Lincoln Vs. Kennedy

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Late presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln are always in the

top ten of America’s favorite presidents. So what was the reason for their assassination?

Maybe society today does not have knowledge enough about the two late presidents to

judge them on how great they actually were. Is Lincoln really the “Great Emancipator”,

was Kennedy really out to be the best he could be, or is that a big hoax to cover for

America’s late presidents? After all, the president of the United States is supposed to

represent our country, their ability to make decisions, and our belief of right and wrong.

Is there really a good reason Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated or was it really a

freak accident that was soon regretted by the assassins?

On February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County Kentucky.

He later moved to Decatur Illinois. In contrast, John F. Kennedy was born on May 29,

1917 in Brookline Massachusetts. Lincoln went on to Princeton for his studies, married

at 33 to a girl of his age, ran for Legislature and won. Yet, Kennedy went to Harvard for

his studies, joined the Navy upon graduation, and married at 36 to a girl of only 24. Both

late presidents had children, but while Lincoln was a strict professional father, Kennedy

was the high class laid back dad. Lincoln, in personality, was an upstanding, never

unprofessional man, who only wanted to be taken seriously for his decisions. Kennedy,

on the other hand, wanted nothing more than to be the friendly man of the people, who

wanted to make decisions based on public opinion. During the Lincoln presidential

debates, Lincoln was the “truth teller”, but little does the United States citizens know that

in the slave supporter states Lincoln agreed with slavery and said he would never

believe that the white were equal or insuperior to any other race. In states that disagreed

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