PinkoCommie
08-05-2011, 06:21 PM
It just hasn't been all that long. And as anaxarchos has pointed out, the rate of speed of change is ever increasing.
Time is shorter than we may reflexively imagine.
Via HuffPo:
In February 1956, two months before his death, 96-year-old Samuel J. Seymour appeared on the CBS television show "I've Got A Secret." His secret: he witnessed Abraham Lincoln's assassination when he was five years old.
Sure enough, Seymour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Seymour) has been widely recognized (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/13/last-witness-to-assassination/) as the last surviving person in America who had been present at Ford's Theatre the night of Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865.
According to the Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/13/last-witness-to-assassination/), Seymour attended the Ford's Theatre performance as a young boy with family friends. He was told upon arriving in Washington, “Sammy, you and I and Sarah are going to a play - a real play. And President Abraham Lincoln will be there."
Seymour's recollection of the event (http://thekentuckycivilwarbugle.com/2011-2Qpages/seymour.html) includes a shot ringing out, someone in the President's box screaming and Lincoln slumping forward in his seat. He also caught a glimpse of John Wilkes Booth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth) jumping from the box to the stage.
A Maryland native who later lived in Arlington, Seymour died on April 12, 1956, two days before the anniversary of Lincoln's death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iq5yzJ-Dk
Time is shorter than we may reflexively imagine.
Via HuffPo:
In February 1956, two months before his death, 96-year-old Samuel J. Seymour appeared on the CBS television show "I've Got A Secret." His secret: he witnessed Abraham Lincoln's assassination when he was five years old.
Sure enough, Seymour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Seymour) has been widely recognized (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/13/last-witness-to-assassination/) as the last surviving person in America who had been present at Ford's Theatre the night of Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865.
According to the Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/13/last-witness-to-assassination/), Seymour attended the Ford's Theatre performance as a young boy with family friends. He was told upon arriving in Washington, “Sammy, you and I and Sarah are going to a play - a real play. And President Abraham Lincoln will be there."
Seymour's recollection of the event (http://thekentuckycivilwarbugle.com/2011-2Qpages/seymour.html) includes a shot ringing out, someone in the President's box screaming and Lincoln slumping forward in his seat. He also caught a glimpse of John Wilkes Booth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth) jumping from the box to the stage.
A Maryland native who later lived in Arlington, Seymour died on April 12, 1956, two days before the anniversary of Lincoln's death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iq5yzJ-Dk