History’s Greatest Jinx?

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Abraham Lincoln, Almon Rockwell, James Garfield

One man was present at the assassinations of both President Abraham Lincoln and President James Garfield, some sixteen years apart.

Before reading his extraordinary circumstances, consider the chain of events that would give a person a front row seat to the murders to two presidents. Bad luck, a curse, temporal manipulation, or something more sinister? What other moments of doom might he witness? Can you think of two other similarly momentous historical events that could be linked by the presence of one person? What happens next?