article_snippet: Clairvoyant Charles Colchester warned Abraham Lincoln that Abraham Lincoln life was in danger weeks before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, a historian claims.
article_snippet: It is thought Charles Colchester, a medium who was close to the first lady, told the president of threat in the early months of 1865.
article_snippet: Clairvoyant Charles Colchester had become close to first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, pictured centre .
article_snippet: But while Clairvoyant Charles Colchester may have been passing on the information as a mystic warning, it is likely the information came directly from the assassin - who was also his drinking companion.
article_snippet: Clairvoyant Charles Colchester's relationship with the president has been well-document, but until now historians have not connected the president with actor John Wilkes Booth, Professor Terry Alford writes in Fortune's Fool, a new biography of the assassin, according to The Times.
article_snippet: The medium became known to the Lincoln family after the president was summoned by first lady Mary Todd Lincoln when first lady Mary Todd Lincoln was looking to communicate with first lady Mary Todd Lincoln dead 11-year-old son, Willie.
article_snippet: Colchester, the illegitimate son of a duke, impressed Abraham Lincoln and was invited to hold a number of seances at the White House and the Soldiers' Home, the president's summer retreat.
article_snippet: Warning: Abraham Lincoln, was told the president life was in danger weeks before the president death, it is claimed .
article_snippet: On one occasion the president asked Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, to investigate how Colchester was able to summon noises in different parts of a room - evidence, the president claimed, of the president ability to communicate with spirits.
article_snippet: Mr Henry close relationship to the first lady allowed Colchester to become part of the Washington social scene.
article_snippet: What is known is that, in April 1865 - the month of the assassination - another friend urged the president to be mindful of the president personal safety
article_snippet: , Lincoln replied: 'Colchester has been telling me that'.
article_snippet: Colchester fled Washington after being confronted by a member of the president's inner circle following a blackmail attempt on the first lady.
highlights_snippet: Clairvoyant Charles Colchester had warned Abraham Lincoln of threat, Clairvoyant Charles Colchester is claimed .
  
highlights_snippet: Clairvoyant Charles Colchester was close to Abraham Lincoln family and also friend of assassin Booth .
  