Can a 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 their wives lost a child 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."

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.

AND...................:

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 theatre...

Worth a share ...!!

K

Hmmmm cool

k

Human imegination

@Dukecharles


- Both their predecessors left office in their seventies and retired to Pennsylvania. James Buchanan, whom Lincoln succeeded, retired to Lancaster Township; Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom Kennedy succeeded, retired to Gettysburg.

- Both presidents were concerned with the problems of black Americans and made their views strongly known in '63. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which took effect in 1863. In 1963, Kennedy presented his reports to Congress on Civil Rights, and the same year was the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

- Both presidents were shot in the head on a Friday seated beside their wives. Both Fridays preceded a major holiday observed within the week.

- Both presidents were accompanied by another couple.

- The male companion of the other couple was wounded by the assassin.

- Both presidents had a son die during their presidency.

- Both presidents fathered four children, only one of whom survived into the next century and who served other presidents by political appointment.

- Both presidents' wives died in their sixties after an untimely decline in health, during the administration of a president who had seen their husbands in Washington, D.C. the same year as the assassination.

- Both presidents' last names have 7 letters.

- Both assassins died in the same month as their victim in a state adjacent to the state of their birth.

- Both assassins were Southern white males born in the late '30s, who were in their mid-20s.

- Both assassins were killed before being tried, by men who were reared in the North, changed their name as adults, and were bachelors.

- Both assassins shot the fatal bullet while in a building where they worked on a floor above ground level.

- Both assassins suffered injuries during escape.

- Both assassins sympathized with a government that was adversarial to the interests of the United States.

- Both had body guards named William, William H. Crook told Lincoln not to go the assassination point, William Greer drove JFK to the assassination point. Both bodyguards died within 48 hours of being aged 75 years, 5 months.