In an interesting article on a completely non-Lizzie related matter, about the WWII collection of a former war correspondent for the New York Sun, whose surviving son Terry put together and donated to the Margaret Chase Smith Library Center in Skowhegan, the subject of Lizzie Borden arises.
Robert C. McManus, who died in 2000 at the age of 97, was present for some important events during the war years.
He gathered signatures from crew members on the Enola Gay right after it dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945. He was on the deck of U.S.S. Missouri when the Instrument of Surrender was signed by the Japanese on Sept. 2, 1945. He mingled with such historic men as U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as history was being made more than 60 years ago.
Son Terry is the one who brings it up. Out of the blue, there she is.
Terence McManus, a retired union laborer who served in the U.S. Navy and conducted naval intelligence, recalled an unusual life growing up: “When we lived in New Jersey, I used to pass by every day where the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped… Lizzie Borden was my third cousin.”
And so it goes.
Link to entire article from the 30 April 2007 MaineToday.com.
