Sneaky's Daily Did You Know....? - What a Coincidence

A few months before Loncoln's assassination, a student, on his way home to visit his parents, fell into the path of a oncoming train at a Jersey City railway station. He was rescued by an actor on his way to visit a sister in Philadelphia. The student was Robert Loncoln; the actor was Edwin Booth. It was Booth's elder brother who would shortly murder Lincoln's father.

Robert Lincoln was at the scene of three presidential assassinations. In 1865, he rushed to Ford's Theatre where his father lay fatally wounded. In 1881, he was at James Garfield's side seconds after the President had been shot. And 20 years later, he was on the point of joining William McKinley at Bufalo, New York, when he learned that McKinley too had been shot dead.