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Booth's brother, Edwin, was a somewhat famous stage actor who ardently
supported the Union during the Civil War. While in a train station in New Jersey, Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, leaned up against
a stopped train, nearly falling onto the tracks as it started up again. Edwin Booth grabbed him by the collar and saved him just in time.
The younger Lincoln recognized his hero and wrote about the
incident, but it wasn't until years later that Booth found out whom he had saved.
John Wilkes Booth's brother saved Abraham Lincoln's son from death.
And that same son of Lincoln's witnessed three presidential assassinations.
Though he wasn't there at the theatre during his father's fateful shooting
he was rushed to his deathbed and sat by his side until the elder Lincoln passed away.
Later, he was an eye-witness to the killing of President James A. Garfield. Finally, in 1901
Lincoln was nearby in Buffalo, New York, at the invitation of President William McKinley, when the president was fatally killed.
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