Lincoln - Kennedy Coincidences
January 30, 2010
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- Lincoln was elected in 1860, Kennedy in 1960, 100 years apart.
- Both men were deeply involved in civil rights for African Americans.
- Both men were assassinated on a Friday, in the presence of their wives.
- Each wife had lost a child while living at the White House.
- Both men were killed by a bullet that entered the head from behind.
- Lincoln was killed in Ford's Theater. Kennedy met his death while riding in a Lincoln convertible made by the Ford Motor Company.
- Both men were succeeded by vice-presidents named Johnson who were Southern Democrats and former senators.
- Andrew Johnson was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908, exactly one hundred years later.
- The first name of Lincoln's private secretary was John; the last name of Kennedy's private secretary was Lincoln.
- John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839 [according to some sources]; Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939, one hundred years later.
- Both assassins were Southerners who held extremist views.
- Both assassins were murdered before they could be brought to trial.
- Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater.
- LlNCOLN and KENNEDY each have 7 letters.
- ANDREW JOHNSON and LYNDON JOHNSON each have 13 letters.
- JOHN WlLKES BOOTH and LEE HARVEY OSWALD each has 15 letters.
- A Licoln staffer Miss Kennedy told him not to go to the Theater. A Kennedy staffer, Miss Lincoln, told him not to go to Dallas.
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