That was just one of the many dark, surreal things that happened to him his whole life he took with good humorhttps://twitter.com/UncleOok/status/813787918376599553 …
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There was also the time Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth's older brother, saved Robert Todd Lincoln's life
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Edwin Booth randomly grabbed Robert Todd Lincoln and stopped him from falling off a train platform in New York
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And said there was no need to thank him, because, well, you know
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There's a story that John Wilkes Booth was angry that his dad and his brother were both more famous actors than him
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So he vowed that at Ford's Theatre he would give a performance that would outshine his father's legacy on the stage forever
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Edwin Booth was literally a case of your asshole brother going "I'd like to kill the President!" and you disinviting him from Thanksgiving
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Not that you really could get a rich famous white guy arrested for threatening the President back then, but you still gotta wonder
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Hell you can't now, judging by the lack of response to Ted Nugent's crap
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this is my favorite thread I've followed in ages.
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