Political assassinations may be rare, but remarkably one man had a front row seat for those of three U.S. presidents: Robert Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln’s eldest son. On the night Lincoln was shot, Robert had declined his father’s invitation to attend a play at Ford’s Theater, but rushed to his bedside afterward and was present when he died. More than 15 years later, as President James Garfield’s Secretary of War, Lincoln was strolling with the president in Washington D.C.’s Sixth Street Station in July 1881 when a gunman, Charles Guiteau, fired twice on Garfield, who died a few months later. Fate struck a third time 20 years later, when Lincoln, invited by President William McKinley to attend the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, arrived to find that McKinley had just been shot by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz. When Lincoln was invited by the next president, Theodore Roosevelt, to visit the White House, he declined, observing, “There is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present.”
Man Who Witnessed The Assassination Or Death Of 3 Presidents
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