Robert Todd Lincoln and the Ironic

Robert Todd Lincoln has the rather grim distinction of being a kind of Presidential death magnet. Although he wasn’t present at his father’s assassination [he was  in the White House that night playing cards with one of his father’s secretaries] he was an eye witness to Garfield’s assassination in 1881, and was at the same World’s Fair where McKinley was assassinated in 1901. He was also saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth the brother of his father’s killer, John Wilkes Booth.