Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert, was present or nearby at three successive presidential assassinations:
On April 14, 1865, his parents invited him to accompany them to Ford’s Theater. He remained at the White House and heard of his father’s death near midnight. On July 2, 1881, he was an eyewitness to Garfield’s assassination at Washington’s Sixth Street Train Station. On Sept. 6, 1901, he was present at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., when McKinley was shot.
In 1863, a stranger saved his life in a Jersey City train station. The stranger was Edwin Booth — the brother of John Wilkes Booth, his father’s future assassin.
Watching America: The History of Us episode about the 1920s and they pull up this map highlighting the major organized crime bosses bootlegging around the country during prohibition besides Al Capone. The names are priceless and worthy of a Scorcese film:
Lucky Luciano - New York
The Licavoli Family - Detroit
Frank “Chee Chee” DeMayo - Kansas City
Joseph “Iron Man” Ardizzone - Los Angeles
Harry Rosen - Philadelphia
Charles “King” Soloman - Boston
