Presidential Assassins
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11-20-2012, 11:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-20-2012 11:48 PM by Ashley Norman.)
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RE: Presidential Assassins
I remember reading an article that Robert Lincoln was there or neae all the assassanation's execpt for Kennedy's.
Robert died in 1926 so thus excluding Kennedy's assanation due to Robert dieng before hand but here is what I read about Robert's being near most of the assanation or near them so here is what I read: Robert Lincoln was coincidentally either present or nearby when three presidential assassinations occurred. Lincoln was not present at his father's assassination. But he was nearby and arrived at Ford's Theater shortly after his father was shot. At President James A. Garfield's invitation, Lincoln was at the Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C., where the President was shot by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, and was an eyewitness to the event. Lincoln was serving as Garfield's Secretary of War at the time. At President William McKinley's invitation, Lincoln was at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, where the President was shot by Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, though he was not an eyewitness to the event. 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." He did attend the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, in 1922, in the presence of both President Warren G. Harding and former President William Howard Taft, however. Warren G. Harding later died in office.. Im not sure how accurate this is but im sure someone in the group will be able to assist me to help idenify what is true or false with in the statement. Thanks a |
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