Your Head Trucker fondly remembers this classy show from when it was still current. A couple of clips here - the first one just takes my breath away, to think that this man actually was there in Ford's Theater that awful night - and lived to tell about it on television, for gosh sakes:
And then just for laughs, here's one of the more amusing examples of a guest whose occupation stumped the panel:
2 comments:
I liked the show and watched regularly, but I don't remember the witness to Lincoln's shooting.
See the people thinking and speaking literately! Not so common on the tee vee these days.
Yes, literately - what a concept. But that kind of literacy is not taught in schools anymore, nor is it valued by the Mass Mind.
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