[PRCo] Re: Lincoln

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Mr.Cramer;


Thank you very much for your efforts;  this is another keeper you have written.

There is a certain 'spookiness' to the coincidences to use a term isn't there;
'history repeating' can be seen in these as well.

Did you teach other subjects beside music?


Phil




> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dennis Fred Cramer <trombone at windstream.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:20:44 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Lincoln
> 
> You asked for more:
> 
> 
> 
> 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
>       Trombone