Thursday Afternoon Diversion: In These Times

By Kevin Robinson in Arts & Entertainment on Mar 29, 2012 8:00PM

Do you ever think about what the world will be like in 50 years? What you'll tell your grandchildren or little kids in the neighborhood about what it was like to meet Barack Obama, see the White Sox win the World Series or where you were when the Challenger disintegrated? This film clip of 96-year-old Samuel Seymour's appearance on "I've Got a Secret" in 1956 puts into perspective the passage of time and how generations overlap. Indeed, though it seems to be distant history today, our grandparents would have known people that fought in the Civil War when they were children.