Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird.
Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln .
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln , was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford.'
Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the kicker...
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe , Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
2007-03-30 05:10:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Not long after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, the above list of amazing coincidences appeared, and it has been widely and continuously reprinted and circulated ever since. Despite the seemingly impressive surface appearance, several of these entries are either misleading or factually incorrect, and the rest are mere superficial coincidences that fail to touch upon the substantial differences and dissimilarities that underlie them.
The "kicker" that you claim is a latter-day addition to the list and nothing more than a bit of salacious humor. Even as a humorous coincidence it fails the test, as Marilyn Monroe died well over a year before Kennedy's assassination. Check out the following site which addresses each of the misguided urban myths that you listed.
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp
2007-03-30 18:41:58 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not quite.
Lincoln was not "particularly concerned with civil rights." During the series of presidential debates when asked about freeing the slaves to preserve the Union, he said "If I could preserve the Union by freeing all of the slaves, I would do it; if I could preserve the Union by freeing some of the slaves, I would do it, and if I could preserve the Union by freeing none of the slaves, I would do that as well." Civil rights was NOT on his list of priorities.
John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838, not 1839.
Booth was born in Bel Air, Maryland. Maryland was not a Southern state, and Booth was not a Southerner. A Southern sympathyzer, yes, but a Southerner, no.
Booth didn't run to a warehouse; he was cornered by Federal forces in a tobacco barn on a farm in Maryland owned by Richard Garrett.
Oswald was assassintated; Booth was not. Booth was killed in a firefight with Federal troops who were trying to capture him. To this day there's some serious doubt that it was really Booth that was killed, but that's another topic.
The rest of the items listed are accurate, and are indeed a strange twist of fate.
2007-03-30 13:27:43 · answer #2 · answered by Team Chief 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love Monroe jab, pretty funny.......
Historians have been putting these similarities together probably since the day after JFK was assassinated.
History is one of those fascinating subjects that never seems to "get old" - sorry, been a busy day and I'm getting punchy......
2007-03-30 12:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by free_eagle716 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, this stuff came out right after Kennedy was killed. Just goes to show ya that, if you work hard enough, you can put together any statistics you want.
2007-03-30 15:20:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is to explain???? These are facts. Why should a history teacher "explain" anything about them? These series of facts have been known for a long time (MANY YEARS). Nothing new.
Chow!!
2007-03-30 12:29:55 · answer #5 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm a historian--and you're not the first to notice those paralells.
And it is weird--but there's no explanation (empirically) other than sheer coincidence.
But one thing that is fascinating about history is that you find that truth reallly is stranger than fiction.
2007-03-30 12:17:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i got no thing on that one. My friend (who is a history teacher) was just blown away she never noticed that.
That cant be coincidence it is just too perfect omg
that is disturbing.
2007-03-30 12:26:08 · answer #7 · answered by smallmindedfool 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to snopes.com They have a lot about this myth.
2007-03-30 13:31:46 · answer #8 · answered by dk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's amazing,and it makes you wander about destiny and so on.
2007-03-30 12:14:52 · answer #9 · answered by wheeliemad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cool....very interesting
anyway thats history aint it
2007-03-30 12:26:04 · answer #10 · answered by riya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋