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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] A history lesson

From: Don Tillman <don@...>
Date: 2003-10-10

> From: kinchmusic@...
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:02:42 EDT
>
> I don't normally share stuff I receive from time to time but this
> was just to good to ignore and pass on to our friends in the good
> old USofA. If you've seen it before I apologise, but it's new to
> me and thought provoking.....

This has been around for a very long time.

Snopes, the urban legends site, covers it here:
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm

> >And here's the kicker . . . . .
> >
> >A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
> >A week before Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe.

According to Yahoo maps, there is no Monroe, Maryland.
And according to the Snopes site, Marilyn Monroe died over a
year before Kennedy was killed.

> >Creepy, huh? Send this to as many people as you can, cause:

Any document that asks you to send it to as many people as you can is
surely suspect.

-- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don@...
http://www.till.com