Witness to President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Speaks: Enhanced Video & Audio [60 fps] 

It costs nothing to keep the channel going . So quit e begging.

Thanks for taking the time to upload all this footage to youtube. It's very fascinating stuff :p

@@acidangel111He just wants to keep his channel going mate, he isn’t begging

@WhyTheHeckNot I know many Creators that do it for fun and have NEVER begged. Fun fact.

Yes its funny how all these people happen to remember they saw it 40 years after it happened!

We are getting closer to time travel, but in the mean time, I agree with you completely.

I absolutely agree. It's amazing. Breathtaking. A personal account of a historical event, 156 years ago. I never thought I would ever be able to witness this.

@@Ellexis time travel won't happen, because we would have met time travelers

I'm glad he was filmed. I didn't know that there were eyewitnesses living in the age of "talkies".

@@Berengier817 time travel to the future is possible... in a manner of speaking.

As I’ve studied history it’s amazing how facts can be totally distorted, and some totally missing. The number one ingredient is exaggeration, some people have a tendency to exaggerate, even good people.

I think he's full of shit. John Wilks Boothe never said "death to tyrants." In fact he never said anything.

@@ronniebishop2496 agreed

Here’s another eye witness. This gentleman was a kid when he was at Ford’s Theatre. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1RPoymt3Jx4.html

@@ronniebishop2496 Even our family history that is passed down to us can be exaggerated. Where I was born and raised everyone and his brother claimed to be related to Jesse James. :)

It’s really interesting that in 80 years somebody will have the same experience as you. Talking to somebody who takes to a veteran in 2020-30. Except this time, that veteran will be of the assassination of JFK

Not quite as far back, but I met George Takei (Star Trek) in person once. He was arrested and sent to the Japanese-american internment camps when he was 5 years old in the early 40's

My father who served in World War Two, and would be 101. if alive, told me that there were many Civil War vets around when he was a kid.

@@garymorris1856 how cool is that!

I get perturbed when our young beautiful America country has historical landmarks destroyed or taken down by people who dont care about our rich history. What about us whom DO CARE about American history? Just saying.

I thought the same when I saw his painfull face.

Who is he

@@kileylarios5844 A good question. Aside from being a witness to the Lincoln assassination, I don't know. The video doesn't provide his name and I'm not sure it was ever given (I presume it was but who knows if we still have that info).

Is he alive or dead

@@kileylarios5844 Unknown, but we can presume one or the other.

Probably dead

Is this man dead?

@@kileylarios5844 Not yet. He’s employed by IBM as an IT Technician.

So he fake?

@@kileylarios5844 he is dead, or he would be more than 156 years old

Who was he

Back when most Americans were actually educated and had a measure of class.

He said "whence". From whence is unnecessary repetition.

Yes! And to listen to a straight, accurate chronological narrative that isn't peppered with "he was like sitting in like the first row and like there was this like bang... it was crazy..." seems unreal. Every word this man spoke conveyed information -- virtually no filler.

@@BlueEyes-gp8lg I've read that American literacy rates were actually higher before compulsory education was enacted through the efforts of people like Horace Mann. Somehow people were motivated to learn to read because it made sense for them to do that, not because they were coerced into it.

@@BlueEyes-gp8lg 'Educated.' The gun that killed Lincoln WAS NOT a revolver.

What the hell does this even mean?

@@landonschertz2325 probably just some hogwash about the human spirit.

$1 in 1865 is equivalent to $17.17 in 2020. So no, we didn’t forget. The value of a dollar has changed.

Not necessarily, that's 15$ in today's money. We just pay stupid amounts of money for stupid things nowadays. Consumerism.

That was about 17 dollars in today’s money. The median wealth back then was $3000, or about 52,000 in today’s money. Less than half if the median wealth today. The only reason they could go was because it was good Friday & the end of the war.

That would have been awesome to hear from someone who actually lived it.

My wife's great uncle, William J. Ferguson, was the call boy on stage that night. He stood next to Laura Keene as Booth leaped to the stage. He later authored a book about his experiences before we during and shortly after Lincoln's assassination. He became a stage and silent film actor in the subsequent 50 years hence. My wife grew up in his house in Pikesville, Md.

That is an incredible family story. I am glad you had the opportunity to know your father's Great-Uncle and hear his stories.

@@jefferyepstein9210 I worked pretty close to a fellow in a factory who was in The Battle of the Bulge. I did not know this till I read it in his obituary. sure wish I knew it back when I was worked next to him then I would of bugged him to no end if he would of related some stories to me.

​@@howardquinn5911 Fascinating. Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (named for Francis Scott Keyes, an earlier ancestor perhaps collateral, who wrote The Star Spangled Banner) was a great nephew or so of the only woman hanged, on same day and scaffold as a few men (there are photographs on RU-vid), as an accomplice after the fact, evidently having in the near aftermath helped Booth escape fleeing authorities.

Absolutely~!~ It was the best ~President Of The United States~ President Abraham Lincoln~!~ The only man who truly wanted to Free The Slaves,, and takes a bullet to the back of the head for doing so ................... ~!~

What is this guy talking is he alive or dead and what is his name

I still feel JFK's assassination. Anyone alive then probably remembers the darkness and grief felt throughout the country.

@@kileylarios5844 Well, in 1930 he was about 70 years old or older, so...

​@@MikeSmith-fs9wh If in 1865 he was in his late teens or early 20s (adult independent enough to buy a highest~price seat in the orchestra, then after the shooting go alone to the porch next door to observe after events, then in 1930 he would be at least in his early 80s. There is a separate RU-vid video of an old man guest on a late 1950s or early 1960s episode of the tv game show I've Got a Secret, whose secret was that he was at age 5 in the audience of Ford's Theatre the evening Lincoln was shot.

you did not experience anarchy in the streets. your timeframe experienced the opposite of Law and Order, which is Chaos and DisOrder.. law n order bedfellows. Anarchy means FREEDOM for the individual...a decentralization of power.. to be given back to the individual and to be free, one must take responsibility. Allowing a representative to speak for you on a political platform isn't taking responsibility for yourself; it's an adherence and submission to cult policies and procedures.

@@keetahbrough Try living in Syria or Afghanistan if you think anarchy is a utopia.

@@keetahbrough and?

@@keetahbroughPractically no society in the history of man or other apes (except perhaps orangutans) functioned without leaders. Pure anarchy is not natural to humans. It's a social construct that ignores anthropology.

I hope it doesn’t but if something like that happened to President Biden it wouldn’t get the same reaction I’ll bet.

I just passed by it on my bike ride home! :) It's about the only thing left from that time in that area

@SkyCop Wife What was the name of the Theater? I did a little research and found one named Temple Theater, but I don't think that's the one.

I agree it is something i will never forget

I went there on a class trip a few years back and it really does feel surreal

Been there. Exactly as you say.

They should put it in the walls.

@@TheUltimateGC That'd be pretty spooky. Good idea!

Yes very good idea

I agree.

We don't know if it's even legit.

Does that mean your grandmother's grandfather was one of Sherman's men? Or was he under someone else?

My grandma was the same age but lived until 2000. They lived through the Depression with little children, very tough life.

Rest in peace, Mrs. Nadine!!

@Jeff Curtis write her stories down for your descendants!!!

Yep and Woodrow Wilson died 6 years before this interview was taken.

@@jamesa2482 Woodrow Wilson was the worst president and in general one of the worst people to ever live. He was unanimously voted by political experts on both sides to be the lowest of the low.

@@JesusChrist2000BC and? Did I give my opinion of him? No… I just said he died 6 years before this video was made.

@@JesusChrist2000BC I already know all of that so I don’t know why you’re giving me a history lesson.

@@jamesa2482 Jesus always thinks he knows everything, such a daddy's boy, thinks he can walk on water. 😉😆

And there will be many people in the year 2100 who will have seen you ;)

The last man to have seen the face of Lincoln died in 1963 at age 75. He was a boy of 13 when he saw the dead face of Lincoln in his tomb, after it had been opened the last time, in Sept. 1901, before they then covered him and his coffin in ten feet of concrete.

Not all of them. And certainly not everything they say.

Better yet, interview them about their key experiences and witness to historically significant events and life changes.

People are people young or old. There’s some terrible old people trust me

@@generalyellor8188 exactly. His account conflicts with the history books. He said very little was said just before the shooting, but all other accounts say the assassination occurred in the middle of a long dialogue between the 2 main characters.

@@jackpow2004 Wrong. An Act had just ended, when the shooting occurred. There are historical eyewitness statements to back that up. Try again.

I SAW IT. ITS ON RU-vid SOMEWHERE. HE WAS BORN IN 1860 .HE WAS 5 WHEN HE WENT TO FORDS. IN 1955 AT 95 HE WENT ON TV AFTER APPEARING IN A MAGAZINE. IT WAS A GLORIOUS MOMENT FOR HIM..BUT HE DIED A FEW WEEKS LATER.

Interesting background here…..en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln

@@robertchesnosky3508 loop

Yeah, at first I thought this guy was him.

Yes, I did see that one Ron

My grandfather vividly remembered hearing about Pearl Harbor, living through the the Cuban Missile crisis, Kennedy/MLK assasinations/etc. Even towards the end when he didn't remember his children being born or their names(dementia). I'm sure I'll always remember 9/11 and several other events. Memory is a weird thing.

People used to have a much better capacity for memory. They were more observant. Our attention span has suffered greatly because of technology (specifically our phones)

@@BM-fz9yc I also believe it has a lot to do with why there are so many Attention Deficit diagnoses these days. The technology all going so fast and not allowing all the senses to take in a scene before moving to the next. People interrupt each other and miss the important parts of conversations and act on half information. It is frustrating when they don’t slow down, and think things through, plan what you need, plan for mistakes, and have daily goals. I think this all began with the remote control. (I want it now thinking). I agree technology is changing our daily human thought process. I suppose technology is now giving us the imaginary worlds we used to think up on our own. Probably not healthy either. If you ever get a chance, read the letters of William Cody. (Buffalo Bill) to his wife. They are on display in a fabulous 4 story museum complete with theater in Cody, Wyoming. You will be amazed at how the English language was written. So eloquently and with description leaving a sensation of having actually tasted a meal simply just written down. The museum is modern and has a theater. Off subject but yes the people’s brains are being reprogrammed for sure. It is difficult to even communicate with younger people anymore as they have different definitions for the words I use and sometimes mis understand what I am saying only because they changed the meaning of a word or how much emphasis the word means. Holding a camera 20’ away from someone is now considered “shoving a camera in their face.” By some. It is a confusing world with all the exaggerated and animosity people have for one another now. Before people were kinder and not so “me” oriented. What happens in the future is going to be more than I can handle. I am already lost in translation with how they changed the world. Maybe one day these young people will understand what we have been trying to tell them. That the world changes….it’s not that we got old and stupid. So many young people cannot improvise and find a way to make it work with what’s available. These are very important skills and the way this world is going, Old people may be the only ones who remember how to do things before technology.

He was wrong about the gun, though.

I'm 71 and I've lived thru a lot of historical events !

Later that year or so, American poet Walt Whitman wrote "Lilacs That Once in the Dooryard Bloomed," a meditation on the long, long train funeral cortege carrying Lincoln's body from Washington D.C. back for burial in his home state of Illinois.

One of the *saddest*.

Imagine that indeed 😳

He probably didn't think much of it.

@@shibenikvaysyor8309 By biggest he meant saddest.

I show it in my classroom to my students each year.

how much reddit karma do you have to have to catch 2nd hand PTSD from a man who witnessed lincoln's assassination.?

@OpusDeFocus,Amen.🪦.

It’ll be the same for the 22nd century, people in the future will be fascinated by the stories of today, we still have living witnesses of jfk’s Assassination and Queen Elizabeth is still reigning, so it’ll be a lot of stories to tell later if you’re still alive in the later future

@@iamamousee1182 The 22nd century kids will be like "what was TikTok?" "What is COVID?".

@@2Addictive And, someone will reply, "Viruses."

@@iamamousee1182 JESUS will be reigning on the earth at that time and not too far away from now 2021. The world will be a different place then, holy, righteous, and peaceful.

@@slaveofYAH Hope so, but I don't think anyone that has died will be reincarnated. It is OUR jobs to make it happen, not to let some imaginary deity do it for us, like some miracle

When RU-vid was launched I said it was the dumbest idea "who wants to watch other peoples hone videos?" I have never been more wrong about anything in my life.

@@piccalillipit9211 Indeed I said the same thing. I also said "Who the hell would want to watch a video on their phone?"

@@double_initial I know - its amazing how wrong you can be. But I got Facebook right - I said it would be a cyber pox on humanity and it is... You win some you lose some LOL

@@piccalillipit9211 Facebook? Never heard of it. Oh, you mean Myspace! Ooooh!

@@piccalillipit9211 Agree 100%. If you have the time you can blow a whole day on youtube lol. Like anything else though, just takes a little time to wade through the crap. I have a FB page but can't remember the last time I even logged in.

I remember in the 70s thinking how the 50s were twenty years earlier which was the same time span as the 1920s were in the 1940s when I was born. The same 20 years that the 1940s were when I was a teenager on college student. It feels different when you are talking about two time periods that you lived through compared to a time period you're in to a time period from before your birth and memory.

Me too. Former husband’s grandmother, there would have been stories. Her father was born ten years after That Night, but there would have been family stories. But take a cue. Try one of the Ancestry free trials. One thing leads to another, it’s a wondrous addiction. In April, the 1950 Census will be released.

So true. One of my great regrets.

@Bill B Don't be saddened, be delighted. You know more about him and his story than you give yourself credit for. Start. It's easy to organize using Ancestry. Three or more times I've uncovered military service never known to the family. No one....seemingly...to benefit from it. But that's short- sited, generations from now, someone will find of interest. It's our duty to get it down. War heroes and those who waited for them to get home. We have these divine tools to use to release them in memory for all they've done. Brother in law I never met, killed in Vietnam....no one knew what had happened. Not an inkling. Found information readily, where, when, how. I felt his wink when I got it done. You're welcome, I said, and winked back.

Man is that the truth. My dad died two years ago at the age of 94. I had questions for him almost on a daily basis. Mostly about his service in ww2 in Europe and the Pacfic but as got older my questions changed. He was the source of everything I know about his side of our family history, and most interestingly what it was like growing up and living through almost a century of history and change. I still have many questions but sadly no answers will be forthcoming. Everyone stay safe.

@@janetowens7288 Don’t give up….get to work. It’s so amazing and such a good feeling to get it started. I’ve found stuff….the list is long as your arm. Service records are amazing. In the case of Marines, there’d be an enlistment photograph. Spotty with other services, photos didn’t make it back to get filed. Get Dad on the Registry at the World War II Memorial in Washington. Can post a picture for a small fee, but at least his name. Link here is for service records. They’re phenomenal and timely. Records are slow at Archives, they charge too. The nominal fee by Golden,is way worth it because it’s sure to be complete. If it’s there, you'll get everything. In my dads file….he had had malaria for months before he went to the doctor. File showed all the battles the Marines fought. When I got it, my dad was 96, but he remembered as I was pointing out the details. He didn’t know his mother spoke German. She had answered he Census before he was born, answered to German fluency. I so loved Ken Burns The War, but didn’t want to play it for him. Too ….well, you know….. Ancestry has a short time freebie, credit card needed, but you can quit. It’s the complexity of learning a board game, up and running in no time flat. www.goldenarrowresearch.com We need to get this down for their descendants, we owe them.

Cheers to you from Austin, Tx, USA. I hope you are doing well in Spain.

What's (not) funny is, there are Americans who probably couldn't understand his English w/o the subtitles...

@@pgronemeier thats sad, for me its more difficult cuz the english we learn at school is british english, so the american accent makes it more difficult

It was rough. It was the 8th deadliest war of that century and the deadliest for America, roughly around 620,000-1,000,000 died and a assassination of a president. Must of been a crazy time.

@@TugIronChief amen. The man was a tyrant. His double dealings with banksters caught up to him.

@@TugIronChief common sense. People today believe the white soldiers of norther aggressors were putting their lives on the line to free blacks. Folks just don't think things through.

@@TugIronChief if he only succeeded at one thing at least it was in beating the South. If you believe the Morrill Tariff started the war you might want to go back & read Alexander Stephens Cornerstone speech. Documented proof from the CSA Vice President that will always fly in the face of Lost Cause idiots who insist secession was about tariffs.

His job was done, there's no need to stick around on this planet afterwards - dude is busy. Same exact thing happened to Patton after winning the war - a freak accident. Or JFK after the bay of pigs - their jobs were done. They're better off reincarnating. All 3 the same dude btw. They've got bigger fish to fry nowadays. Chamberlain was the most important key figure in the Civil War and he lived afterwards because he still had to be a teacher. " Chamberlain gained the name "Bloody Chamberlain" at Quaker Road. Chamberlain kept a Bible and framed picture of his wife in his left front "chest" pocket. A Confederate shot at Chamberlain. The bullet went through his horse's neck, hit the picture frame, entered under Chamberlain's skin in the front of his chest, traveled around his body under the skin along the rib, and exited his back. To all observers Union and Confederate, it appeared that he was shot through his chest. He continued to encourage his men to attack". Even death afraid of this man - bullets will move if you've still got shit to do. "In all, Chamberlain served in 20 battles and numerous skirmishes, was cited for bravery four times, had six horses shot from under him, and was wounded six times.[16][17]" Divine intervention only happens if it's necessary.

Kind of dark when you think about it. The eyewitness got such a close up view, but for the same kind of reason, so did Boothe. If there's an innocent weakness, evil will exploit it to take life and peace.

Sitting in an orchestra seat nearly directly under Lincoln's upper "box seat," he too was a close ear witness, able to verify for history the quiet onstage before Booth entered Lincoln's box seat balcony, and then from behind the president the sound as Booth shot him. Too he verified what history books have said, that Booth (an actor who likely had done Roman tragedies, perhaps Shakespeare's Julius Caesar) yelled out the Latin "sic semper tyrannis," in English "such always is tyranny."

The point is that it's not ancient at all. 1865, I mean. It wasn't even that long ago. It was SO recent that we have video like this of people who were there recounting the event. Imagine seeing a video of, say, someone who actually witnessed the killing of Julius Caesar - now THAT would be insane because that was thousands of years before cameras existed. Or video of someone who was there during the Norman invasions. Of course we'll NEVER see any videos like that because it was far too long ago - but for the late 1800s? That's recent. To put it into perspective...I am talking to you here, in 2023. I was born in the 1980s, about 120 years after Lincoln died - BUT my Great Grandfather, who I ACTUALLY MET and who was around until I was a teenager - was born in 1903 - and HIS father was born in 1862, when Lincoln was still alive (albeit in another country). My Great, Great Grandfather was spoken about to us directly by our great grandfather, which means we received first-hand accounts of a man born during the time of Lincoln. My Great, great grandparents lived into the 1960s, and my mother was alive by then - so my mother can tell me RIGHT NOW about her memories of them, even though they were born 160 years ago. But for some, the connection is even MORE recent: there are people alive right now whose PARENTS were alive at that time, when Lincoln was shot, in 1865. How? Well, men can father children at any age - and sometimes have much younger wives. So imagine a man at 85 years old had a son- the man was born, let's say, in 1850 and was 15 when Lincoln was shot. 85 years later, he gets a much younger woman pregnant - someone who is, say, 40. 85 years after 1850 is 1935. Now, that man conceived in 1935 was born 9 months later, in 1936. Meaning he is now 87. If his father lived to, say, 100, then he has DIRECT memories of living with his father until he was a young teenager. During that time, his father could have told him MANY direct accounts of those events - including the assassination of Lincoln. Meaning, in other words, there's only ONE generation between this 87 year old man telling you what his father told him of seeing Lincoln shot when he was 15 years old and you HEARING THE STORY FROM HIS SON! Food for thought. Not so ancient, after all, when you think of it that way. Even for me, I have photos of myself with my great grandparents who were born around 1903 and who told us DIRECTLY about their childhood during 1918, when the old RUssian empire fell and their country gained independence again. I got to grow up with someone in my own family who remembered something that happened more than a CENTURY ago.

Some people are just d***heads. That's why it got thumbs down. Actually Boothe used a single shot Derringer. But the narrator is in his 80's, it happened long ago, nobody there in the audience probably knew what it was until later. Details tend to fade a bit over 3/4 of a century plus.

You don't

I read a biography if Lincoln, and apparently Booth broke his leg when he landed, hence the stumble. He still managed to get a horse and get away.

Maybe this same guy?

@@Mr5thWave yes

His name was Samuel J Seymour

@@xavierbrown8053 He was on I'VE GOT A SECRET dated Feb. 8, 1956. He was 5 years old at the time of the assassination and was the last survivor of those in the theater that night. He died just a couple months later.

@@jehobden Right you are! And it's now on RU-vid.

My grandmother was born in 1918 and passed away in 1997. I'll never forget our conversation way back in the late 70s. She had worked for decades for a regional Gas company in central California and was the bookkeeper in charge of accounts receivables and payables. The owner sold the business to a large company ( Pargas ) and moved the office to Visalia. That was only 10 minutes away from my grandmother's home so the distance was not the problem. The problem, she explained to me, was this new accounting and record-keeping system that used this insanely complicated and useless new machine called a " computer" . She literally retired early because she could not stand this "useless contraption". It was too stressful to operate. How times have changed I miss her every day....

@@thomasmalatesta7331 I worked as a data entry associate at an insurance company when everything started to become computerized in the late 70s and your grandmother was right. At the time, it seemed like computers were causing more problems than they solved. "We can't help you because the computer is down" began to be a common joke. No matter who you called with a problem, the phone company, electric company, government agencies, banks etc. It was a universal excuse.

pssst, Dec 17, 1903

@@googoo-gjoob lol

Yeah, if your grandmother was born in 1911, she was born 8 years after the first powered flight

Try visiting the Native American sites, where complete tribes where wiped off this earth. There are so many places. It will make you break down and cry for people whose names were never known. The horror these people went through. Evil is the worst kind of ember. It must be confined and not be allowed a toe hold.

If Lincoln had lived out his second term there would probably not been the bitter Reconstruction period and we wouldn't still be dealing with the racism that still plagues the U.S.

@@mikefannon6994 People always try to bring race into history. News flash, racism has always been alive everywhere. We shouldn’t let it cloud history of nations. For example if I went to some parts of Africa my head would be on a stick. Racism is a minuscule part of history.

One could argue Lincoln was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people as this war was started on the premise of secession which was entirely permissible within the constitution.

Mike Fannon Lincoln wanted to send them back. That’s why there is Liberia. I’m sure you already know this

@@mikefannon6994 seeing how you brought it up proves there would still be it. Racism is an issue on any side. I have seen it in any color of Americans, black, white, red, Asian, etc. Why I knew a couple of black teens when I was a teenager that would hurl racist remarks at each other for their different skin tones in dead earnest. It isn't a one way road for sure. But it isn't really that big of an issue. Just some people have revived the movment and feeling to get what they want. Look at me, white with black great grandparents. And black some number of grandparents on the other side. We know 100% that my Dad's side were escaped slaved.

so true. and most of us never truly realize that fact.

You must be young. My grandparents were alive when Lincoln was assasinated.

@@annfrost3323 damn you aren’t that old

My dad was a year old and mom wouldn't be born for another 6 years when this was filmed. My grandparents at the time were 41 and 37.

@@reubster529 I'm not even 20 and I can truthfully say the same as you, my grandparents - all but 1 of them, 3/4 - were alive when this was filmed, they were the WW2 generation.

@@SStupendous Im around that age too. Large generation gap

You can’t put any stock into that. When that happens someone’s opinion literally means nothing. It’s coming from an individual with no concept or rational understanding therefore, the opinion is meaningless. 😁

Agreed. “Hang ‘em, Lynch ‘em”

​@@rumpelstiltskin5649You talk like the liberals who shot Lincoln. There could be any number of reasons to thumb it down.

100% anyone who doesnt agree with your opinion on the value of something is obviously a bigot.

Who was *allegedly there.

It's not silly, really. It is pretty well established that eyewitness testimony is one of the most unreliable forms of evidence. Human memory and visual perception are quite malleable, which can often lead to false memories or bad testimony. Virtually all contemporary accounts of that night state Booth shot during a loud moment during the play. This man's testimony some 65 years later can't possibly overturn all of the other contrary evidence. It should also be noted that there is no name or age attributed to this man, so it definitely should be looked at with scrutiny. COULD he have been there? Sure. But people claim all sorts of things with little to no supporting evidence. Someone's word alone is rarely sufficient.

@@Swede1066 "This man's testimony some 65 years later can't possibly overturn all of the other contrary evidence." I am in agreement with almost all you say, but you make your own counter-argument. Which is: who is to say that all of the other "contrary evidence" is correct? I, too, have always heard that Booth knew this play (Our American Cousin) quite well, and waited until the biggest laugh line before opening the door to Lincoln's booth. It makes perfect sense, but is it TOO perfect? No one really knows because there was no audio or video in those days. All of the stories about Lincoln's assassination have been passed down by no one OTHER than "eye witnesses," the very same type of evidence you say is questionable, right?

@@Swede1066 And the comments section of RU-vid by anonymous, unedited writers is a font of absolute truth, right? Sometimes I wish the comments sections would be universally shut off on here and the videos could stand on their own. It’s like being forced into a lunatic’s existence with millions of voices never giving us a moment’s peace.

@@kevinivers geesh, dont read them then if they annoy you that much, especially if they ‘force you into a lunatics existence.’ 🙄Having ‘millions of voices’ is called freedom, and silencing people is censorship…who wants to live in a tyrannical world like that!

@@jasminebaum9343 Right. Turning off comments on a website run by a private company is “tyranny”. Get your head examined.

Really puts in perspective how young this country is.

And how close seemingly distant points in history are. WW1 is as close to the Civil War as it is to Vietnam. @@SinoLegionaire

@@SStupendous wow never even thought of that!

it better have damn well been important!

@@elixtido1448 That is true even today in 2021. :)

Maybe it was: e7/1935, "Pop goes the Easel", or e14/1936, "Half Shot Shooters" or maybe even e53/1941, "So Long Mr Chumps" or e98/1949, "Malice in the Palace" Only cia knows!

I remember Robert Kennedy was shot late at night. After I was in bed.

@Humberto Ruiz the "NEVER TRUMPERS" we have now, had parents who were "NEVER A KENNEDY"