell dude no one is tearing it down. Like I said it’s very cool and exciting that she was there for it. Stop being a TH-cam troll
My mother's family lived on a farm in New England. The 'town' would send old folks to live on the farm and my grandparents would be their caretakers, like some kind of old folks home. They called the place the 'Town Farm". when my mother was a young girl, one of the elderly women that lived on the farm was the widow of a civil war veteran. It still amazes me that today, in 2021, I can hold the hand of someone who held the hand of a window of a civil war veteran.
To be fair, the lady must have been quite young and married off to a nearly elderly man... just so weird to think about.
"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.
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 !!
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.
When Seymour was born, Lemuel Cook, the last surviving official veteran of the Revolutionary War, was still alive. He died when Seymour was 6 years old.
That’s crazy
Mindblowing fact
Wow.
That’s crazy
It goes to show you how young America is in actuality
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!
I feel privileged to have heard this man’s voice and to have seen him. This is an experience that will be carried across the generations, and it’s incredible to have witnessed a recording of his recounting.
John Wilkes Booth was hired by JESUITS TO KILL LINCOLN. It started with Former Roman Catholic Priest Charles Chiniquy. The jesuits tried to get him hanged for exposing them in his book "50 years in the Church of Rome". The Jesuits conspired to bring a false accusation against him, but Abraham Lincoln defended Chiniquy as his lawyer. It was Abraham Lincoln's most high profile case. After a lady named Mrs. Philomene Moffat gave her oath of how she overheard the Jesuit telling his sister to accuse him of inappropriate behavior with her, telling her to do this and he will just forgive her of her sins, she went to the trial to give her testimony. That's what saved Charles Chiniquy.
When Lincoln became president he felt it was God's will to free the slaves. He was later murdered by Booth because of the jesuits. Booth said:
"I can never repent. God simply made me the instrument of his (Lincoln's) punishment...Booth pressing the medal of the virgin Mary to his breast, when falling mortally wounded "-Trial of Surratt, Volume 1, page 310
From Chiniquy's testimony:
"My dear President, I must repeat to you here what I said when at Urbana in 1856. My fear is that you will fall under the blows of a Jesuit assassin if you do not pay more attention than you have done, till now, to protect yourself. Remember that because Coligny was an heretic, as you are, he was brutally murdered in the St.
Bartholomew night; that Henry IV. was stabbed by the Jesuit assassin, Revaillac, the 14th of May, 1610, for having given liberty of conscience to his people; and that William the Taciturn was shot dead by another Jesuit murderer, called Girard, for having broken the yoke of the Pope. The Church of Rome is absolutely the same today as she was then; she does believe and teach today, as then, that she has the right and that it is her duty to punish by death any heretic who is in her way as an obstacle to her designs. The unanimity with which the Catholic hierarchy of the United States is on the side of the rebels is an incontrovertible evidence that Rome wants to destroy this republic, and as you are, by your personal virtues, your popularity, your love for liberty,
your position, the greatest obstacle to the diabolical schemes, their hatred is concentrated upon you; you are the daily object of their maledictions; it is at your breast they will direct their blows. My blood chills in my veins when I contemplate the day which may come, sooner or later, when Rome will add to all her other iniquities the murder of Abraham Lincoln."
When saying these things to the President, I was exceedingly moved, my voice was as choked, and I could hardly retain my tears. But the President was perfectly calm. When I had finished speaking, he took the volume of Busembaum from my hand, read the lines which I had marked with red ink, and I helped him to translate them into English. He then gave me back the book, and said:
"I will repeat to you what I said at Urbana, when for the first time you told me your fears lest I would be
assassinated by the Jesuits: 'Man must not care where and when he will die, provided he dies at the post of honour and duty.' But I may add, today, that I have a presentiment that God will call me to Him through the hand of an assassin. Let His will, and, not mine be done!"-"50 Years in the Church of Rome",1885, page 350
@@finalfantasy3808 no one cares bro + ratio
@@weirdchamp4601, I didn't ask for your opinion, but yes, ignorant fools such as yourself may not care. However, intelligent truth seeking individuals would care why Booth killed a great Christian U.S. President like Lincoln.
"A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion."-Proverbs 18:12
I feel privileged, too. This gentleman was amazing.
@@weirdchamp4601 L lil bro +counter +fatherless
why is this still better quality than most bank security cameras today?
This man deciding to go on this show with his "shiner" despite the wishes of the showrunners was the greatest decision he could have made. He knew this was going to last.
And that it would be his last chance. He passed away only two months later..
@@Janszler thats sad :(
HE PROBABLY WAS PAID $5
@@DailyDriverGarage that doesn't even make any sense, what point are you trying to make?
Props to him for being able to do so. That’s a tough old man.
I know it's not as impressive as this, but my grandmother just turned 100 last December, and when she was a little girl her next door neighbor was an old man who was a civil war veteran.
It's not a competition, that's actually real cool, I live in Mexico but my grandpa's brother in law was a World War 2 vet, I always regreted not meeting him because of the stories he probably could've told
@@joseantonioespinosagonzale1500 Thanks man! I always thought it was pretty crazy myself! Both of my Grandparents (they're deceased) were WW2 vets. My grandmother actually kept all the letters that my grandfather wrote to her while he was overseas.
@@Kment011 That's cool! Those letters must mean a lot to her.
Down here it's not really common to have vets for relatives so I always tought it was cool to have a political grand uncle who fought in Germany and Korea, specially cause he wasn't born in the states but a small town in southern Mexico, wish I'd met, probably had some stories to tell.
@@Kment011 That is really cool.
@@darkmemes953 thanks bro !
I looked him up. He died only a few months after this aired. It's like he knew his time was limited and was determined to appear on the show and tell his story.
Of course he knew his time was limited he was 96 years old.
@@jfandersson3223 Bruh show some respect jeez.
@@germanyball982 There is nothing disrespectful about commenting on someone’s age, especially when that person is decades over the median life span. We’ll all die at some point - some later than others. By accepting this fact, like the gentleman in the video surely had, you’ll be able to appreciate life to its fullest.
@@jfandersson3223 you are so frustrared man.
@@Mizuki47 okay man.
Thanks for including those excerpts as well as the link from his article. Super cool video
He died just 2 days before the 90th anniversary of Lincoln's shooting. He died 64 days after this interview. It interests me that there are many people that are interviewed short times before their deaths, even if they weren't very famous. The fact that he died so close to the anniversary of the event is even more shocking.
My birthday is on the same day as my birth. Coincidence? I think NOT!
When you've told your story and some of it will outlast you, it means you'll live forever.
It's 1956, so it was the 91st.
There's a 1 in 100 chance that he died within 4 days of it. Not too small.
it's because he hit his head that day before the show
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 really shows how young America actually is compared to other countries
It is only 300 or so years I believe so if lucky to live to be 90 to 100, 3 people could give so much information. This will have downsides since one person probably can't do everything such as live through wars or even live to be of this age. So take what i say with a grain of salt.
America is as old as any other country!. Fucking Europeans took the land and killed off the natives that was already here
@@malik5835 Very true
@@malik5835 You do realize a country is different from the land the country exists on right?
ColasTeam no shit, you know what I meant. The land they had probably was country you guys call “America “ to them. But we will never know because the Europeans were aliens to the natives and didn’t speak their language most were killed and forced to move else where.
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 absolutely love how the host is trying to involve Seymour and making sure hes getting a say its pretty touching to watch
That host was a class act
Great comment
This was from the Golden Age of television where the hosts were actual intelligent people. They sure knew how to treat their guests
Much more respect for the elderly back then
catherine ringwood Definitely. Respect for anyone. Being cordial to is the way it should be. Imagine him being a little 5 year old boy. Amazing!
"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
"was this person a president?"
Mr Seimour: "I think he was once, yes"
I'm a huge history nerd but the thing that I value most in my studies is that I discover that there always existed people who had a good sense of humour.
Me too, these videos are great to watch honestly, I *LOVE* history. It’s amazing to see some of these videos preserved in TH-cam!
@@basicallystupid7080 I am the type of person who would have given that same sarcastic response, even though the other people are asking because they don't know who it is
Sense of humor isnt anything new you A-hole people have had one since the beginning of humanity
Thats funny because Lincoln was elected illegally into office🤣
@@rockk9753 The hell? Why so hostile my guy?
Thanks for the article being included
This is absolutely incredible. Kids are so intuitive. He knew something was wrong, at 5 years old. It's awful to think how it haunted him, though.
It's unimagineable.
He lived through some tough times. Aside from the assasination which occurred around the civil war period, he had to live through WW1, Spanish flu, WWII.
Cant imagine the horrors he has witnessed.
He felt the evil foreboding feeling ever since he rode into Washington DC. Jesuit assassins were plotting Lincoln’s murder ever since he defended that priest Chas. Chiniquy. But they’ve basically rewritten that “history”. See book by Jack Chick for accurate history. Super good read 👍🏻
@@Pamela.B yeah i read chiniquy's book...lincoln was a piece of crap, and 600k whites died for absolutely nothing exc to give the new york/london bankers control of the southern trade/ports
@@Pamela.B lol Jack Chick is bigoted anti Catholic fiction.
Imagine from the civil war to television in a lifetime and Im cringing watching the host smoke
I literally just had that conversation with my wife. Mind blowing
Really puts into perspective how young the nation really is
Progress is shocking, the world changes, just ask some old people
This was a fact of life for so many. Time muddles things so much that a commonplace notion of the past blows our minds today.
Muskets to machine guns. Balloons to jet aircraft. Coal to atomic energy. Had he lived another year, he'd have witnessed Sputnik.
This is mind blowing. A video posted in TH-cam in 2016 of an interview from 1956 where the host speaks to a man who saw the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The man was born in 1860. His life overlapped with the lives of revolutionary war veterans. There is so much history here.
Mind blowing definitely isn’t the term you should use to describe it
@@hmbackup6577 lmfao
It will be the year 2053 when a 95 years old dude born in 1958 will be the last witness to the 1963 Kennedy assassination, which he saw at age 5.
@@alainportant6412
Was born in 55. If I were a bible believing kind of guy, I'd tell ya there would be a better chance of me talking to JFK , then talking about him to a great great grandkid
@@alainportant6412 I think that'll have more living witnesses since people live longer and a lot of people saw it also unlike Lincoln's assassination we can JFK assassination on youtube
kudos to the production staff of these old game shows for finding such compelling topics / people . They really did a job.
It's really too bad this was a game show rather than a proper interview. I'd love to hear or read more about this man and what he remembers. This country is still in its infancy, and this video is a testament to that.
Well, what we have of an interview is in that article. You can almost hear his words in your head.
@SkyCop Wife Do you have a link or title?
@@elijahmassey2355 Here it is: th-cam.com/video/Q6IFEE_CM-I/w-d-xo.html
245 yrs old isn't really infancy.
@SkyCop Wife Thanks
Think about it, though: not only did this guy witness the assassination of one of our most beloved presidents Abraham Lincoln, he also lived through the Civil War and two World Wars. He must've been INCREDIBLE to have a conversation with.
Not only that, but he witnessed the rise and fall of what we now call the Old West, the Spanish-American war, the invention of the automobile, the airplane, and other significant historical events.
Well, he was only 5 when he saw Lincoln assassinated and that was pretty much after the Civil War was over. But hell yeah, this guy lived through so much. If people today want to speak to someone significant they only need to find a holocaust Survivor or a survivor of Hiroshima.
M Adams I think the war was only over by a couple of months when he was shot. I didn’t Google or Wikipedia this so I could be wrong.
I can’t even imagine what he saw in his life! My own late grandmother always talked about how she went from horse and buggy to man on the moon - all in her own lifetime.
I’m sure we could have learned way much more from him than any of our school teachers. 🤷🏿♂️ experience is much much more precious knowledge to be gained.
“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
I’m impressed with the fact that at his age of 96 that he could still recall that frightful night as if it happened yesterday.
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. 😔
"Was this man president of the United States?"
"I think he was, once"
For an old guy with a head injury and hearing issues, he still had quite the sense of humor! :D
Being old doesn’t mean you can’t be funny anymore lmao
@@L30GH05TDUD3 No, but having a nasty head injury and being unable to hear people can dull your wit. Not that guy's though, clearly!
@@swishfish8858 what does hearing have to do with it If u funny u just funny 🤣🤣🤣
@@jamal.hood.shakers.gadgets924 ...you need to be able to hear what someone said in order to say something funny back to it, my dude.
Plot twist: he wasn't kidding
Insane... This guy is like 160 years old now & here we are watching him on a TV show.
He is dead though
Hahaha. Many thanks to all the wonderful people that gave us the great television shows. They preserved our history for our posterity and by watching it, we feel connected knowing it wasn't as long ago as we feel that it was. My grandmother talked about being 5 yrs old and riding the buck board from Maine to Florida. One of her cousins was the first in her county to die due to an auto accident. Something having to do with riding on the side of vehicle, hitting a cow at 25mph and being thrown head first into a tree. My grand daughter asked me about a payphone she saw in an "old" music video (70's-80's).
@@petersonj76 no shit sherlock
Why didn't they ask him more questions?!?!
160 years old? Exaggerating much?
And he died just 2 months after this show. While I realize that 95 is elderly, I hope that fall he took didn't hasten his passing. RIP Mr Seymour.
"Was this man ever president?"
"Well, I think he was once."
Love this guy
ok/
Understatement of the year!!!!!!!!
Hey, the man was 96 ok.
He was being sarcastic. It was a sweet joke.
@@Bobbydawriter yes of course 😊
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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This video shows that a century really isn't as long as we think sometimes.
Our life times are a grain of sand compared o the beings living in eternal life in Heaven and beyond.
Our lives are nothing when compared to geological time on of this planet.
And "Deep Time" the billions and billion of years in the universe, makes our lives seem insignificant.
Don Beverage well that is your belief. even if you don’t believe it, you shouldn’t be rude about it. You will never grow if you have confirmation bias
You only need to reach the age of 60 to realize that!!!
CooCooWizard no bro you got the whole reason of religion wrong, take a psych class, religion is not meant for you to believe in something strictly, it’s for you to reason it on how you want to be, it’s the same thing for atheist, just because you don’t believe in god, doesn’t mean you don’t believe there is something else. You are arguing with the basis of humanity. Religion isn’t meant to brain wash you. If you think you are smarter for not believing in god. Than it comes to show that you aren’t able to understand The complex aspects of life.
He was born in 1860, witnessed Lincoln’s assassination when he was five years old…told the world about it in 1956, 91 years later, and we’re watching him tell us in 2024, 68 years later…that’s crazy.
it’s been almost 200 years wtf
Two months after this appearance, Samuel Seymour died at the age of 96. He died April 12, 1956 at the home of his daughter, and was survived by five children, thirteen grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren.
yes . he tell his historic secret before he dies. and one more thing . is rare to survive 96 years old today , but in 1956 was like one of the most long living people alive
A few days before another anniversary
@@xx-mreba-xx4051 Lincoln's 91st post-mortem. I'm sure that was in Seymour's mind as well.
Jesus they need to slow it down
Great story.
Apparently he died about 2 months after this was made... I guess he had to get this out before he left Earth.
Rest in peace, Mr Seymour
R.I.P
HIS NAME IS SAMUEL JC MOORE, NOT MR. SEYMOUR LIKE DA DICKHEAD HOST KEPT SAYIN💀💀💀
@@yungmuthafuckinsimba526 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Seymour
@@yungmuthafuckinsimba526 nobody cares
@@captainfangle2245 Why are we all on this video, just to suffer?
He is old enough to where his grandfathers could have fought alongside Washington
Nice Sasuke pfp
I bet they helped Washington take control of the airports.
Not only that, but is old enough so that his father could have actually fought in a part of the Civil War itself.
@@idurisu930 Sweetie, reading comprehension. Learn it. Live it.
@@lightningmacqueen4097 bruh
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?