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Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Frank, and Barbara Walters Are the Same Age? Claim Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Frank, and Barbara Walters are all the same age (born in 1929). Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting In December 2019 (and periodically since), a Facebook post claimed that that Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters would all be the same age if everyone was alive today: https://www.facebook.com/opententacademy/photos/a.1350118445047904/2683782505014818/?type=3&theater An additional status update stated the claim was the poster’s morning mind blow. Text around a triptych of King, Walters, and Frank read: Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank would be the same age as Barbara Walters if they were still alive today. We tend to think they existed in very different times, but all three were born in 1929. It was somewhat of a recurring mind blowing claim, tweeted out by @OMGFacts in January 2019 ... Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara Walters and Anne Frank were born in the same year. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die — OMGFacts (@OMGFacts) January 11, 2019 ... and shared in part to Reddit’s r/showerthoughts in July 2015: Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were both born in the same year, yet we associate them as being in completely different periods in history from Showerthoughts Although @OMGFacts simply said Frank, King, and Walters were born in the same year, the meme was typically accompanied by a claim such as one that society at large imagines that they existed in very different times, but all three were born in 1929. On Reddit, the poster said people associate them as being in completely different periods in history. Anne Frank wrote a diary as her family hid in Nazi Germany . Frank died in a concentration camp in 1945 when she was just fifteen years old; she was born on June 12 1929. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. remains famed for his speeches and action. King was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis at the age of 39; he was born on January 15 1929. Veteran broadcaster Barbara Walters, 90 as of December 2019, was the youngest of the three. As the meme stated, Walters too was born in 1929. The youngest of the three, Walters’ birthday is September 25. Despite the memes’ common claims the three were from different periods, some crossover existed between King’s fame and Walters. King was a national figure in the 1960s, and Walters’ career on television began in the 1950s. However, she was not officially recognized as a co-host until the 1970s: In 1961 NBC hired Barbara Walters to work as a researcher and writer for its popular Today show. Her initial assignments were stories slanted toward female viewers. Within a few months, however, she lobbied for a breakthrough assignment to travel with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on a trip to India and Pakistan. The resulting report earned Walters increasing responsibility at the network. [...] By 1964 Walters became a staple of the Today show — starring alongside Hugh Downs and, later, Frank McGee — and earned the nickname Today girl. Though serving as a co-host, she wasn’t given that official billing until 1974, and was restricted from asking questions of the show’s serious guests until the male co-host had finished asking his. Memes and posts claiming that Anne Frank, Barbara Walters, and Martin Luther King Jr. were all born in the same year were correct; all three came into the world in 1929. Frank lived to be 15 and King lived to be 39; Walters was 90 as of the end of 2019. Also born that year were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Dick Clark, and June Carter Cash. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged anne frank , barbara walters , fact memes , history memes , martin luther king jr , viral facebook posts , viral reddit posts , viral tweets
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