Look what happens when a President gets elected in a year with a "0" at the end. Also notice it goes in increments of 20 years.

1840: William Henry Harrison (died in office)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (assassinated)
1880: James A. Garfield (assassinated)
1900: William McKinley (assassinated)
1920: Warren G. Harding (died in office)
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (died in office)
1960: John F. Kennedy (assassinated)
1980: Ronald Reagan (survived assassination attempt)
2000: George W. Bush (?)

You might also be interested in this. 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.
Southerners assassinated both.
Southerners named Johnson succeeded both.

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 '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 in Marilyn Monroe.

The above was e-mailed to me by a friend this morning. How true it all is, I couldn't tell.

COOL!!!!!!

Booth committed the crime in a theater and hid in a warehouse.

Oswald did it in a warehouse, and hid in a theater.

could it all be true?

Marilyn Monroe died on August 5, 1962 so she was dead more than a year before Kennedy died in late 1963. That part of the story doesn't wash.

Booth and Oswald have gone down in history known by three names because the media usually identifies infamous criminals by their first, middle and last names to minimize confusion with people that have similar names. If your name was William Arthur Clinton, I am sure that you would appreciate the difference. I do not believe that either Booth or Oswald were known by three names in their lifetimes.

While Oswald could be said to have been assasinated, Booth was shot by a soldier that was part of a group trying to burn him out of a barn. So Booth was killed by law enforcement.

Mort Canard

[ 08-03-2003, 04:28: Message edited by: Mort Canard ]

Mart why must you kill our fun with "Facts"? heh