This country, we really haven't been around that long...

And that's dating the U.S. all the way back to the Declaration of Independence. I'm 62, not exactly young but it's not like I'm in my late 90's either.

when I think back that my father was born in the 1800's! That, really makes me feel like a fossil in 2012! LOL

Thanks for sharing.

throughout his life. Bless his heart.

watching the show.

Holy crap!

20 days before the Soviets launched Sputnik.

Great year!

wonder if his header down the stairs had something to do with it.

We overlapped a little.

Hard to imagine we shared time with this man, but a good reminder about how close history can be to us.

That was fascinating.

(Hey, it's just as nutsoid as those saying George HW Bush was involved in JFK's murder...)

The one is impossible, the other quite possible.

"A more civilized time."

that conclusion with so few questions.

Amazing. Thanx for posting.

I'm sure, to him, it probably looked like part of the show, given the campiness (for 1865) of the comedy on stage. The play, Our American Cousin, was at the point of its greatest laugh (Booth assumed); actor Harry Hawk exclaimed, ""Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal; you sockdologizing old man-trap!"

A sharp rapport reverberated through the theatre, followed by a woman's scream. A man falls to the stage, stumbles to his feet, waves his knife in the air and exclaims "Sic Semper Tyrannus!"

I've read so much about it over the years I feel like I was there...

including the demeanor of the panelists, the deference and politeness of Garry Moore, the prize money, $80, and a carton of Winston cigarettes, but since the gentleman smoked a pipe, they gave him a can of Prince Albert.

We have had quite the Metamorphosis over my lifetime...

in the early '60's The TODAY show had a Native American fellow that was at
Little Big Horn.

He had a patient (in the 1970's) who sat on her father's knee listening to tales of Waterloo. She was over 100 and on receiving her telegram from the Queen informed the Lord Mayor of Manchester that "I di' it! an wi' out being wed!"

She also cleaned her upstairs windows until about the age of 95 - the outside of her upstairs sash windows by sitting on the window ledge with her legs inside the house.

...in the Memorial Day parade when he was a kid, and I remember the last Union vet died when I was 9...Good Lord, I am old!

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Thanks, and I'd like to echo all the positive comments I've read in this thread. Kudos for a unique topic that takes us out of the grittiness of politics for a few moments.

Thanks.

I would have been 10 years old, and my parents watched it regularly. I remember watching the show, too, but I don't remember this one. We're all closer to the past than we think.

not just about the assassination (which is amazing enough, as he was the last surviving eyewitness) ...but more generally about the changes he had seen over his lifetime. He was way more interesting than a game show.

just wow.

Everything is documented now. I wonder about that. Imagine what people will say in hundreds of years from now about our current events when they watch them in history class.

That clip was very cool indeed.