Lincoln Assasination Witness

[Ken]

I haven't done a search to see if this has ever been posted, however I have a feeling it probably hasn't been. I was browsing you tube and found an absolutely unreal video. This is a segment of the old TV show "To Tell The Truth" with host Gary Moore. This show was probably from the 1950's and Featured in this segment is a 97 year old man who's secret, which the pannel has to guess, is he was present at Fords theater and witnessed the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. If you haven't seen this check it out, it is very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3G3C4CCrHc

[Guy Gane III]

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Funny thing Ken... I haven't been on the AC in a few days... I come across this and it's really helpful to have seen this!

Monday of next week I am going to play John Wilkes Booth in a special for PBS, coming soon. :wink_smil

Totally blown away that this guy takes a spill and comes to the show with a shiner! haha What a trooper! :D

Thanks!

[nrandolph]

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That was fantastic! I'm a teacher, and I'm always trying to emphasize that one hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago really isn't that long...especially if they get back into their family histories. That little clip brought that whole concept thundering home and was a pleasure to watch. BTW, I really liked when they showed what the secret was, and the audience gasped out loud! As for more historical interest, how'd you all like the prize the man got at the end...sure wouldn't see that anymore.

Neil Randolph
1st WV

[Abrams]

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That was a very cool video, thanks for sharing it. :)

As for more historical interest, how'd you all like the prize the man got at the end...sure wouldn't see that anymore.

Neil Randolph
1st WV

That prize was surprising. It was also unusual to see the host smoking during the program, heh.

[flattop32355]

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That prize was surprising. It was also unusual to see the host smoking during the program, heh.

Keep in mind that a cigarette company was the show's sponsor.

[Ken]

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In the early days of Television tobacco companies did a lot of TV sponsoring. You can still watch Andy Griffith light up an occasional cigarette as he sits on his front porch with Barney, Opie and aunt Bee.

[markj]

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In the early days of Television tobacco companies did a lot of TV sponsoring. You can still watch Andy Griffith light up an occasional cigarette as he sits on his front porch with Barney, Opie and aunt Bee.

You bet. In addition to the folks in "Mayberry," you won't believe who else was pushing coffin nails to the public:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ogu3773PFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtEciS9CZ2E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQL007cV5qk (this is just one of several they made!)

Yours, &c.,

Mark Jaeger

[PVT.THIB]

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Thank God for YouTube!!!!

[Private Longshanks]

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By the way, Andy smoked "Lucky Strike", no filter.

[csabugler]

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Hey mark, thanks for the links. very entertaining. And further proof not to believe everything you see on T.V.

[yeoman]

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Sir, I was born in 1951 and may well have seen this to begin with and no reason to believe its untrue. What gets me is the rememberance of the funeral of my oldest relative who passed at 98 in the late 50s is the touch I had to her was the same she had to those before her. Not to be out there but its a pretty transcendent feeling, another link in the chain. Sure took me back, thanks for the ride.

[Darrell Cochran]

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You bet. In addition to the folks in "Mayberry," you won't believe who else was pushing coffin nails to the public.

Yours, &c.,

Mark Jaeger

Even the government. Back in the early 1980s when I was in Army recruiting (not a recruiter but on the support side producing posters, etc) we had many historical posters around the office, one of which was a Lucky Strike magazine ad from around 1910 titled "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" in which a general testified that he always recommended his men light up a smoke rather than eating a piece of candy. And of course Army rations through the Vietnam era included little packs of cigarettes ... But given that they were usually something really awful like unfiltered Chesterfields or Camels (my dad's smoke of choice for years thanks to getting them free in World War II) it may have been reverse psychology. Nothing like getting sick off a smoke to help turn you away from the demon weed. :D

[cwbauer]

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That was really neat, I especially like his consolation prize of a either a carton of Winstons or the can of pipe tobacco...can you imagine now a days giving away smokes on tv?

[theknapsack]

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That was awesome. Thanks for posting that link.