| Samuel J. Seymour’s Safety Pin | |
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Origin |
Samuel J. Seymour |
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Type |
Safety Pin |
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Effects |
Lets the person remember all events in their life |
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Downsides |
The user will not remember important events in great detail |
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Activation |
Being pricked by it |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 12 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
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Shelf |
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Date of Collection |
February 16, 1894 |
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Origin[]
Samuel James Seymour (March 28, 1860 – April 12, 1956) was the last surviving person who had been present in Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. When Seymour was five, his godmother, Mrs. George S. Goldsboro, took him to see Our American Cousin. He claimed the two sat in the balcony on the side opposite Lincoln's box. Seymour reported that "I complained tearfully that I couldn't get out of the coach because my shirt was torn—anything to delay the dread moment—but Sarah (nurse Sarah Cook) dug into her bag and found a big safety pin. I shook so hard from fright, it caused Sarah to accidentally stab me with the pin. I hollered 'I've been shot! I've been shot!'"
Once in the theater, Seymour settled down. He saw the President across the balcony as he was waving and smiling at people. Seymour said "I began to get over the scared feeling I'd had ever since we arrived in Washington, but that was something I never should have done. All of a sudden a shot rang out—a shot that always will be remembered—and someone in the President's box screamed. I saw Lincoln slumped forward in his seat." Seymour did not actually see the assassination but did witness Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth jump off the balcony. In fact, he revealed that because he did not know Lincoln was shot or that Booth had shot him, his real concern was for Booth.
Effects[]
The user can remember all past events in their life with great detail, except for the most important ones. They can remember the event, but are unable to remember the most important aspect(s) of it. If they were to remember the last day they saw their parents, for example, they could see the surroundings in great detail but would be unable to locate their parents in the memory. If they did, they would only appear as gray smudges, like that of an old photograph.