I don't know how true this is...

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January 21, 2013, 02:05:39 AM Last Edit: January 21, 2013, 02:07:53 AM by JudgeDredd
...but someone posted it on FB and I thought I'd share it here - get some feedback on truth (too eraly for me to go rooting around for facts - must make the kids breakfast and clean the car of snow)


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 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 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 "Ford."
Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."


Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.


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


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...
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Longdan

#1
January 21, 2013, 02:29:11 AM
I think half of the part about the secretaries isn't true.
I do not know about the Monroe thing.
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Greybriar

#2
January 21, 2013, 02:31:19 AM
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Martok

#3
January 21, 2013, 06:54:23 AM
That list has been going around for years now.  Most of the coincidences that are factual are also (for the most part) pretty trivial.  It is perhaps slightly odd that there's so many of them, but otherwise it's actually unremarkable. 

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Jarhead0331

#4
January 21, 2013, 08:14:18 AM
I'd say the biggest problem is that Oswald did not actually assassinate Kennedy.  8)
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Martok

#5
January 21, 2013, 09:49:01 AM
Sure he did!  He had a magic bullet, remember?  :P 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

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"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

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JudgeDredd

#6
January 21, 2013, 10:20:55 AM
It might be bullshit - it might not - but I loved this film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MLc0udf_74
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Toonces

#7
January 21, 2013, 03:18:25 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on January 21, 2013, 08:14:18 AM
I'd say the biggest problem is that Oswald did not actually assassinate Kennedy.  8)

Oh no you didn't just go there!   >:(
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JudgeDredd

#8
January 21, 2013, 03:38:24 PM
Everyone knows he didn't Toonces!  ;D
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Longdan

#9
January 21, 2013, 03:43:32 PM
Jim Carey was the gunman on the grassy knoll.  He said so in a movie.
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Pinetree

#10
January 22, 2013, 04:50:46 PM
QuoteA week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe.

Fixed it for you..
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JudgeDredd

#11
January 22, 2013, 05:56:19 PM
^ I actually thought that myself when I read it!  ;)
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besilarius

#12
January 22, 2013, 06:15:56 PM
No, Mick Jagger shot Kennedy.  It's on vinyl.
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Longdan

#13
January 22, 2013, 07:30:06 PM
We did too.
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