Even More Unusual

Lincoln/Kennedy Connections

  Booth's brother once saved Lincoln's son's life:  Another strange karmic connection having to do with President Lincoln is the fact that Edwin Booth (John Wilkes' brother) once saved the life of Robert Lincoln (the President's son) on a train platform in Jersey City at the beginning of the Civil War. Because of this, Edwin Booth was invited to give a command performance in the White House and forever after was a Lincoln sympathizer, even though he had been raised in the South.

Abraham Lincoln's son was invited to the assassinations of three U.S. Presidents: The night that his father was shot, Robert Lincoln was invited to accompany his parents to the theater. He declined. When President Garfield was shot in a Washington, D.C. train station in 1881, he was present at Garfield's invitation. When President William McKinley was shot in 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, Lincoln was present at McKinley's invitation. Although Robert Lincoln was not an actual eyewitness to any of these assassinations, after McKinley's death, Lincoln let it be known that he wanted no further invitations from any US president. Three presidents had unknowingly invited him to be present at their assassinations. Interestingly enough, Robert Lincoln would not have been able to attend these events had not the brother of John Wilkes Booth saved his life years earlier.

  An amazing astrological connection between Lincoln and Kennedy:  A 20-year cycle of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction results in a presidential assassination or a presidential death while in office including presidents Lincoln and Kennedy. Read more about it here.

  Could there also be an astrological connection between the birth and death charts of Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy?: Compare their birth and death charts here. Professional astrologers are encouraged to contribute to this project by emailing to me their findings concerning the comparison of these charts.

  The NDE of Tenskwatawa and the "Curse of Tecumseh" upon American presidents, supposedly led to the "Presidential Death Cycle":  Legend has it that the so-called "Presidential Death Cycle" was the result of a prophecy given by a Shawnee Indian chieftan named Tecumseh who worked with his brother Tenskwatawa to unite other Indian tribes to oppose white expansion into the west in the early 1800s. In the winter of 1804-5, drunkenness and disease were rampant in the Shawnee village; but a vision given to Tenskwatwa during an apparent NDE led him on a crusade to reverse the growing erosion of Indian culture and the negative effects of white expansion.

In April 1805, Tenskwatawa was smoking his pipe when he passed out as if dead. His family believed that he had died, so they prepared his body for a funeral. But he regained consciousness and claimed that the "Master of Life," the Shawnee Indians' primary god, had granted him a glimpse of heaven and hell where he witnessed the cruel sufferings of people atoning for their wrongs and their drunkenness. According to Tenskwatawa, the Master of Life told him that the Indians must give up all white customs, products, and alcohol; and if they did not change their ways, the Master of Life would not allow them into heaven. If they would return to their traditional ways, they would be rewarded by driving the white settlers from the Indians' land and allow the natives to go to heaven. Native Americans must also stop fighting with each other over land and respect their tribal elders. If they followed the Master of Life's message, the natives would return to a life filled with happiness. Because of Tenskwatawa vision, whites nicknamed him "the Prophet" and named his settlement "Prophetstown." His fame grew even more in 1806 when he predicted an eclipse of the sun.

By 1811, such a large number of natives lived at Prophetstown that white settlers in Ohio and the Indiana Territory demanded that the government do something to protect them. U.S. troops, led by future president General William Harrison, defeated Tenskwatawa and his confederation of warriors at the Battle of Tippecanoe. William Harrison used his popularity as a successful Indian fighter to run for president of the United States. His campaign slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"

After the historical battle, legend has it that Tecumseh sent General Harrison a message containing a prophecy which came to be known as "Tecumseh's Curse":

While there is no proof that Tenskwatawa ever said this, the prophecy proved true. William Harrison won the presidency for his heroism in defeating Tecumseh's forces in battle. But Harrison's presidency never had a chance. He delivered a very long inaugural address on a cold, windy day; then he got caught in a rainstorm. President Harrison caught a cold and died. He served as president from March 4 - April 4, 1841. His death was seen as the first in a long series of presidential death's due to Tecumseh's Curse: Presidents elected in a year ending in a zero would die in office. Thus the "Curse of Tecumseh" became a part of popular American folklore.

  A 1951 movie about the Lincoln assassination had a lead character named John Kennedy:  Another strange connection comes from the 1951 movie called "The Tall Target." It is about a New York City detective foiling a plot to assassinate President-elect Lincoln. The detective's name is John Kennedy. "The Tall Target" is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was able to assume his duties in Washington. Dick Powell stars as New York detective John Kennedy, who learns of the assassination plot early on. When his superiors refuse to believe his wild tale, Kennedy quits the force and boards the Presidential train, hoping to prevent the killing on his own. The problem: who can he trust on board, and who can't be trusted? The sister of the would-be assassin, might be able to prevent the tragedy -- if she isn't in on the conspiracy, that is. The film's nail-biting climax is brilliantly handled by Anthony Mann, whose directorial expertise was becoming sharper with each successive film in the early 1950s..

  A numerology connection exists between Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy:  Students of numerology would be interested to see the chart below: