[Az Joe]

Theodore and his brother, Elliot, watch Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession passing their grandfather’s mansion in Union Square, Manhattan, April 1865. Theodore and Elliott are in the second-floor window facing the camera.

[married21]

Theodore and Elliot who?

[Leaning Right]

Here’s a clip from the old TV show “I’ve Got a Secret”. The year was 1956. The contestant witnessed Lincoln’s assassination!

https://youtu.be/1RPoymt3Jx4

[PGR88]

As a child, mother recalls her old uncle Robert, born in 1854, telling her how as a boy, he climbed a telegraph pole in Buffalo NY, to watch Lincoln’s funeral cortege pass by.

It was always an interesting story until one day we were in town and visited the Buffalo History Museum. We saw a photo of Lincoln’s funeral cortege stopped in front of city hall at the time. And there, on a telegraph pole across the street, was a shadow of a figure...

[Az Joe]

Theodore and Elliot ROOSEVELT