...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...
I think half of the part about the secretaries isn't true.
I do not know about the Monroe thing.
FWIW, Snopes says it's false (http://www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp).
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.
I'd say the biggest problem is that Oswald did not actually assassinate Kennedy. 8)
Sure he did! He had a magic bullet, remember? :P
It might be bullshit - it might not - but I loved this film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MLc0udf_74
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! >:(
Everyone knows he didn't Toonces! ;D
Jim Carey was the gunman on the grassy knoll. He said so in a movie.
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..
^ I actually thought that myself when I read it! ;)
No, Mick Jagger shot Kennedy. It's on vinyl.
We did too.