Cutlass Men through History --- Robert Todd Lincoln

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Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s eldest son, was present at 3 of the 4 presidential assassinations and was the only one of Lincoln’s 4 children to survive past 18 and outlive both parents...

The trauma of his father’s murder in 1865 shaped him deeply but his proximity to presidential death did not end at Ford’s Theatre. In 1881 he was standing just feet away from President James Garfield when Garfield was shot inside a Washington DC railway station. And in 1901 he was in Buffalo when President William McKinley was assassinated at the Pan-American Exposition. After that third event he famously refused future presidential invites saying in effect that tragedy seemed to follow him.

And there is another surreal twist. Years before Lincoln was murdered Robert Todd nearly fell between a moving train and the platform. A stranger reached out and pulled him to safety. That man was Edwin Booth. The brother of John Wilkes Booth.


(From the interwebz so ... may be bunk ... but a good story none the less.)

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