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    Lincoln and Kennedy: Redux
    Lincoln and Kennedy: Redux
    Lincoln and Kennedy: Redux
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    Lincoln and Kennedy: Redux

    By G. Darrell Russell Jr.

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    About the Author
    G. Darrell Russell Jr. is a retired judge of the District Court of Maryland. He now practices law at a reduced pace in a small firm in eastern Baltimore County. He lives in Towson, Maryland. Three of his four adult children are nearby. His fourth child, Maureen, resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where she runs marathons like her dad. She obtained her graduate degree from South Alabama. Her brother Brendan also went to Alabama at the Tuscaloosa campus. Roll Tide Roll! Russell’s other two children, Graham and Eileen, served their country in the Navy (SEAL program) and AmeriCorps, respectively. Russell spent early years as a lacrosse, tennis, and cross-country coach at his alma mater, Loyola University in Maryland. He was the first commissioner of the National Lacrosse League. He has authored several books on law and sports, his dual avocations. He is a trustee of his Elks Lodge in Towson.
    Lincoln and Kennedy: Redux was first written by Russell while a law student at the University of Baltimore. It was entitled Lincoln and Kennedy: Looked at Kindly Together. He rewrote it out of nostalgia for the halcyon Kennedy days of Camelot.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDorrance Publishing Company
    Release dateJan 24, 2024
    ISBN9798890277978
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      Lincoln and Kennedy - G. Darrell Russell Jr.

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      The contents of this work, including, but not limited to, the accuracy of events, people, and places depicted; opinions expressed; permission to use previously published materials included; and any advice given or actions advocated are solely the responsibility of the author, who assumes all liability for said work and indemnifies the publisher against any claims stemming from publication of the work.

      All Rights Reserved

      Copyright © 2024 by G. Darrell Russell Jr.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted, downloaded, distributed, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, including photocopying and recording, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented without permission in writing from the publisher.

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      LINCOLN AND KENNEDY: REDUX

      A comparative look at the haunting aura of similarities of the personas and surrounding events affecting two U.S. presidents separated by one hundred years.

      G. Darrell Russell Jr.

      For my children, Eileen, Maureen, Graham, and Brendan, who have all wisely avoided careers in the political, legal, or public arenas.

      Many thanks to my trusted, wise, and ever-patient paralegal, Nicole Warner, who has again suffered through the painful construction, with skilled fingers on the keys, of my latest modest project.

      Previous Books by Author

      Lincoln and Kennedy: Looked at Kindly Together (1972)

      Hotbed for Hybrids: Lacrosse and Soccer in Baltimore (1978)

      Chronicles from Court: In My Own Write (2004)

      Commoner to Royalty: A Judicial Journal (2015)

      Ten Hounds: A Personal Journal (2021)

      Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him. And He will make your paths straight.

      3 Proverbs 5,6

      FOREWORD

      This paper was first produced by a young law student who eventually metamorphosed into a lawyer, who perhaps would have been better served to study court opinions in the law library, as opposed to pursuing a journalistic odyssey. A publisher was found, namely, Carlton Press of New York. And the words became a book entitled Lincoln and Kennedy: Looked at Kindly Together. The book never came close to the New York Times bestseller list. And eventually Carlton Press disappeared as the Ford Motor Company’s Edsel. Over the years, I thought to myself, I would like to resurrect my youthful product and perhaps contemporize it. What you read in these pages is essentially my book, first published in 1973. Indeed, the words have a half century of accumulated dust. I did some tweaking but it’s, alas, the same book.

      Shortly after their deaths, Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy became martyrs and virtual saints in the mind of the public. Later, as tears dried, the essence of the myths could not be cut away. One part of the myth was the actual truth of striking similarities between the two martyrs. Similarities of circumstance, personality, and historical déjà vu. And a further composite of the myth was that both men, though flawed humans, were indisputably good men of a deep faith, with a twinkling eye for humor, and a somber awareness of tragedy. To wit, both lost young sons while living in the White House.

      In addition to having been glorified by apotheosis, both men have been the victims of vilification during their lives and after. For instance, Kennedy was often characterized as a reckless raconteur whose wealthy family bought his elections and apologized for his character flaws. Lincoln was the back woods bumpkin who forced the U.S. into an unnecessary and horrific civil war. I make no pretentious historical judgments here. In the end, neither president lived long enough to fulfill their legacies and do all they wanted to do.

      Indeed, there are striking parallels in the careers of these two assassinated presidents. Among the similarities are their premonitions of their impending deaths, their ignoring their aides’ warnings not to make their fateful trips, their tenacious faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and their irrepressible wit. By way of emphasizing these similarities in chapter one, I employed italics for those parts of the texts which are repeated. That is, the same words are used to emphasize the similarities. It’s almost as if Lincoln lived again in Kennedy - in principle, at any rate. I employed this literary trick to a lesser degree in chapter four.

      I liberally filled the humor chapter with anecdotes, which were part of the persona of each man. They owned their jokes, and the jokes weren’t cheap tales from the street corner or bar room. They were often just spontaneous remarks told with tongue in cheek. I tried to show the deep reservoir of faith of each president without proselytizing or sitting in on their confessionals. Chapter four includes all the surplusage similarities. I hope this still is of interest after the passage of half a century. Again, I am not presenting a historical treatise. And if you seek such, try Wikipedia!

      AMDG

      ONE: MARTYRDOM

      "We do not know very much of the future except that from generation to generation the same things happen again and again." - T.S. Eliot

      "You and I are together in the same fight as you saw me fighting before and, as you will have heard, I am fighting still..." - Philippians 1:30

      The similarities between the tragic ordeals of the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy are extensive and disturbing. The similarities extend to their lives in relation to their deaths. Quite poignant was their haunting awareness of death. You could offer with validity that each followed a preordained plan of destiny which hurled them recklessly to their appointments with their tragic demise. The evidence is strong but might fail as a court proposition. But the coincidences are certainly intriguing.

      The words following relate some of the similarities by way of narratives of Lincoln’s and Kennedy’s last days. Judge, if you wish, why these events repeat themselves. A court might rule that the evidence is all circumstantial. There is scant doubt that the events did repeat themselves. When words are italicized, they are the same in the Lincoln and Kennedy narratives. This is a writer’s device to emphasize the parallels. I’m not really that clever. It’s a simple evidentiary ploy to support the premise.

      I may seem unduly critical of Richmond and Dallas and the South generally. This is by no means intentional. But it is a factual part of the dual accidents of fate. Lincoln and Kennedy could have been killed in Baltimore, Atlanta, or Memphis, each of which harbored pockets of antagonism. There could have been snipers in

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