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Samuel J. Seymour witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and lived long enough to tell his story on television in 1956 for the show “I’ve got a secret”. He was 5 years old when his godmother took him to see “Our American Cousin”. He sat in the balcony across from Lincoln’s presidential box. He remembered Lincoln waving and smiling as he made his way to his rocking chair. He heard the gun shot and saw Lincoln slumped forward in his chair. He didn’t understand what happened to Li

Independence Hall and the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln In this edition of "On Location" with a National Park Service Ranger, Ranger Thomas Daniels presents, "Independence Hall and the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln." Following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, an elaborate public funeral returned his body to Illinois for burial. In Philadelphia, Lincoln's remains lay in repose in the Assembly Room of Independence Hall, where just four years earlier Lincoln had spoken of his