Witness to President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Speaks: Enhanced Video & Audio [60 fps]

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Amazing! I'm watching a man from 91 years ago tell me about an historical event that he was a witness to 156 years ago. Thank you for sharing! Closest thing I'll ever get to a time machine!

It's one thing to read history, it's something else entirely to listen to a man who was there while it was being made.

I worked in a senior home last year and one of the gentlemen who lived there who was 98 told me how he spoke to and had pictures with Civil War veterans. I was fixing something in his apartment one day and he pulls out photographs of him as a young boy in the 1930's at a gathering for Civil War vets. There he was standing next to an old man in an Union Army uniform. I was speechless. It shows how young the United States is and how we must appreciate our history and those who lived it.

The way he paused and closed his eyes tells us how emotional and traumatic the experience was.

When I was eight years old, I met my father's Great-Uncle, who was 108 years old at the time. He was still quite lucid and knew who I was, and told me he'd heard I was interested in Civil War history[the Centennial of the Civil War was just beginning]. He told me about how his father had taken him and his older brother up to Cleveland to view President Lincoln's body as the Funeral train for Lincoln had stopped in Cleveland on it's way to Springfield.

It's been said already but I feel it bears repeating: The look of pain on his face after he talks about Lincoln dying in that house says everything we need to know about how momentous and terrible an event this was.

He bought the $1 ticket.. so he was also a man of some means. We forget the value of a dollar. This man was on point and I for one, am extremely grateful for his testimony.

"From whence..." "the sharp report of a revolver"....love it.

Thankfully these people were smart enough to record and get a lot of these interviews especially with Civil War veterans before they passed away.

And he still felt the pain of that day.

After watching this video, the thought crossed my mind that this man was recalling an assassination which occurred 60 years ago from the date of his discussing the event. I remember the day President Kennedy was shot, school was dismissed early. I walked home to find my mother, a staunch Republican, sitting in front of our B&W T.V. sobbing. The news coverage lasted several days without commercials; nobody in my neighborhood was allowed to go outside and play. The adults would stop talking whenever us kids would be around. Life seemed to stop for a time. It was the start of what would become a miserable decade of protests, assassinations, and anarchy in the streets. And despite what some know nothings claim, the decade ended with men walking on the moon. Just one Boomers' recollection of events from 50+ years ago.

WOW! I just cannot believe I just heard a man who was actually THERE speak of it! Thank you so much for putting up this video! It is mind blowing in that it gives one the strange feeling of actually going back a bit in time.

My niece and I took the Ford's Theater tour several years ago, which included a tour of the Petersen House, directly across the street. To stand in the room where President Lincoln died was surreal. If you ever find yourself in Washington, please spend a few hours and take this tour. Well worth it.

This video should be installed at Ford's Theater or at the Petersen House. This is an eyewitness account of what happened. It must be preserved for all of history to hear. A very important film.

An amazing tale of a true historical event. I'm soon to be 51 and my grandmother lived from 1908-1996. Her grandfather was in the 53rd Ohio infantry regiment. He lived from 1840-1925. He was at the Battle of Shiloh, the entire Vicksburg campaign, the entire Atlanta campaign and in the March to the Sea. He survived it all, but was hard of hearing from the battle noise. Hr told my grandmother some amazing true stories of the civil war from a real union soldier. She shared some of this with me. Never forget the past. RIP grandma Nadine

That was extremely interesting and chilling... The way this elderly man closed his eye momentarily after he said that’s where the president died the following morning. I remember learning about President Lincoln in my 5th grade History Class in 1968.

Imagine being him on that porch and seeing the president carried by you. One of the biggest moments in american history

This man lived through the assassinations of three presidents during a 36 year period: Lincoln in 1865, Garfield in 1881, and McKinley in 1901. In addition, Warren Harding died in office seven years prior to this interview.

When I was a kid (1960's) the last man to have seen the face of Lincoln was still alive. His mother had taken him to view Lincoln lying in state.