[PRCo] Re: Lincoln

[Dennis Fred Cramer]

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Abraham Lincoln & the 2nd American Revolution  1991 McPherson        Oxford
Abraham Lincoln:  His Speeches & Writings          1946 Basler 
DaCappo
Day Lincoln was Shot                                            1955-1965 
Bishop     Scholastic
Lincoln 
1995 Donald               Simon & Shuster
Lincoln & His Generals                                          1952 
Williams             Vintage
Lincoln at Gettysburg                                             1992 Wills 
Touchstone
Lincoln in American Memory                                 1994 Peterson 
Oxford
Lincoln The President  Volume 1                            1946-1997 Randall 
Da Capo
Lincoln The President  Volume 2                            1946-1997 Randall 
Da Capo
Mary Todd Lincoln:   Life & Letters                       1972-1987 Turner 
Fromm

This is a short list of Lincoln reading.  I would highly recommend the 1995 
Donald biography, the 1952 Williams book on Lincoln's relationship with his 
generals and the two books of letters/speeches.  We can learn a lot by 
reading what they actually said, both Lincoln and his wife.
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Visit Springfield, IL; Hodgenville, KY; Manchester, VT; and Washington, DC.
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Some Lincoln/Kennedy coincidences?
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.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were 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 comprised of fifteen letters.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford's".
Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln - made by Ford Motor Co".

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.

Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Both John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald were assassinated before their 
trials.

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Lincoln has no direct descendants.  The last descendant of Abraham Lincoln, 
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died in 1985.

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There is coincidence in regard to Robert Lincoln and presidential 
assassinations. He was either present or nearby when three of them occurred.

  a.. Robert Lincoln was invited to accompany his parents to the Ford's 
Theatre the night his father was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 
1865. Citing fatigue from riding in a covered wagon for an extended period 
of time, he declined, and remained behind at the White House, where he 
immediately went to bed. He was informed of his father's being shot just 
before midnight.
  a.. At President James A. Garfield's invitation, Robert Lincoln was at the 
Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C., where the President was shot 
by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, and was an eyewitness to the event. 
Lincoln was serving as Garfield's Secretary of War at the time.
  a.. At President William McKinley's invitation, Robert Lincoln was at the 
Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, where the President was shot 
by Leon F. Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, though he was not an eyewitness to 
the event.
  a.. Robert Lincoln is interred at Arlington National Cemetery where 
President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest after his assassination in 1963. 
Also, the assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers is buried less than 
300 yards away from Lincoln at Arlington.
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The History Channel will show a new film on the bizarre events following the 
arrival of Lincoln's body back to Springfield.   Monday, Feb 16, 2009  09:00 
PM
       Stealing Lincoln's Body:
      Before Lincoln finally came to rest in a steel-and-concrete-reinforced 
underground vault in Springfield, the President's body was repeatedly 
exhumed and moved, his coffin frequently opened. In 1876, eleven years after 
Abraham Lincoln's assassination, a band of Chicago counterfeiters plotted to 
steal Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom. Their plan was to demand 
$200,000 and the release of the gang's master engraver, who was in prison in 
Illinois. The Secret Service--recently formed to deal with the country's 
ballooning counterfeiting problem--infiltrated the gang with an informer. It 
also set in motion a cringe-inducing chain of events in which a group of 
well-intentioned, self-appointed guardians took it upon themselves to 
protect Lincoln's remains by any means necessary. This strange story of 
Lincoln at un-rest reveals how important this man was to so many, and 
perhaps our reluctance to let such a beloved and visionary leader go.



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Lincoln failed at many things, he was vilified in the press, and was willing 
to change his mind as events unfolded (what a unique concept).

Listen to Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait"


Dennis F. Cramer
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