Episode 62: Chance Encounters

About the Episode

Train stations are busy places and two notable men had very remarkable (and dramatic)encounters in stations during the 1860s. Thomas Edison met a mentor, and Robert Lincoln met a Shakespearean actor named Booth.
Also features a You Have 30 Seconds segment on the Beale Papers and more!

Young newspaper mogul and accidental firestarter Thomas Edison

Robert Lincoln in the 1860s (Library of Congress)
Edwin Booth in his most famous role

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