Lincoln
and Kennedy: Bound by coincidence
Yesterday while I was in the
Library, I spotted a rather large and colorful book. Upon further
inspection I found out that it was titled: Ripley's Believe it or
Not. I had seen the TV show and eagerly checked it out.
When I started
reading the book, it fascinated me. Robert Ripley was a
person who made a living by finding "exotic" abnormalities
in the world. As I read on I found strange facts like the
headless hen and Bozo the mind reading dog. I knew that this was real
because not only were these broadcasted on TV, but had real pictures!
One of the
greatest unexplained phenomena was the strange relationships between President
J.F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln.
Consider these strange facts:
- Both Kennedy
and Lincoln were deeply involved in the civil rights
issues of the era, in Lincoln's day, the issue was slavery, in
Kennedy's, it was segregation.
- Lincoln's assassin,
John Wilkes Booth, was born in 1839. Kennedy's assassin, Lee
Harvey Oswald, was born in 1939, a hundred years later.
- Lincoln had a
secretary named Kennedy who warned him not to go to the theater the
night he was killed. Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who warned
him not to go to Dallas where he was killed.
- Both were shot
on Friday.
- Both were shot
from behind.
- Both wives
were present.
- Booth shot
Lincoln in a theater and ran into a warehouse; Oswald shot Kennedy from
a warehouse and ran into a theater.
- Both were
succeeded by men named Johnson
- Both Johnsons
were democrats from the south.
- The Johnson
who succeeded Lincoln was born on 1808; the Johnson who suceeded
Kennedy was born on 1908.
- Both
presidents' names contain 7 letters, their successors' names contain
13 letters, there assassins contain 15 letters.
Response :
Re : Lincoln
and Kennedy: Bound by coincidence : Avijit Roy
Re : Lincoln
and Kennedy: Bound by coincidence : Aparthib Zaman
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