The last living witness to Lincoln’s assassination died a year before I was born:
I can’t help but have the sensation that culturally, he had more in common with the viewers of this program than we do. The gulf between 1956-2011 is immensely more vast than the one between 1865-1956.
HT: American Catholic, which is keeping track of all the paparrazzi coverage of my lifestyle of the rich and famous.