Sunday, November 16, 2014

Late night open thread

This'll put your head on a swivel if you have not heard the story before. In 1864 President Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd, was on his was home to Washington D.C. from Harvard and was standing on a train platform in Newark. As a train began to pull out his jacket got caught causing Lincoln to lose his balance and start to fall onto the tracks. His jacket was grabbed by a stranger and he was pulled up and saved from severe injury or perhaps death. Lincoln immediately recognized the person who saved him, famous actor Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth who would assassinate Lincoln's father the very next year.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

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