MSNBC Fireside History With Michael Beschloss December 24, 2021 22:24:00
Some kind of indescribable symptoms that weren't evident at first. that was the night before christmas, literally, and his little red tricycle had already been assembled. it was under the christmas tree. and when he got to the infirmary, they didn't let him out. they discovered that he had scarlet fever. he died on january 2nd, and so this whole christmas season for my grandparents was both heartbreaking, on the one hand, but my grandmother, who was never one to be slowed up by emotion to the point that she couldn't function, decided probably in the mid-1920s that she was going to make christm...