#28: What Are the Chances?
What we consider today to be historical events are sometimes just the products of simple day-to-day coincidences that wouldn’t have meant anything if they didn’t have a connection to some other, more meaningful event. This is surely the case for a random man saving a dead President’s son from a train accident, only made significant by the identity of the savior.
You’re probably asking how Mr. Edwin Booth (also an actor) felt about the incident. Well, he wasn’t aware at the time who it was he had saved, but it’s said that when he did find out, it was quite a relief as Edwin had disowned his brother after the latter went crazy and killed the Commander-in-Chief.