Video interview with a man who witnessed Lincoln's assassination
Samuel Seymour (previously) was just five years old when his parents brought him to see a production of Tom Taylor's three-act play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. But that's not the only thing young Seymour saw that night: he also witnessed a wealthy actor named John Wilkes Booth sneak up behind the President of the United States and shoot him in the head. — Read the rest