Talk:Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend/Archive 1

Thank you
Thank you for this page, using Wiki to bunk those emails I get forwarded is very handy. Rekija (talk) 02:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

L-K coincidence poster
There was a famous poster entitled "Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence?", listing the mostly-superficial and occasionally erroneous coincidences. The last poster entry, which I didn't see mentioned in either the Snopes rebuttal or this Wikipedia page, read: "Both Johnsons were opposed for reelection by men whose names start with 'G'." While Barry Goldwater was Lyndon Johnson's opponent in 1964, Andrew Johnson never officially ran against Ulysses Grant in 1868. Andrew's political goose was cooked as soon as he became President, let alone by the time of the 1868 election. So the "Both Johnsons were opposed..." statement is false.

Here's another remote addendum coincidence that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere on the Net. It's a real stretch: Andrew Johnson's successor, Ulysses Grant, was opposed in the 1868 election by HORATIO Seymour. Lyndon Johnson's successor, Richard Nixon, was opposed in the 1968 election by Hubert HORATIO Humphrey. 99.159.193.207 (talk) 18:52, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

WEASEL
Didn't Wikipedia once have a policy against weasel words? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.103.132.38 (talk) 03:23, 16 April 2014 (UTC)


 * No, but it does have a guideline which strongly suggests avoiding them. Please feel free to change any that you find in the article, or identify them for others to change.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 04:08, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Reck": From William H. Crook:  From Lincoln's Ghost:  

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Secretary
"A few of the items [above] are simply untrue; there is no record to show that Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy ..." Wrong; there is no such item. The secretary claim sounds familiar, but it isn't in this article. Art LaPella (talk) 20:40, 29 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Art LaPella (talk) 21:57, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Judgment
The article says

Some of the items above are true, such as the year in which Lincoln and Kennedy were each elected President, but this is not so unusual given that Presidential elections are held only every four years,

This undermines that the elections were exactly 100 years apart. It is therefore a coincidence!

The attempt to undermine this is a judgment because even though elections are every 4 years, the chances of these two guys being elected exactly 100 years apart is the coincidence factor

Montalban (talk) 10:48, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Sure it's a coincidence, but it's still not so unusual, and that's all the article says. Snitch ninja (talk) 05:29, 11 April 2019 (UTC)