I Think This Should Help Explain Things.
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12, 1809. Same day. Same year.
Darwin sailed on the HMS Beagle when he compiled his evidence for evolution. An anagram of “beagle” is “Abe leg.”
Abraham Lincoln had long legs. A woman once asked Lincoln just how long his legs were. He said, “Long enough to reach the ground.”
Both Lincoln and Darwin died in the month of April. Darwin died on April 19, 1882, and Lincoln on April 15, 1856, or as the Romans would call it, “the Ides of April.” Lincoln had been shot the previous day in Ford’s Theater by an actor named John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth came from a family of actors, with his father Junius Brutus Booth being the most famous actor of the bunch.
The elder Booth was named for Marcus Junius Brutus, a Roman politician who assassinated Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BC and then died in a civil war fighting Caesar’s adopted heir. Marcus Junius Brutus is widely believed to have said “Sic semper tyrannus”—Latin for “thus always to tyrants”—after stabbing Caesar. There are no ancient sources to suggest this was the case, but it was widely believed in the early years of the United States and “Sic Semper Tyrannus” became Virginia’s state motto.
When John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater near the Ides of April, he jumped onto the stage and shouted “Sic semper tyrannus!” This may have been done in honor of his late father.
Almost one hundred years after Lincoln’s death, another U.S. President took an assassin’s bullet (or three?) to the head. John F. Kennedy was not at Ford’s Theater. He was riding in a Lincoln Continental—a car made by the Ford Motor Company and named for Abraham Lincoln.
It might seem odd that a company owned by the famously racist Henry Ford would name a car after the Great Emancipator, but the Lincoln Motor Company was started by Henry Leland in 1917 before Ford bought it in 1922.
Below is a picture of President Gerald Ford, right after Squeaky Fromme shot him. He lived. As a teenager, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme was a member of the Westchester Lariats, a dance group that performed on The Lawrence Welk Show and at the White House back when Richard Nixon was Eisenhower’s Vice President. Decades later, Gerald Ford became President when Nixon resigned. He had become Nixon’s Vice President when Spiro Agnew resigned. Ford was never elected to either position. An anagram of “Spiro Agnew” is “Gains Power.”
I think this should help explain things.