History Mystery

[Sean Troy]

History Mystery

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.

[Mitchell Andrus]

Cool. A few more on Lincoln/Kennedy:



Both presidents had 7 letters in their last name.



Both were over 6' feet tall.



Both men studied law.



Both seemed to have lazy eye muscles, which would sometimes cause one to deviate.



Both suffered from genetic diseases. It is suspected that Lincoln had Marfan's disease, and Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease.



Both served in the military. Lincoln was a scout captain in the Black Hawk War, and Kennedy served as a navy lieutenant in World War II.



Both were boat captains. Lincoln was a skipper for the Talisman, a Mississippi River boat, and Kennedy was skipper of the PT 109.



Both had no fear of their mortality and disdained bodyguards.

Both presidents were named after their grandfathers.

Both were born second children.



Both married while in their thirties. Lincoln married at 33 and Kennedy married at 36.



Both married dark-haired, twenty-four-year-old women.



Both wives died around the age of 64. Mary Todd Lincoln died in 1882 at age 63 years and 215 days, and Jackie Kennedy died in 1994 at age 64 years 295 days.



Both wives were known for their high fashion in clothes.



Both wives renovated the White House after many years of neglect.



Each couple had four children, two of whom died before becoming a teen.

Each couple lost a son while in the White House. Willie Lincoln died at age 12 in 1862, and Kennedy's son Patrick died two days after his birth in 1963.
Both often stated how easy it would be to shoot the president. Lincoln supposedly said, "If somebody wants to take my life, there is nothing I can do to prevent it." Kennedy supposedly said "If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it." Note that both these quotes are each 16 words long.



Here are a few others proving that sometimes things line up just right:



German General Rommel -Montgomery's adversary in an earlier Campaign in N. Africa Commits suicide on October 14, 1944 {101444}



The Battle of Hastings took place on October 14 {101466}



Eisenhower's Birthday was October 14 {101490}

[Pat Germain]

I've seen those comparisons before. Although very interesting, they're really not as amazing at it would seem:

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp

[Michael Weber]

History Mystery


A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.




:D where's a big old animated laughing smiley when you need one.

[Chris Damm]

You do know that that first came out over 40 years ago don't you. I remember seeing that in high school and I graduated in 1967!

[Bob Borzelleri]

Both Kennedy and Lincoln drove hybrid cars. The reason so few people know this historical fact is that the Secret Service was pretty unhappy about both of them sneaking out to take long drives on their own. The agents kept both activities under wraps.

[Belinda Barfield]

Had Monroe, Maryland, been dead for a year as well? :eek:

[Paul Atkins]

And the most amazing thing was they were both men!