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What kind of a creature would do this?

There he stood, grinning as he pulled the trigger.

His pistol, smoking, talking about politics, talking about Chester, Arthur, becoming president.

The man just shot the president of the United States in a public train station in front of the Secretary of State and the president's own son, who is now admonishing the crowd in the station to clear away so his fallen father could be attended to.

Who was this madman? In an act of mercy, he's saved

from the crowd that wants to pull him apart. He's saved by a police officer. He tells the crowd,

they are mistaken. This had to be done. I had to shoot the president. Asking the police officer to contact William

Tacomsa Sherman, the general, and bring the army in. It's all part of a plan, he says.

Incredible enough, in this crowd is Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Lincoln. He had just been

at his father's bedside. Fifteen years before, he's now President

Garfield's Secretary of War. Oddly enough, Robert Lincoln will be part of two more. This

cursed man will see another president shot, and a New York City mayor as well.

Right now, he quickly summons the doctor that he remembered treating his own father at his bedside.

The babbling fool talks of stalwarts, talks of half-breed, talks of politicians like he knows them.

He's aware of all the political development. And I think this is key. Thank you. Charles Gatot will now become the most hated man in America in 1881,

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