(Original run on CBS 1952 – 1976)

February 9, 1956

Mr. Seymour lived in Maryland and died in April of 1956, 91 years after 
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Senator Huey Long

U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made what would become his longest
and most dramatic filibuster on Senate record. The speech took 15 hours
and 30 minutes with a total of 150,000 words. Long’s efforts only delayed
the inevitable passage of the bill he was trying to prevent.. When Long
was forced to yield the floor to use the restroom, the Senate voted on,
and passed the resolution. He was later assassinated on September
8 of that same year.

Dr. Charles Leale

(AP) The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was
shot in a Washington theater rushed to his ceremonial box and found
him paralyzed, comatose and leaning against his wife. Dr. Charles
Leale ordered brandy and water to be brought immediately. The
Army surgeon had been seated 40 feet from Lincoln at Ford’s
Theater that night in April 1865. 

Dr. Leale, who was 23 and just six weeks into his medical practice when
Lincoln died, never spoke or wrote about his experiences again until
1909 in a speech commemorating the centennial of the president’s
birth. 

Leale’s long-lost report of efforts to help the mortally wounded president, 
written just hours after his death, was discovered late last month by
researchers in a box among correspondence of the U.S. surgeon
general at the National Archives.

Drawing of Lincoln’s Death Bed

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968)

Robert F. Kennedy speaks to campaign workers at the Ambassador
Hotel minutes before being shot.

Following a brief victory speech delivered just past midnight on Thursday,
June 5 at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy was shot by
Sirhan Sirhan. Mortally wounded, he survived for nearly 26 hours, dying
early in the morning of June 6.

Senator Kennedy lies wounded on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel, 
after being shot by his assailant.  Kennedy’s wife Ethel is shown at 
lower left.

Recent mug shot of Sirhan