Anyone seen this yet? (Great email)

[The Doctor.]

This was sent to me by a client I haven't seen in years.
I have not researched all of the points, but if it's true, it's definitely fascinating.

Have a history teacher explain this if they can?
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>> Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
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>> John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
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>> Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
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>> John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
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>> Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
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>> Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.
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>> Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
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>> Both Presidents were shot in the head.
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>> Now it gets really weird.
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>> Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
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>> Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.
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>> Both were assassinated by Southerners.
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>> Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
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>> Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808
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>> Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
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>> John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee
>> Harvey
> Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
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>> Both assassins were known by their three names.
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>> Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
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>> Now hang on to your seat.
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>> Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."
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>> Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."
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>> Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
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>> And here's the "kicker":
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>> A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
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>> A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
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>> AND.....................
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>> 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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>> Creepy, huh? Send this to as many people as you can because, hey,
>> this is one history lesson people don't mind reading...

Anyone else see this?

[SaveElmer]

1. First time you've seen this?

This thing has been around since I was a little kid (and I'm 44 now).

[Horse with no Name]

Snopes take on it

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm

[The Doctor.]

5. LOL- yeah, I figured there was a little 'massaging' of the numbers...

But it's still nifty that there are a number of interesting coincidences.

[ck4829]

2. I have a book of paranormal stuff

Yes, it's in there.

And, it's a pity that these two had to die at the hands of evil.

[converted_democrat]

3. That is STRANGE..........n/t

[electropop]

4. Uh oh, only 55 years until the next assassination?

Next time it might be a President Johnson attacked at the Kennedy Center in DC.

Or the President's Johnson gets him killed by his wife Mary Todd,

or...

[BlueJac]

6. Heard it years ago

It is interesting though.

[PatrioticLeftie]

7. Weird

But is it all true?

[The Doctor.]

10. Check the Snopes link Horse with no Name posted upthread.

A lot of it is true... but given more gravity than necessary.

[EnfantTerrible]

8. Got it about an hour ago...

i've seen this before a couple of years back.

[maveric]

9. Marylin Monroe died in 1962. JFK killed in 1963.

So someone pulled that one out of their ass.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000054/

[oasis]

11. So Kennedy wasn't in Marilyn after all.

:evilgrin:

[Time for change]

12. This is indeed weird

I do have a couple of problems with it though:

Although Kennedy may or may not have been shot by LHW from the warehouse, the shot that killed him did not come from LHW or the warehouse -- it came from the grassy knoll.

All the doctors who treated Kennedy at the hospital agreed that the fatal shot came from the front.

[The Doctor.]

13. Well, yeah...

But it's the 'official' story they're working with.

Fun stuff nonetheless.

[Roland99]

14. First time I saw that was probably about 24 years ago...

right after the attempt on Reagan's life.