can any history teacher explain this?

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

 

Change to "he was in Marily Monroe" much funnyer and more similar.

 

this could really blow your mind,it sure did to me

 

Brilliant.

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cool .

 

And sometimes, when you're lucky, it's even accurate.

 

More similarities between Lincoln and Kennedy:

Lincoln proved a backwoods hick could become president; Kennedy proved a hedonistic Catholic could become president.

Both were viewed as charming if not elegant in their human foibles and eccentricities.

Both were largely forgiven for their disasterous legacies.

Both pulled their country into unnecessary and ruinous war.

 

Whoa who would have thought that? I mean seriously it isn't like you wake up one day and go hey you know what....

Very cool.

 

The Cival War was unnessacary? Explain

 

holy jezz. Thats werid, could it be reincarnation?

 

thats some sketchy shit man. cant say anything right now. damn.

 

Although, even if the snopes debunking is all true, it's one thing to have one or two coincidences...but isn't it a little different when you have a major list like that? Some, true, are dumb like the number of letters in a name, but still, it is kinda weird.

 

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.(lincoln was concerned with preserving the union)
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.(thats a pretty common place to shoot someone when you want to kill them)

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.(big goddamn deal, theres lots of kennedys and lincolns)

Both were assassinated by Southerners.(southerners have guns)
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.(johnson is the most common last name in the united states)

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.(people usually dont like presidential assassins

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland(prove it)
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.(was he visiting her grave or what?)



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

 

Glad you asked...

I know we were told that the Civil War was necessary to free the slaves, in much the same way we are now told the invasion of Iraq is necessary to protect the world from Saddam Hussein and his supposed 'weapons of mass destruction', but both wars were really about economic and political control of important resources.

Abraham Lincoln himself admitted that were it not necessary to 'preserve the Union' (i.e. to preserve the U.S. government's power over the southern states), he would have been happy to leave slavery intact and allow it to die a natural death. Preserving his administration's economic, political and military power was Lincoln's chief aim, and, with his great skills of rhetoric and oratory, he was able to convince his constituents that preserving the centralized power of the government was the same as preserving democracy (a lie that continues to be promulgated today). It was Lincoln and the Civil War that transformed the United States from a peacable federation to a military superpower.

Yes, Abraham Lincoln did indeed free the slaves, but only when it was expedient to do so to further his political aims. I have heard it said that if Lincoln had not freed the slaves, Robert E. Lee would have freed them in his own way. Perhaps his way would not have led to a ruined and desperate South and a hundred years of lynchings, terror and segregation. Did we really 'have to destroy the South in order to save it'?

Prior to the Civil War, the United States were a loose federation of largely autonomous states. A careful reading of the constitution confirms this. The Civil War, despite what we were told, was nothing more than an unprovoked invasion of the independent southern states carried out for the consolidation of economic and political power.

Just in case anyone is wondering what kind of redneck rebel I am, let me say that I am a New England Yankee through and through - I just happen to have studied my history

 

Here in the South, the Civil War is sometimes referred to as the War of Northern Aggression.

 

As for the Lincoln/Kennedy connections . . . purely coincidence, nothing more.

 

Them damn Yankees.

 

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