Strange but true

shellspeare

Lincoln and Kennedy

Here's a little part of US history which makes you go h-m-m-m:
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.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
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.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were 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.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Kennedy.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln.'
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught 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.

bonzai bob

it must be a parallel universe:eek:

Chinafoot

our statistics teacher told us that one last year....it's cool.

fred funk }{

I read that before but its amazing all the same.

*adele*

Is it really true?

Pigman II

A favourite chain mail of mine but its accuracy is questionable at best.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm

(also I don't know if Snopes mentions it but Lincoln was shot at 'Fords Theatre' not 'Kennedy Theatre'

segadreamcast

Damn it Pigman II, you're always beating me to the Snopes references! Bah!

Gordon

But Lee Oswald didn't kill Kennedy.

The_Conductor

Gordon wrote:

But Lee Oswald didn't kill Kennedy.

Prove it....

DEmeant0r

Pigman II wrote:

A favourite chain mail of mine but its accuracy is questionable at best.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm

(also I don't know if Snopes mentions it but Lincoln was shot at 'Fords Theatre' not 'Kennedy Theatre'

Does Snopes have to ruin the fun in everything?

Rhyme

weird... so weird, my chocolate addled brain cannot think too deeply at the moment... so ill just leave it at that.

Kernel

smccarrick wrote:

Prove it....

Just watch Oliver Stone's film JFK... easier than explaining!

Winters

Back and to the left.

Piste

shellspeare wrote:

Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

That was a bit careless....

Trip Hazard

Thats is truely freaky, its almost like the US government is planned centuries in advance. Its cant just be coincidence. I dont have anything else to say on that subject... Strange

Ms Beanbag

just the synchronisity of the universe-

Victor

Gordon wrote:

But Lee Oswald didn't kill Kennedy.

I'm sorry, all assassins must be referred to by using their full (including middle) name.

Gordon

?

I was talking about Lee Oswald, dunno why people think I'm talking about LHO.

Lee Oswald the construction magnate, I'm surprised there was a confusion.

Matthewthebig

Funneh

Crania

I heard that before but still really weird

Naos

shellspeare wrote:

Lincoln and Kennedy
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.

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe.

now THAT woulda have been a kicker...

Romo

More strangeness.

"Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abe Lincoln, was present at the assassinations of three Presidents: his father's, President Garfield's and President McKinley's. After the last shooting, he refused to attend any State affairs. He would not have been present at these events if it hadn't been for the brother of John Wilkes Booth, who saved his life years earlier."

Tobias Greeshman

I've never heard those similarities before, really strange. Takes the word coincidence to a new level.