damn! you must read this...and tell me what you feel real creepy?

Question

No history teacher told us the following( I suppose) ...

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 a child while living in the WhiteHouse.


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 1839
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born 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."


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.


and Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran
to a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran
to a theater.


what dou you think it????

Answer 1

Origins: 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.

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
This statement is literally true: both Lincoln and Kennedy were first elected to Congress one hundred years apart. Aside from that minor coincidence, however, their political careers bore little resemblance to each other.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Surely this is the most trivial of coincidences, especially considering that the two men's first names contain different numbers of letters, and that Kennedy had a middle name (Fitzgerald) while Lincoln had none.

We're supposed to be amazed at minor happenstances such as the two men's being elected exactly one hundred years apart or having the same number of letters in their last names, but we're supposed to think nothing of the numerous non-coincidences: Lincoln was born in 1809; Kennedy was born in 1917. Lincoln died in 1865; Kennedy died in 1963. Lincoln was 56 years old at the time of his death; Kennedy was 46 years old at the time of his death. No striking coincidences or convenient hundred-year differences in any of those facts. Even when we consider that, absent all other factors, the two men had a one in twelve chance of dying in the same month, we find no coincidence there: Lincoln was killed in April; Kennedy was killed in November.

Lincoln's secretary, Kennedy, warned him not to go to Ford's Theatre.
Kennedy's secretary, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas.
This is one of those coincidences that isn't a coincidence at all -- it's simply wrong. John Kennedy did have a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln (who may or may not have warned him about going to Dallas), but one searches in vain to find a Lincoln secretary named Kennedy. (Lincoln's White House secretaries were John G. Nicolay and John Hay.)

The rest are debunked at the following site:

Answer 2

Well, some of these 'facts' are a bit off so they really aren't all true. but look at it this way. Lincoln was president for six years or so; Kennedy was President for almost three years; Lincoln had a beard; Kennedy didn't. Lincoln's first name had 3 syllables. Kennedy's had one. Lincoln grew up poor. Kennedy grew up rich. Oswald was a drifter. Booth was an actor. etc, etc. I bet you could assemble about 1,000,000 facts that show how different each man's life was. You mentioned about 10 that had resemblances. It doesn't mean anything.

Answer 3

Lincoln was assassinated in a theater, but John Wilkes Booth did not run into a warehouse. Instead, he hid out in various locations, fleeing from the law. He was eventually trapped in a BARN. When he refused to come out, they lit it on fire, and then he came out.

Answer 4

The coincidences are easily explained as the simple product of mere chance. It's not difficult to find patterns and similarities between any two marginally-related sets of data, and coincidences similar in number and kind can be (and have been) found between many different pairs of Presidents.

Our tendency to seek out patterns wherever we can stems from our desire to make sense of our world; to maintain a feeling that our universe is orderly and can be understood.

In this specific case two of our most beloved Presidents were murdered for reasons that make little or no sense to many of us, and by finding patterns in their deaths we also hope to find a larger cosmic "something" that seemingly provides some reassuring (if indefinite) rhyme or reason why these great men were prematurely snatched from our mortal sphere.

Answer 5

There is a so-called curse when a US president was elected in a year ends in a zero, all the presidents were assassinated except for Ronald Reagan (there was an assassination attempt he got shoted but he survives). I think he broke the curse.

Answer 6

Didn't J.W. Booth conspire together with others to do his dastardly deed? Is it safe to say then that Oswald did not act alone, and refute the findings of the Warren Commission?

Answer 7

Coincidence.

Answer 8

Saw it shortly after he was shot. Remarkable coincidences. Almost makes one believe in cyclic history ala Spencer.

Answer 9

that is pretty freaky and way too coincidental. but if we follow the order, the future President that is elected to Congress in 2046 will have the same fate????? i hope not..that's trippy.

Answer 10

Wow!! That's awsome! Talk about your History repeating its self! or shall we say His- Story.