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Comparing Kennedy's death to Lincoln's gives you a host of weird coincidences. Some examples are:
Both Presidents were shot in
the head, on the Friday before a major holiday, whilst seated beside their wives, neither of whom were injured
Both were in the presence of another couple, and in each case that man was also wounded by the assassin.
After both assassinations there were loud and insistent claims that the fatal shot must have come from a different direction.
Each President in his thirties married a socailly prominent twenty-four year old girl who spoke French fluently.
Both had been boat captains.
Both were related to a U.S. Senator, Attorney General, ambassador to Great Britain, and the mayor of Boston.
Each had been elected to Congress in the year '47 and were vice-presidential runners-up in the year '56.
Each was elected president in '60.
Both had a friend named Billy Graham and knew an Adlai Stevenson.
President Kennedy had a secretary named Mrs. Lincoln and President Lincoln had a secretary named John Kennedy.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were succeeded by vice-presidents named Johnson: Andrew born in 1808 and Lyndon in 1908, both of whom had 13 letters in their names
Both assassins have fifteen letters in their names.
Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and fled to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theatre.
Both assassins have fifteen letters in their names.
Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and fled to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theatre.
Both assassins were in turn assassinated by shooters who used a Colt revolver and fired only one, fatal shot.
The two assassins were born 100 years apart from each other - 1839 and 1939, similar to Lincoln and Kennedy’s parallel career timelines.
As is tradition, both Lincoln and Kennedy were succeeded by their vice presidents. However, both successors shared a surname: Andrew Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson. The two successors were born a century apart from each other in 1808 and 1908.
JOHN F. KENNEDY had a secretary named Evelyn LINCOLN whose husband was named Harold "Abe" LINCOLN and who was in the motorcade when Kennedy was assassinated.
Did you know that John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839 and Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939?