Differences And Similarities Between Lincoln And Kennedy
American presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were both tragically assassinated during their terms in office. Both men were admired by many but actually hated by those who opposed their political views. Shortly after Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, a comparison of the circumstances of his death and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 surfaced. That comparison pointed out some amazing coincidences. Apparently Lincoln had a dream several days before the assassination that he had been killed. He told his wife that he had seen himself in a casket. Some skeptics say that you could take any two famous people and find a number of similar-type coincidences between them. The only problem with that theory is
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Lincoln was shot in Ford’s theater while sitting in box seven with another couple of whom one was seriously injured. Kennedy was shot in a ford Lincoln while riding in car seven with another couple of whom one was seriously injured. Both Lincoln and Kennedy’s autopsy was performed by Military Personnel.
These coincidences are easily explained as the simple product of mere chance. It’s not difficult to find patterns and similarities between any two marginally related sets of data, and coincidences similar in number and kind can be found between many different pairs of Presidents. Our tendency to seek out patterns wherever we can stems from our desire to make sense of our world; to maintain a feeling that our universe is orderly and can be understood. In this specific case two of our most beloved Presidents were murdered for reasons that make little or no sense to many of us, and by finding patterns in their deaths we also hope to find a larger cosmic that seemingly provides some reassuring rhyme or reason why these two great men were prematurely snatched from our mortal
Lincoln was shot in Ford’s theater while sitting in box seven with another couple of whom one was seriously injured. Kennedy was shot in a ford Lincoln while riding in car seven with another couple of whom one was seriously injured. Both Lincoln and Kennedy’s autopsy was performed by Military Personnel.
These coincidences are easily explained as the simple product of mere chance. It’s not difficult to find patterns and similarities between any two marginally related sets of data, and coincidences similar in number and kind can be found between many different pairs of Presidents. Our tendency to seek out patterns wherever we can stems from our desire to make sense of our world; to maintain a feeling that our universe is orderly and can be understood. In this specific case two of our most beloved Presidents were murdered for reasons that make little or no sense to many of us, and by finding patterns in their deaths we also hope to find a larger cosmic that seemingly provides some reassuring rhyme or reason why these two great men were prematurely snatched from our mortal