Samuel L Seymour

Who Witnessed Lincoln’s Assassination as a Child?

On the evening of April 14, 1865, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. But did you know that there was a child in the theater who witnessed his assassination? Samuel J. Seymour witnessed Lincoln’s assassination as a child. He made a […]

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