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(12-22-2014 12:32 AM)Thomas Thorne Wrote:  I bet none of you Lincoln assassination buffs knew it was Millard Fillmore in drag and not Mary Todd who accompanied AL to Ford's theater on 4/14/65 .

In Buffalo a large crowd assembled around Fillmore's house when news of the assassination spread. The crowd was protesting Fillmore's decision not to drape his home in mourning for the death of Lincoln. Apparently the people didn't realize the former president was really still in Washington. It would seem a Fillmore double told the mob his wife was ill, and he hadn't the time to drape the house. Many people in the angry crowd bought the double's explanation and departed the scene, but there was a report that some people in the mob smeared black paint on the ex-president's house.