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Pelethan
Joined: 15 Nov 2006
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:11 am Post subject: Kennedy and Lincoln Coincidences |
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Hi all,
laughter...
Abraham Lincoln: Elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy: Elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln: Elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy: Elected President in 1960.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both had wives who lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both were shots in the head.
Lincoln's secretary, Kennedy, warned him not to go to the theatra.
Kennedy's secretaryd, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas.
Both Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated by Southerner.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnsons.
Andrew Johnson, who succeededm Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was borna in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth was born inf 1839.
Lee Harveye Oswald was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by theirt three names.
Both names are comprised of fifteen letters.
Booth ran from the theater and was caughtk in a warehouse.
Oswald ran frome a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before theirn trials.
How do you think? Government conspiracy or coincidences? ;)
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DallasLoanGuy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm |
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Mac
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: Knightdale, NC
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya gotta love snopes! This Lincoln/Kennedy crap is just that, crap. |
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Jenie0109
Joined: 27 Jan 2009
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Location: chicago IL
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| what a great post. It really does look like a conspiracy or merely a coincidence.. Intresting facts. |
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rose123
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This cosmic story began not long after President Kennedy was assassinated. I first heard about the "remarkable" coincidences probably in Jr. High School. So, some of this story is old. Recently a document has been circulating on the internet outlining even more "remarkable" coincidences. A copy was forwarded to me by a colleague who had little to do one recent (05/01/00) morning. Being a skeptic, I decided that it might be fun to examine these coincidences using only information available on the World Wide Web, plus what I could remember from my high school U.S. History class. Here is what I determined.
In what follows I will first summarize an alleged "amazing fact" in the cosmic connection as reported on the WWW, and then comment on what I verified about it using the WWW.
* Alleged Amazing Fact
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Comment
This is, of course, no more remarkable than two victims of assassination being elected 96 years apart or 104. One hundred is just such a nice, round number that people see extreme significance in it--much like they did the year 2000, for instance. There are many people who have been elected president 100 years apart. And each being assassinated doesn't deepen this coincidence one iota, because we chose two assassinated leaders and then found that by coincidence they were elected 100 years apart.
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