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Dead on the Fourth of July
Melissa Etehad
On July 4, 1831, James Monroe died from heart failure and tuberculosis ... Five years earlier ... Thomas Jefferson and John Adams .. died ...
... in 2005 historian Margaret P. Battin entertained the meaning behind the same-day deaths ...
Coincidence.
Divine intervention.
“Hanging on” to life in order to ensure death on July 4.
Caused to die by others.
Allowing oneself to die.
Causing oneself to die.
Each of these theories, she said, lacks historical evidence ...
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-july-fourth-presidents-20170704-story.html
