by francopoli

On February 9, 1956, a 95-year-old Samuel J. Seymour appeared on the U.S. game show, I've Got a Secret. The celebrity panel was eventually able to guess Seymour's "secret": He had been in attendance at Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination. Only 5 years old on the day of the April 1865 shooting, Seymour was the last living witness to the event. He died two months after the telecast.