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<p>[QUOTE="proofartoncircs, post: 1264431, member: 25952"]Yes, it was Robert Todd Lincoln. Evidently his life was saved by John Wilkes Booth's brother a few months before the assasination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Presence at assassinations Robert Lincoln was coincidentally either present or nearby when two presidential assassinations occurred.[SUP]<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-6" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-6"><font size="2"><span style="color: #0645ad">[7]</span></font></a>[/SUP]</p><ul> <li>At President <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/James_A._Garfield" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/James_A._Garfield"><span style="color: #0645ad">James A. Garfield</span></a>'s invitation, Lincoln was at the Sixth Street Train Station in <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Washington,_D.C." class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Washington,_D.C."><span style="color: #0645ad">Washington, D.C.</span></a>, where the President was shot by <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau"><span style="color: #0645ad">Charles J. Guiteau</span></a> on July 2, 1881, and was an eyewitness to the event. Lincoln was serving as Garfield's <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_War" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_War"><span style="color: #0645ad">Secretary of War</span></a> at the time.</li> <li>At President <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/William_McKinley" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/William_McKinley"><span style="color: #0645ad">William McKinley</span></a>'s invitation, Lincoln was at the <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Pan-American_Exposition" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Pan-American_Exposition"><span style="color: #0645ad">Pan-American Exposition</span></a> in <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York"><span style="color: #0645ad">Buffalo, New York</span></a>, where the President was shot by <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Leon_Frank_Czolgosz" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Leon_Frank_Czolgosz"><span style="color: #0645ad">Leon F. Czolgosz</span></a> on September 6, 1901, though he was not an eyewitness to the event.</li> </ul><p>Lincoln was not present at his father's assassination.[SUP]<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-7" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-7"><font size="2"><span style="color: #0645ad">[8]</span></font></a>[/SUP]He arrived at Ford's Theater shortly after his father was shot.</p><p>Lincoln himself recognized the frequency of these coincidences. He is said to have refused a later presidential invitation with the comment "No, I'm not going, and they'd better not ask me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."[SUP]<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-8" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-8"><font size="2"><span style="color: #0645ad">[9]</span></font></a>[/SUP] He did attend the dedication of the <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial"><span style="color: #0645ad">Lincoln Memorial</span></a>, in 1922, in the presence of both President <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Warren_G._Harding"><span style="color: #0645ad">Warren G. Harding</span></a> and former President <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/William_Howard_Taft"><span style="color: #0645ad">William Howard Taft</span></a>, however. President Harding proceeded to die in office, barely half-way through his only term, fifteen months and one day later; the former president (and then-Chief Justice of the United States) survived another eight years.[SUP]<font size="2">[<i><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"><span style="color: #0645ad">citation needed</span></a></i>]</font>[/SUP]</p><p>[h=2][<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/w/index.php?title=Robert_Todd_Lincoln&action=edit&section=8" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/w/index.php?title=Robert_Todd_Lincoln&action=edit&section=8"><span style="color: #0645ad">edit</span></a>] Robert Lincoln and Edwin Booth[/h]In an odd coincidence, Robert Lincoln was once saved from possible serious injury or death by <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Edwin_Booth" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Edwin_Booth"><span style="color: #0645ad">Edwin Booth</span></a>, brother of <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth"><span style="color: #0645ad">John Wilkes Booth</span></a>. The incident took place on a train platform in <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Jersey_City" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Jersey_City"><span style="color: #0645ad">Jersey City</span></a>, <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/New_Jersey" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/New_Jersey"><span style="color: #0645ad">New Jersey</span></a>. The exact date of the incident is uncertain, but it is believed to have taken place in late 1864 or early 1865, shortly before John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln.</p><p>Robert Lincoln recalled the incident in a 1909 letter to Richard Watson Gilder, editor of <i>The Century Magazine</i>:</p><blockquote><p><i>The incident occurred while a group of passengers were late at night purchasing their sleeping car places from the conductor who stood on the station platform at the entrance of the car. The platform was about the height of the car floor, and there was of course a narrow space between the platform and the car body. There was some crowding, and I happened to be pressed by it against the car body while waiting my turn. In this situation the train began to move, and by the motion I was twisted off my feet, and had dropped somewhat, with feet downward, into the open space, and was personally helpless, when my coat collar was vigorously seized and I was quickly pulled up and out to a secure footing on the platform. Upon turning to thank my rescuer I saw it was Edwin Booth, whose face was of course well known to me, and I expressed my gratitude to him, and in doing so, called him by name.</i></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>Months later, while serving as an officer on the staff of General <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant"><span style="color: #0645ad">Ulysses S. Grant</span></a>, Robert Lincoln recalled the incident to his fellow officer, Colonel Adam Badeau, who happened to be a friend of Edwin Booth. Badeau sent a letter to Booth, complimenting the actor for his heroism. Before receiving the letter, Booth had been unaware that the boy whose life he had saved on the train platform had been the President's son. The incident was said to have been of some comfort to Edwin Booth following his brother's assassination of the President.[SUP]<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-9" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-9"><font size="2"><span style="color: #0645ad">[10]</span></font></a>[/SUP][SUP]<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-10" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-10"><font size="2"><span style="color: #0645ad">[11]</span></font></a>[/SUP][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="proofartoncircs, post: 1264431, member: 25952"]Yes, it was Robert Todd Lincoln. Evidently his life was saved by John Wilkes Booth's brother a few months before the assasination. Presence at assassinations Robert Lincoln was coincidentally either present or nearby when two presidential assassinations occurred.[SUP][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-6"][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0645ad][7][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/SUP] [LIST] [*]At President [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/James_A._Garfield"][COLOR=#0645ad]James A. Garfield[/COLOR][/URL]'s invitation, Lincoln was at the Sixth Street Train Station in [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Washington,_D.C."][COLOR=#0645ad]Washington, D.C.[/COLOR][/URL], where the President was shot by [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau"][COLOR=#0645ad]Charles J. Guiteau[/COLOR][/URL] on July 2, 1881, and was an eyewitness to the event. Lincoln was serving as Garfield's [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_War"][COLOR=#0645ad]Secretary of War[/COLOR][/URL] at the time. [*]At President [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/William_McKinley"][COLOR=#0645ad]William McKinley[/COLOR][/URL]'s invitation, Lincoln was at the [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Pan-American_Exposition"][COLOR=#0645ad]Pan-American Exposition[/COLOR][/URL] in [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York"][COLOR=#0645ad]Buffalo, New York[/COLOR][/URL], where the President was shot by [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Leon_Frank_Czolgosz"][COLOR=#0645ad]Leon F. Czolgosz[/COLOR][/URL] on September 6, 1901, though he was not an eyewitness to the event. [/LIST]Lincoln was not present at his father's assassination.[SUP][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-7"][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0645ad][8][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/SUP]He arrived at Ford's Theater shortly after his father was shot. Lincoln himself recognized the frequency of these coincidences. He is said to have refused a later presidential invitation with the comment "No, I'm not going, and they'd better not ask me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."[SUP][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-8"][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0645ad][9][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/SUP] He did attend the dedication of the [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial"][COLOR=#0645ad]Lincoln Memorial[/COLOR][/URL], in 1922, in the presence of both President [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Warren_G._Harding"][COLOR=#0645ad]Warren G. Harding[/COLOR][/URL] and former President [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/William_Howard_Taft"][COLOR=#0645ad]William Howard Taft[/COLOR][/URL], however. President Harding proceeded to die in office, barely half-way through his only term, fifteen months and one day later; the former president (and then-Chief Justice of the United States) survived another eight years.[SUP][SIZE=2][[I][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"][COLOR=#0645ad]citation needed[/COLOR][/URL][/I]][/SIZE][/SUP] [h=2][[URL="http://www.cointalk.com/w/index.php?title=Robert_Todd_Lincoln&action=edit§ion=8"][COLOR=#0645ad]edit[/COLOR][/URL]] Robert Lincoln and Edwin Booth[/h]In an odd coincidence, Robert Lincoln was once saved from possible serious injury or death by [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Edwin_Booth"][COLOR=#0645ad]Edwin Booth[/COLOR][/URL], brother of [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth"][COLOR=#0645ad]John Wilkes Booth[/COLOR][/URL]. The incident took place on a train platform in [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Jersey_City"][COLOR=#0645ad]Jersey City[/COLOR][/URL], [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/New_Jersey"][COLOR=#0645ad]New Jersey[/COLOR][/URL]. The exact date of the incident is uncertain, but it is believed to have taken place in late 1864 or early 1865, shortly before John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln. Robert Lincoln recalled the incident in a 1909 letter to Richard Watson Gilder, editor of [I]The Century Magazine[/I]: [INDENT][I]The incident occurred while a group of passengers were late at night purchasing their sleeping car places from the conductor who stood on the station platform at the entrance of the car. The platform was about the height of the car floor, and there was of course a narrow space between the platform and the car body. There was some crowding, and I happened to be pressed by it against the car body while waiting my turn. In this situation the train began to move, and by the motion I was twisted off my feet, and had dropped somewhat, with feet downward, into the open space, and was personally helpless, when my coat collar was vigorously seized and I was quickly pulled up and out to a secure footing on the platform. Upon turning to thank my rescuer I saw it was Edwin Booth, whose face was of course well known to me, and I expressed my gratitude to him, and in doing so, called him by name.[/I] [/INDENT]Months later, while serving as an officer on the staff of General [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant"][COLOR=#0645ad]Ulysses S. Grant[/COLOR][/URL], Robert Lincoln recalled the incident to his fellow officer, Colonel Adam Badeau, who happened to be a friend of Edwin Booth. Badeau sent a letter to Booth, complimenting the actor for his heroism. Before receiving the letter, Booth had been unaware that the boy whose life he had saved on the train platform had been the President's son. The incident was said to have been of some comfort to Edwin Booth following his brother's assassination of the President.[SUP][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-9"][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0645ad][10][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/SUP][SUP][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/#cite_note-10"][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0645ad][11][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/SUP][/QUOTE]
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