13/01/2026
Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of Abraham Lincoln, had a tragic and strange connection to presidential assassinations. He was present (or nearby) when three different U.S. Presidents were assassinated: his father, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley. After the third event, he famously refused to attend any more presidential functions, saying there was a "fatality about presidential occasions" when he was present. Even stranger? Shortly before his father was killed, Robert’s life was saved at a train station by Edwin Booth—the brother of John Wilkes Booth.