World history has known many legends and stories about the curses of kings and high nobility. It is interesting that in the history of the United States there is also a presidential one. It is called Tecumseh's curse after the man who cursed American presidents. He was the leader of the Shawnee Indian tribe.
This originally large tribe lived in the territories of the modern American states of Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. After the arrival of white settlers, the Shawnees were forced into the territories of Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas. This Indian tribe had to migrate a lot earlier due to attacks by the Iroquois.
Now the descendants of those Shawnee live mainly in Oklahoma. It is difficult to accurately calculate their numbers, since the Indians not only live in their own communities, but also assimilate, often marrying white Americans. According to various estimates, the Shawnee population in the United States now ranges from 6 to 14 thousand.
Tecumseh's Curse
The legendary leader Tecumseh tried to resist the expansion of Europeans. To do this, he wanted to unite different Indian tribes in the fight for their ancestral territories. Together with him, his brother Tenskwatawa fought the war against the whites. Tecumseh is known as a man of unparalleled courage. He took part in the Civil War of 1812. He fought on the side of the British against the Americans.
Tecumseh was killed in hand-to-hand combat in 1813, on October 5th. Before his death, he cursed the “leaders” (presidents) of the white invaders for violating the treaty. The curse was that every American president up to the seventh generation would die before the end of his presidential term. The condition of the curse was the date of election to the post. It had to be divisible by 20 without a remainder.
7 knees
1. In the beliefs of the Indians, a lot of importance was attached to numbers and various patterns. Unusually, Tecumseh's curse actually came true. The "First Tribe" was William Henry Harrison. He did not immediately become president. Initially, he exercised the powers of governor, and was elected to this post in 1840 (divided by 20 without a remainder).
Harrison, according to the treaty of 1809 (signed in Fort Wayne), actually took more than 12 thousand square meters from the indigenous population of America. km of his ancestral lands. A year after being elected governor, he became president, but he did not sit in this chair for long - only a month. It was with him that Tecumseh's curse began to come true.
2. Abraham Lincoln became the second generation. The Americans elected him to the presidency in the unhappy 1860s. Lincoln managed to be re-elected to a second term (1864), but could not escape the curse of the Indian chief. He was shot in the head in 1965
3. The third generation was President James Garfield. His citizens elected him in the equally unlucky year of 1880. Garfield managed to serve as president for just over a year, after which he was overtaken by a bullet. The wound was not fatal, but the president had incompetent doctors at his disposal. As a result of their barbaric treatment (they literally dug into Garfield's wound with dirty fingers to get a bullet), the president died in a fever 3 months later.
4. The fourth generation was also condemned to death by a curse, William McKinley. In 1900, he was re-elected to a second term, after which the curse of the Indian leader began to take effect. In 1901, an attempt was made on his life. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz's bullet lodged in the president's back. They tried to save the man, but the wound began to fester. McKinley died of gangrene in terrible agony. This happened a few weeks after the injury.
5. Warren Harding became the fifth generation. He was elected to the highest post in 1920. This American president died under unclear circumstances (probably from a heart attack or stroke) 3 years after his inauguration.
6. The sixth and luckiest was Franklin Roosevelt. He was re-elected president several times. This happened once in the “bad” year of 1940. Despite his luck, Roosevelt did not escape the fate of the victim of Tecumseh's curse. He died of apoplexy during his fourth re-election to the presidency (1944).
7. The last, seventh generation was John Kennedy, who, by coincidence, was elected to his post in 1960. The story of his murder, which occurred in 1963, is widely known. After Kennedy, the Shawnee chief's curse ceased to apply. It carried out its dirty work for more than 1.5 centuries. According to legend, his strength was only enough for 7 tribes.
The next president is Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980. A year after the inauguration, he was also wounded, and very seriously. The bullet hit my lung. But either the curse stopped working, or medicine became better, and yet Reagan managed to survive. Subsequent US presidents also often avoided death, although they had every chance of dying. So Tecumseh’s curse was valid even with all the conventions observed.
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Gabaraeva E.
There are such frightening patterns in history that, willy-nilly, you begin to believe in the supernatural. In the history of the United States, such a phenomenon was Tecumseh’s curse, which invariably came true for a long time. According to legend, the curse was imposed by the leader of the Shawnee Indian tribe, Tecumseh (Flying Arrow).
The curse dates back to 1811, when there was a conflict between Indiana Governor William Henry Harrison and a Native American tribe over land issues. The authorities offered the Shawnee a ransom, but the tribe did not agree and this escalated into a conflict known as Tecumseh's War. Chief Tecumseh and his younger brother Tenskwatawa organized a group to resist white expansion westward, the so-called Indian Confederacy. In 1811, Harrison's detachment moved to the Tippecanoe River, where warriors from several Indian tribes had already been gathered. This battle was the climax of Tecumseh's War, the end of which split the Indian confederacy. After the defeat, the confederation was no longer able to restore its former power and unity. After the defeat, Tecumseh tried to play on the contradictions between the Americans and the British and entered into an alliance with the British in the Anglo-American War. In one of the battles of this war, the Indian leader died. This happened on October 5, 1813 at the Battle of the River Thames.
According to legend, when dying, the great Tecumseh uttered a curse, which was that every president elected in a year ending with the number “0” and divisible by 20 would die before completing his presidential term.
The first victim of the curse was none other than William Henry Harrison , who at one time “annoyed” the leader in his role as governor of Indiana. Having become president in 1840, while delivering his inaugural speech on March 4, 1841, the newly-minted head of the United States caught a cold and died exactly a month later, on April 4, 1841. Thus began a mysterious chain of unexplained deaths that began to be attributed to the ancient Indian curse of Tecumseh.
According to legend, the next victim was to be Abraham Lincoln , elected in 1860. And so it happened: the President was shot and killed in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater.
In 1880 he was elected James Garfield. He was also not destined to live to the end of his presidential term. Garfield's presidency lasted six months and ended with his tragic death. On July 20, 1881, he was seriously wounded by Charles Guiteau at the Washington train station and died on September 19, 1881, according to one version due to poor treatment.
At the end of 1896 he was elected to the post of president, and in 1900 he was re-elected William McKinley . On September 5, 1901, the spirit of the curse reached this head of state. McKinley was wounded by the American anarchist Leon Frank Czolgosz. Two shots were fired: the first bullet bounced off the button of the president’s tuxedo and did not harm him, but the second hit him in the stomach, damaging internal organs and back muscles. The President was not destined to survive: the wound became infected. Despite timely medical treatment and initial improvement, the 25th President of the United States died on September 14, 1901.
Warren Harding in 1920 he became the 29th president. His presidency was accompanied by many scandals. The cause of this president's death has never been established. On August 2, 1923, he was found dead in a hotel in San Francisco, where he was staying with his wife to improve his health. Initially, the cause of death was called a stroke, but the fact that the president’s wife forbade an autopsy and the president’s embalming was carried out right in the hotel gave rise to many rumors. New data has now emerged. According to Harding's personal physician, the president suffered from kidney disease, and death could have been caused by a drug overdose.
The sixth “victim of the curse” was Franklin Roosevelt , elected in 1932 and re-elected in 1940 and 1944. He died in 1945 from a cerebral hemorrhage, but, despite the president’s long-term illness, his death also came as a surprise to the public. It is still shrouded in legends and rumors.
Assassination of the Young President John Kennedy , elected in 1960, became another link in the legend of Tecumseh’s curse. On November 22, 1963, he was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on suspicion of murder. This murder is perhaps the most mysterious in the history of America.
There is a “seventh generation” theory, the essence of which is that the curse weakens after the death of the seventh victim. The eighth victim of Tecumseh's curse was Ronald Reagan, who won the 1980 election and survived an assassination attempt in 1981, and the wound he received (a lung was hit) was considered fatal at that time.
George W. Bush, elected in 2000, was the next president to break the pattern. In 2005, an attempt was made on the president's life, but it was unsuccessful. Proponents of the "seventh generation" idea said that the curse had weakened or even lost its power.
Of course, in our world, where a practical and scientific explanation can be found for everything, many can say that there was no Tecumseh curse and all this is just an ominous coincidence. But are there too many coincidences?
The US presidential elections scheduled for November may give the world the name of the next victim of Tecumseh's curse.
There has been nothing more interesting for Americans these past few months than to wonder who the next President of the United States will be. Candidates are competing intensely on campaign promises and luring potential voters with colorful pictures of a bright future.
Gradually the future is becoming more and more clear. It is still unclear what will happen to the country, but the circle of potential presidents has almost definitely come down to two people. One of these two people will become the President of the United States for the next four years, and after these same four years he will be forced to congratulate the 46th President of the United States on his election to such a responsible post. The same president who will be destined to once again experience Tecumseh’s curse. Moreover, this will be the anniversary - the tenth President of the United States, who risks experiencing the full power of ancient Indian magic.
The history of the United States is the history of westward expansion. While still being British colonies, the very first states entered into an agreement with the Indians on the non-advancement of the colonies to the west and broke it without hesitation. This glorious tradition was continued more than once in later times, until a white man set foot on the beach of the west coast of North America, and the Indians finally found themselves on reservations.
But long before this, on October 5, 1813, a Shawnee chief named Tecumseh, before his death, cursed the American state, predicting that no US president elected to office in a year divisible by 20 would survive to the end of his presidential term.
In principle, the whites didn’t even laugh much. In those days, everyone knew for sure that the Indians had access to magic, and Tecumseh was far from an ordinary Indian. Either his knowledge of the dark arts was strong, or the collective belief in the power of the curse imprinted the information into the Earth's infosphere, but it worked.
The first victim was William Henry Harrison, who was elected president in 1840. Pneumonia. For the mid-19th century, this was an extremely serious disease... This was the first US president to end his life as head of state. Harrison still holds the record for the shortest presidency, ruling the United States for 30 days and a few hours.
Twenty years have passed. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected to the post of head of the United States, becoming one of the most famous presidents of the United States. He sat happily in the presidential chair for the entire first term, breathed a sigh of relief and was re-elected for the second. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated while watching a theater play.
The winner of the 1880 presidential race, James Garfield, served as president three times longer than Harrison. The Indian curse almost failed; Charles Guiteau's bullet missed vital organs. However, American doctors got down to business and completed the work of the terrorist-mug.
William McKinley won re-election in 1900, becoming the first American president of the 20th century and the fourth victim of Tecumseh's curse. Modern medicine would have saved him, but in 1901 doctors were unable to protect the wounded McKinley from a wound infection.
Warren Harding was just over a year short of finishing his presidential term. The President of the United States elected in 1920 had an unsuccessful trip to Alaska. Indigestion, pneumonia, heart problems. No crime, just bad health. The Indians completely agree with this version.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 32nd President of the United States. The man who pulled the United States out of the Great Depression by the ears and led the country during World War II. He was elected president in 1940, which gives grounds to count him among the victims of Tecumseh’s curse, but Roosevelt simply burned out at work, giving his life for the good of the United States.
The seventh victim of the Indian curse was John Kennedy, who won the 1960 election. Driving around Dallas in an open car was not in vain for him. Lee Harvey Oswald was named the official culprit of the tragedy. The Indians tacitly accepted the results of the investigation.
150 years after his birth, Tecumseh's curse began to weaken. Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980, survived the assassination attempt. A fortunate combination of circumstances and much stronger medicine than in the 19th century allowed Reagan to remain at the helm. George W. Bush, elected in 2000, also survived. The pretzel idea was good, but Bush didn't pull it off.
There is no exact record of the curse, so there are several explanations for these misfires. There is an opinion that the curse is valid only up to the seventh generation. They say that American presidents have already atoned for the treachery of their ancestors. But perhaps the curse has simply weakened, gained strength on Bush Jr., and the US President elected in 2020 will have to experience it himself.
American presidents are often elected to a second term, and perhaps in November we will find out who will be the next victim of Tecumseh's curse.
1. BLOODY MASSACRE WITH THE LEADER
As you know, the birth of the United States was accompanied by much bloodletting. With the naive leaders of the Indian tribes who believed this word, the pale-faces entered into agreements on peace and good neighborliness, and then grossly broke their promises. The invaders more than once cleverly exploited intertribal contradictions, pitting clans against each other, and then destroyed both of them. The colonialists did not disdain using the dirtiest means. Sometimes the colonialists deliberately caused smallpox epidemics among the local population in order to instill fear and horror in them of the conquerors.
A certain General Jeffrey Amherst frankly wrote to his friend: “It will be very good if we can infect all the Indians with smallpox. Any other method will also be good if it leads to the destruction of this disgusting race. I would be very glad if your project of equipping them to hunt with the participation of dogs brought results."
Tecumseh
Two brothers from the Shawnee tribe - Tecumseh (Falling Star) and Tenskwatawa (Open Door) - made a last attempt to unite the Indian tribes in the fight against the colonialists. Tecumseh was well aware of the whites' desire to destroy the indigenous people of America. And he also understood that the fragmentation of tribes gives white people a serious advantage. He became the first who seriously intended to unite the warring clans in the fight against the invaders. Tecumseh was able to unite people from thirty-two communities. It was thanks to his efforts that the Confederacy of Tribes was born with a territory that was an order of magnitude larger than the then size of the United States. US authorities tried their best to prevent the creation of the Confederacy. After all, its leaders refused to recognize the famous Treaty of Fort Wayne, concluded with Indian leaders in 1809. The deal was treacherously arranged by General Henry Harrison, the governor of Indiana and the future president of the United States. Indian leaders, before signing an agreement on transferring 3 million acres of their lands to the States, were given “fire water” to drink. But the Indians kept their word, and as a result, many tribes had to leave their ancestral homeland forever.
General William Henry Harrison
Tecumseh tried to convince the US authorities to abandon the treaty concluded in such a vile way. The fateful meeting of American authorities and Indian leaders took place in August 1810. But Harrison refused to annul the treaty and even advised Tecumseh to mind his own business: after all, the treaty did not affect the interests of the Shawnee people. The Confederacy, according to the governor, was not a community recognized by the United States, and therefore each tribe was asked to speak with American authorities separately.
Tecumseh warned that if the treaty was not annulled, the Confederacy of Tribes would enter into an alliance with Great Britain. Harrison just grinned: whites and redskins under a single flag - this is unrealistic.
A random coincidence of circumstances - the appearance of the Great Comet in the sky - was perceived by the tribes that did not join the alliance as a sign. It seemed that nature itself supported the leader’s initiatives. In December 1811, southern North America was rocked by the New Madrid earthquake. The Indian tribes heard the voice of the gods in him and rebelled.
General Brock, commander of the British troops in Canada, was a man of honor and immediately appreciated the leadership talents of the Indian leader. In one of his letters, Brock wrote: “The Shawnee leader Tecumseh made a deep impression on me. A more intelligent and far-sighted, more valiant warrior, in my opinion, cannot exist. He is admired by everyone who talked with him.”
General Brock
Recognizing the fair arguments of the Redskins, Britain committed an unprecedented act - it entered into a military alliance with the Indians and declared war on the United States. The combined forces easily won one battle after another. It seemed that there was only one last step left until victory. One more decisive battle - and a new power will appear on the world map - an independent Indian state. But an accidental shot made some adjustments to this story: in the next battle, Brock died.
The British troops were led by General Procter, whose military skills could not be compared with the talents of the deceased commander. No matter how Tecumseh insisted on more decisive actions, no matter what roundabout maneuvers he took, it was all in vain. The overly cautious general began to retreat into the depths of Canada, giving the previously conquered lands to the Americans. When Detroit was left behind and there was nowhere to retreat, Tecumseh managed to insist on holding the last battle.
On October 5, 1813, a decisive battle took place on the Thames River in Connecticut. In the midst of the battle, unexpectedly not only for the Indians, but also for the colonists, the cowardly General Procter suddenly withdrew his troops. The outcome of the battle was a foregone conclusion: the Indians lost, and their leader, according to the official version of the American authorities, died in battle and was buried with full honors.
However, the testimony of Captain George Sanderson has been preserved, claiming that the leader was brutally executed: “... It was precisely the body of Tecumseh, from whom the skin was torn off - I have no doubt. I knew him... He was a man of powerful physique, physically very strong , he was about 6 feet 2 inches in height. I saw his body on the battlefield of the Thames before it went cold. I saw a Kentucky war party at the very moment when they flayed the chief."
Sat-Ok, the great-great-grandson of Tecumseh, would write in his book many years later: “The great uprising of the Algonquin tribes was defeated. Tecumseh went unarmed to the camp to negotiate the rescue of women, old people and children. The whites, although they solemnly guaranteed his personal integrity, betrayed him They captured him, killed him, tore off his skin, and from it the American soldiers made belts for straightening razors..."
Even William Harrison, who so cynically dealt with Tecumseh and his people, later wrote the following in his memoirs: “If it had not been for his proximity to the United States, he (Tecumseh) would very likely have become the founder of an Empire that rivaled Mexico or Peru in glory. But the difficulties prevented him. For 4 years Tecumseh was in constant motion. Today you see him in Wabah, in a short time you hear that he is on the banks of Lake Erie, or Michigan, or on the banks of the Mississippi, and wherever he appeared, he produced a favorable impression in your favor..."
There are several versions of the Indian curse on American presidents. According to one of them, this curse belongs to Tecumseh himself. According to another, Tenskwatawa, the leader’s brother, allegedly placed a curse on Harrison and other American presidents while already living on the reservation. Tenskwatawa allegedly said these words: "Harrison will not win this year and become Great Chief. He may win next time. If that happens, he will not finish his term. He will die in office. No president has ever died in office. But I tell you that Harrison will die. And then you will remember the death of my brother Tecumseh. You thought that I had lost my power. I who made the Sun darken and took away the fire water from the Red Men. But I tell you that Harrison will die. And after him, all the Great Leaders, elected every 20 years, will die. And when each subsequent one dies, let everyone remember the death of our people "...
Tenskwatawa
2. THE CURSE OF THE INDIANS WAS ACTIVE FOR 140 YEARS?!..
Surprisingly, the curse of the Indians began to operate in 1840. And every US president elected every next 20 years had tragic consequences in his life. And this went on for 140 years, until 1980. From the first to the seventh generation...
First generation - William Henry Harrison, elected 1840, died a month after inauguration.
Second generation - Abraham Lincoln, elected 1860, re-elected 1864, assassinated 1865.
Third generation - James Garfield, elected 1880, assassinated 1881.
Fourth Tribe - William McKinley, re-elected 1900, assassinated 1901.
Fifth generation - Warren Harding, elected 1920, died 1923.
Sixth generation - Franklin Roosevelt, re-elected in 1940 and 1944, died in 1945.
Seventh generation - John Kennedy, elected in 1960, assassinated in 1963.
After the end of hostilities, Harrison retired. Soon the general, who had not previously thought about such a high position, entered the fight for the presidency in 1836. But that time he was defeated. The first part of the prediction came true. But Harrison decided not to retreat. In the elections of 1840, the Whigs again nominated him as their candidate. This time Harrison won. However, now, instead of joy, the general was overcome by anxiety: the shaman’s prophecy continued to come true. However, it was too late to retreat, and Harrison headed to Washington. Friends later recalled that during farewell, the general suddenly became gloomy and said: “Perhaps this is our last meeting.” March 4, 1841, the day the new president was inaugurated, turned out to be extremely cold and windy. The 68-year-old general decided not to deviate from the plan and appeared before the public in a spectacular ceremonial uniform, too light for inclement weather. Standing in the bitter wind, the new president read his inaugural address for nearly two hours, the longest in US history. Towards the end of the ceremony, to top it all off, it started pouring rain. Not surprisingly, Harrison came down with a high fever that same day. The doctors were powerless - exactly a month later the new president passed away. William Henry Harrison, who had so annoyed the Indians in his time, became the first victim of the Indian curse.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th President of the United States. The assassination of A. Lincoln occurred on April 14, 1865 - five days after the end of the American Civil War, on Good Friday. At Ford's Theater, at the play "Our American Cousin", the Southerner-supporting actor John Wilkes Booth entered the President's box and, during the funniest scene of the comedy, shot the President with the expectation that the sound of the shot would be drowned out by an explosion of laughter. In the ensuing chaos, Booth managed to escape. The next morning, Abraham Lincoln died without regaining consciousness. 12 days later, on April 26, 1865, Booth was overtaken by police in Virginia in a barn. The barn was set on fire, Booth came out and at that moment was mortally wounded in the neck by Boston Corbett. The last words John Booth spoke were: "Tell my mother that I died fighting for my country."
Abraham Lincoln
In the fall of 1880, James Hartfield became the 20th President of the United States. Six months later, on July 2, 1881, when the president was at the train station in Washington, he was shot in the back with a revolver. "Oh my God! What is this?" - was all the president had time to exclaim before he was put on a stretcher to be sent to the hospital. James Hartfield died September 19, 1881. Charles Guiteau, a mentally unstable man who unsuccessfully sought a position as ambassador to France, stated at the trial that he attempted to assassinate the president, but did not kill him, and that the cause of Garfield’s death was poor treatment. The court did not agree with Guiteau's arguments, and he was hanged in 1882. However, modern doctors who have studied Garfield's medical history believe that there was a considerable amount of truth in Guiteau's words. The president's wound was initially shallow and the bullet lodged in a location not close to any vital organs. Meanwhile, the doctors, digging into the wound with their fingers without any gloves or disinfection, significantly deepened the wound (they continued to look for a bullet in the false wound channel that penetrated the liver) and caused severe purulent inflammation, from which the heart could not stand it. The immediate cause of the president's death was a heart attack.
James Garfield
In November 1900, William McKinley became the next president of the United States. On the morning of September 6, 1901, the McKinleys visited Niagara Falls and then went to the Exposition to attend a public reception that afternoon in Buffalo, New York, where the Pan-American Trade and Industrial Exposition was being held. George Cortelho, the president's secretary, tried to dissuade his boss from visiting, but he replied, “Why? Nobody wishes me harm.” At three o'clock in the afternoon, McKinley, accompanied by the secretary and director of the exhibition, arrived at the Temple of Music pavilion, where the reception was to take place. That day, along with Secret Service officers, Buffalo detectives and eleven soldiers were present at the reception. McKinley, flanked by Milburn and Cortelho, greeted a long line of visitors. A certain Czolgosz, the future assassin of the president, also stood in this line. About ten minutes after the greetings began, finding himself face to face with the president, Czolgosz managed to shoot him twice. The black waiter standing behind Czolgosz hit the killer with his fist. Then Secret Service officers George Foster and Albert Gallagher rushed to disarm Czolgosz. An ambulance soon arrived and took the president to a hospital on the exhibition grounds. One bullet missed and did not cause serious injury, but the other hit the abdomen and passed through internal organs, including the stomach, pancreas and kidney, before lodged in the back muscles. Doctors were unable to remove the second bullet. The President, unconscious due to the ether used as an anesthetic, was transported to the home of Governor John Milburn. On Saturday, September 7, McKinley was feeling well, calm and alert. The doctors allowed the wife to visit the patient. Later, from September 12, the president’s condition began to deteriorate. He complained of nausea and headache, his pulse quickened and became weaker. The President was prescribed adrenaline and oxygen to stabilize his pulse. McKinley suddenly said to the doctors: “It’s no use, gentlemen, I think we should call the priest.” On September 14, 1901, the president died in the presence of ministers and senators from gangrene of internal organs at the site of the wound. His last words were the first lines of the hymn “Closer, Lord, to Thee.”
William McKinley
The 29th President of the United States, Warren Harding, was elected on his birthday, November 2, 1920. In 1923 he toured the country. After returning from Alaska, President Harding began to complain of stomach cramps and indigestion. On the advice of doctors, he interrupted his voyage around the country and stopped in San Francisco to improve his health. There, in an apartment on the eighth floor of the Palis Hotel, he became worse. On July 30, his temperature rose to 39° and right-sided pneumonia was discovered. On the evening of August 2, 1923, Florence read to her husband an article about him published in the Evening Post, entitled “A Serious Opinion from a Serious Man.” Suddenly, at half past eight, the president began to have convulsions. Soon the doctors appeared, but it was too late. The President has died. He was 57 years old. Presumably the cause of death was considered to be a heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage. After the wife forbade the autopsy of the body and did not even allow her husband’s death mask to be removed, rumors spread throughout the country about the first lady’s involvement in the death of her husband. In 1930, a certain Gaston B. Means even published a sensational book called "The Surprising Death of President Harding." In it, he suggested that Harding was poisoned by his wife after learning about his love affairs. There were other speculations. For example, that the president committed suicide because he learned that a scandal was brewing in which he was involved. The president's friend, Attorney General Harry Dougherty, was also accused of allegedly killing Harding.
Warren Harding
Franklin Roosevelt - 32nd President of the United States. He was first elected in November 1932. Then he was re-elected for three more terms - in November 1936, November 1940 and November 1944: He died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on 04/12/1945 at his residence "Teplye Klyuchi". President F.D. Roosevelt died completely unexpectedly. Here's how the American media wrote about his death:
"The mail on April 12 was late. FDR (short for Franklin Delano Roosevelt) was chatting serenely with Lucy Mercer. B. Hassett asked the President whether he would sign the papers in the morning or put it off until the afternoon.
No, give them here, Bill... - Roosevelt signed with a flourish - Well, here it is, a typical State Department document. Nothing!..
At about one o'clock in the afternoon, B. Hassett left, leaving several documents that Roosevelt wanted to read. Roosevelt set to work on the stamps. He examined the Japanese stamps issued for the occupied Philippines and sorted them. Called Washington, reminding Postmaster General F. Walker of his promise to send samples of the new issue of American stamps in connection with the conference in San Francisco. The President was in a great mood. Elizaveta Shumatova came in to continue working on the portrait. Shumatova set up an easel. The soft rays of the early summer sun in these parts illuminated the room, the reflections from the glass panels casting a quaint light. Roosevelt was immersed in reading, the artist worked calmly. Sitting by the window on the couch opposite was Lucy, Roosevelt's niece Suckley. Another niece, Delano, stepped softly and filled vases with flowers. They brought in a table for lunch. Roosevelt, without raising his eyes from his papers, said to Shumatova:
We have fifteen minutes left
She nodded and continued writing. A professional artist later claimed that Roosevelt looked amazingly good. He lit a cigarette and took a drag. Suddenly he rubbed his forehead, then his neck. The head bowed. Roosevelt turned pale and said:
I have a terrible headache...
Those were his last words. He lost consciousness and died two hours later..."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
On Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, the presidential motorcade entered the Dealey Plaza area of Dallas and then turned onto Houston Street. At this point, the governor's wife, Nellie Connally, turned to John Kennedy and said, "Mr. President, you must agree that Dallas loves you," to which Kennedy replied, "Of course." After the limousine passed the school book depository, shots rang out at exactly 12:30 p.m. Most witnesses say they heard three shots, although some witnesses said five or six shots were fired. The first bullet, according to the official version, hit John Kennedy in the back, passed through and exited through the neck, also wounding Governor John Connally, who was sitting in front of him, in the back and wrist. At the same time, while testifying to the Warren Commission, Connally said that he was sure that he was wounded by a second shot, which he did not hear. Five seconds later a second shot was fired. The bullet struck Kennedy in the head, creating a fist-sized exit hole in the right side of his head, so that parts of the interior were splattered with brain fragments. Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Hospital, where he died at 1 p.m.
Recently in the United States, at the age of 90, the last “keeper” of the secrets of D. Kennedy’s death, a certain Nicholas Katzenbach, a famous political figure who worked as an adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, recently died. According to American media reports, N. Katzenbach played a mysterious role in the investigation into the assassination of President J. Kennedy. Just three days after the death of the head of state, ahead of the official investigation, N. Katzenbach, then acting US Attorney General, sent a note to Presidential Assistant Bill Moyers at the White House.
“The people must be satisfied that Oswald is the killer, that he has no accomplices who remain at large, and that the existing evidence is sufficient to convict him. Speculation around Oswald’s motives must be suppressed. Unfortunately, the facts about Oswald are too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.). We need something that would prevent public speculation or “wrong” hearings in Congress,” N. Katzenbach noted in the note. FBI Director John Edgar Hoover fully supported the opinion of the US Attorney General. According to him, he and N. Katzenbach needed something that could convince Americans that it was Lee Harvey Oswald who killed President J. Kennedy.
Incredibly, some researchers of the life and work of D. Kennedy believe that Kennedy’s assassination turned out to be a blessing for the United States!.. Because by 1963 he was a complete drug addict!
John Kennedy
In 1980, no one doubted that the new president would not live to see the end of his term. Moreover, Ronald Reagan was no longer young, and his health left much to be desired. There were rumors that the superstitious wife of the future president, Nancy Reagan, having learned that her husband was planning to run in the next election, dissuaded him for several months. And realizing that all the pleas were useless, I decided to try to negotiate with the Indian shamans. Nancy allegedly secretly traveled to the Indian reservation several times and talked with one of the wise old men there. Nobody knows what exactly was discussed. But in the end, the shaman promised to help the future president and gave his wife a magical amulet. Throughout the eight years of his reign, Ronald did not part with this talisman. However, in 1981, there was an assassination attempt on Reagan and he miraculously survived.
On Monday, March 30, 1981, President Reagan, two months after he took office, addressed the Federation of Labor Union delegates at the Hilton Hotel. When leaving the hotel, the president and three of his entourage were wounded by bullets from a revolver. Within three seconds, a certain Hinckley fired six 5.6 mm hollow-point bullets from a Rohm RG-14 revolver. The first bullet hit White House Press Secretary James Brady in the head. The second hit D.C. police officer Thomas Delahanty in the back. The third flew past the president and hit the window of the house opposite. The fourth bullet wounded Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy in the chest. The fifth hit the bulletproof glass of the open door of the presidential limousine. The last bullet ricocheted off the body of the limousine, entered Reagan's chest, caught a rib and lodged in his lung. The President was immediately taken to the George Washington University Hospital. Upon arrival at the hospital, Reagan wiped the blood from his face, exited the limousine, and walked unassisted to the emergency room, where he complained of difficulty breathing. And he fell, losing consciousness. The operation to remove the bullet was carried out immediately and successfully. After the operation, doctors claimed that the president was very lucky - if he had been brought to the hospital ten minutes later, he would have died from internal hemorrhage. The assassin, a certain Hinckley, was detained at the scene of the crime. During the investigation, the motives for his attempt on the president's life became clear. Hinckley was sure that by killing the president, he would become famous throughout the country and thereby attract the attention of the incomparable actress Jodie Foster, with whom he was in love!..
17. LlNCOLN and KENNEDY - 7 letters each.
18. ANDREW JOHNSON and LYNDON JOHNSON - 13 letters each.
19. JOHN WlLKES BOOTH and LEE HARVEY OSWALD - 15 letters each.
20. Lincoln's colleague Miss Kennedy told him not to go to the theater. Kennedy's colleague Miss Lincoln told him not to go to Dallas.
The memory of Tecumseh is honored not only by his descendants from the Shawnee tribe. He is a national hero of Canada; several cities in different states are named after him. More than once the descendants of the colonialists apologized to the Indian tribes...
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