i got the email as well, but the way eunice shredded the email to bits was fantastic and i thought i’d copy and paste it here. i laughed so hard, i cried.
‘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 theatre named ‘Ford.’ Kennedy was shot in a car called ‘ Lincoln ‘ made by ‘Ford.’ Lincoln was shot in a theatre and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theatre.
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.
Creepy huh? Send this to as many people as you can, cause: Hey, this is one history lesson most people probably will not mind reading!’
now this is obviously just coincidence or mind-blowing ignorance.
Firstly John F Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States in 1961 and Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president in 1861. get the facts right.
snipers and assassins usually go for the head because that’s the fastest way to kill some one, obviously. so there’s nothing significant about them both being shot in the head. lots of people in history have been shot in the head.
Both presidents were really famous and I would think well loved to an extent that borders deification. Thus the assassins who killed them would be infamous and would be known by their full names as are many famous or infamous people. let’s have examples: franklin delano roosevelt, napoleon bonaparte, Gaius julius caesar, and many more.
as for both being succeeded by Johnsons, Johnson is the second most common last name in the United States so I don’t see what’s so special about both presidents being succeeded by people with the last name Johnson, especially since both johnsons were vice presidents.
and so what if both people were assassinated by southerners? firstly the south has so many people there’s an equal chance of an assassin coming from there as other parts of the states. in fact there is a much greater chance compared to a place like new england. furthermore, the civil rights pursued by Lincoln and Kennedy in favour of african americans in the US pissed the southerners off. They liked having their slaves, and even after slavery was abolished the local courts and systems of governance in the south were still very much prejudiced in favour of white people even when they committed crimes against black people. so it’s not surprising that the assassins were southerners in either case because they were the ones that were the most pissed off by Lincoln trying to abolish slavery or kennedy trying to improve life for black people in the US.
The probability of both presidents being killed on a Friday isn’t that large. roughly 2%. before you jump out of your seat shouting about how there must be some kind of mystery here because it sounds like a tiny probability, let’s just say that probability is not the only factor here. Friday might be a more convenient day for an assassin to go after a president if he’s more likely to make public appearances on those days. It’s the end of the working week for most people as well, which might be the reason why public appearances might be scheduled on those days.
as for the car being called ‘lincoln,’ there are so many things named after famous people like washington apples. for god’s sake, if some one was killed while eating a washington apple, it doesn’t imply they were some how freakily related to george washington in the least.
ok I’m getting tired of tackling this thing. the only creepy thing in here is the level of ignorance and the eagerness to find some thing unexplainable even though it clearly is. who ever wrote this was an idiot.
