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Posted by G4MER on Wed Jul 13th at 4:01am 2005

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.


Creepy huh? Send this to as many people as you can, cause: Hey,
this is one history lesson people don't mind reading



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Posted by Cassius on Wed Jul 13th at 4:12am 2005





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Posted by Crono on Wed Jul 13th at 4:14am 2005

Lincoln wasn't really concerned with civil rights. All he wanted to do was keep the Union in tact, if he could have done that without freeing a single slave: he would have.

But, yeah, that's creepy, if it's all true. It is, however, a series of coincidences.


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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jul 13th at 9:52am 2005

Slavery wasn't what the civil war was about, it was just a perk. Had there been no slaves at all, the war would have still come about.

Civil rights however, were not the motive either.. If I recall, It was Northern greed. The south was the money source, and the north didn't want them to become financial independent OF the north.

At that time in our history, had the souths textiles and such not been processed in the north, the money flow would have dried up leaving a mini depression up there.

In other words, the rich of the north sparked it to keep the south "in their place"

Independence of the south took years afterward, so in the end, the north got its wish.

Bottom line, the civil war was driven by the north, by inflaming the youth of the time into thinking they were losing their preferred life style.. The north, the ones with the cash anyways, didn't give a rats ass as to how many slaves were "owned"

Consider a correlation today. Religion is dying, at least in the US.. A few discontents are sparking hatred in an attempt to gain sympathy and for the old concept. The bulls**t about the words "under God" being removed, and the "10 commandments" being removed from this or that is bulls**t of the monumental kind.

Most people couldn't care less about either yet a very vocal few keep it stirred up in the hopes that they will gain popularity enough to retain them.. When, if they hadn't brought it up in the first place, they would have had no worries at all.

Its like, 10 normal/straight/white people get killed daily in a given region and no one notices, but let a black or gay person get killed and it makes the front page.. That is not a racial or prejudiced comment, just an overall observation.. The vocal minority always uses discontent to get noticed. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">





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Posted by Andrei on Wed Jul 13th at 10:59am 2005

If you read the Bible carefully (well, our version at least; never read the catholic one and never will) you'll come to the conclusion that, if all of it's authors had lived in the same period they wouldn't have gotten along with each-other at all. Just like saying "It's ok to be homosexual" on Monday only to say "It's bad to be homosexual" on Friday . This is a dangerous thing if you have fundamentalists who work "by the book".



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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Jul 13th at 11:02am 2005

Has it occurred that maybe the assassin of Kennedy knew all this, and planned it all in this way?




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Posted by Andrei on Wed Jul 13th at 11:26am 2005

Maybe but he couldn't have planned everything over there especially the secretary's name and the Monroe thing. And I don't think Kennedy's assassin planned when and where he wanted to get born nor who would succeed the dead president either . He didn't plan his name either. Your theory falls under my words of wisdom yet again <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> .




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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Jul 13th at 12:45pm 2005

I hope you have gone to a safe house somewhere Money S, as the masterminds behind this conspiracy are probably in the process of having you spirited away; not before you've publicly denounced these claims though, of course <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">.



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Posted by RaPtoR on Wed Jul 13th at 2:14pm 2005

Nice, there are some errors and some things i would like to add though.

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Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

More similarities:

In each case, that Friday was one before a holiday.
Lincoln was shot on Good Friday and Kennedy was shot on the Friday before Thanksgiving.

Both were seated beside their wives when shot.

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Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln' made by 'Ford.'

More similarities:

Lincoln sat in Box 7 at Ford's Theater. Kennedy rode in car 7 in the Dallas motorcade.

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Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.


Unfortunaltly this is not true. Lincoln had two secretaries, John J. Nicolay and John M. Hay.

Read more about it here.

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John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

This is almost true. :P
Booth was born in 1838 and Oswald was born in 1939

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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.


Yeah what a kicker <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">
The problem is that Marilyn Monroe died died August 5, 1962 and that was over a year before the assasination.

I could add many more things but i assume you could just use this link:
http://home.comcast.net/~sharonday7/Presidents/AP0701.htm

:P



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Posted by jaardsi on Wed Jul 13th at 2:29pm 2005

This thing has been around for ages now. :P

Some funny stuff never the less.




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Posted by Natus on Wed Jul 13th at 2:41pm 2005

awesomeness <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">



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Posted by French Toast on Wed Jul 13th at 5:42pm 2005

Cool.




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Posted by satchmo on Wed Jul 13th at 5:52pm 2005

Lots of ways to explain the coincidences. Johnson is a very common name, and so is the name "Lincoln" and "Kennedy".

There are lots of warehouses and theaters around, and these are good places to hide and blend in. So that's not so shocking.

No one mentioned that they were both dressed at the time they were shot, because that's expected.

I am not so impressed by the coincidences, but they are interesting to note.




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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jul 13th at 6:17pm 2005

Coincidences occur all to often. A series of them is however unique.. This one qualifies as such.





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Posted by DrGlass on Wed Jul 13th at 6:18pm 2005

I dont doubt that more of that isn't quite true.

I see this as another case of people finding pattern in static.





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Posted by ReNo on Wed Jul 13th at 6:47pm 2005

Did you hear the one about the mystical number "7" tying together all the events of the London bombings? It was even more contrived - people do just seem to try and spot anything to link things together. I'll agree that many of those coincidences are quite surprising, but nothing I'd read into too much. And like DrGlass, I wouldn't be surprised if a fair portion of that is not quite how its made out.




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