by Mike Purdy | Aug 4, 2014 | Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt
Here’s a collage of Presidents pointing and staring at their audience. Who do you think does it best? Top left to right: Carter, Obama, JohnsonMiddle left to right: Reagan, Uncle Sam, Theodore RooseveltBottom left to right: George W. Bush, Kennedy,...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 22, 2013 | Assassinations, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson
November 22, 2013 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the fourth president to die from a bullet. For those of us old enough to remember November 22, 1963, that day and the events of that day don’t really seem that...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 28, 2013 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Deaths, John F. Kennedy
Both Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy had premonitions prior to their deaths of dying by an assassin’s bullet.Lincoln: According to an account published by Lincoln’s former law partner, Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln apparently told the following...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 26, 2011 | John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
Almost 40 years ago, on November 27, 1963, just days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the new president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, stood before a Joint Session of Congress to talk about the tragedy that had struck the nation, and to set the tone for...
by Mike Purdy | Aug 17, 2011 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Franklin Roosevelt, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley
For more than 100 years, starting with the 1840 presidential election, every president elected in 20 year increments (1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, and 1960) died in office. Curse Broken: Only with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was the curse...