Do you know the connections (or similarities) between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy (and their assassinations)? Are these merely coincidences or is this a part of something bigger?
- Lincoln was elected in 1860
- Kennedy was elected in 1960
- Each name has seven letters
- Both Presidents were slain on a Friday
- Both were slain in the presence of their wives
- Both were directly concerned with Civil Rights
- Both Presidents had had the legality of their elections contested
- Kennedy’s secretary, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas
- Lincoln’s secretary, Kennedy, warned him not to go to the theater
- Both of their successors were named Johnson
- Andrew Johnson
- Lyndon Johnson
- Each name contains thirteen (13) letters
- Both served in the U.S. Senate
- Both were southern Democrats
- Andrew Johnson was born in 1808
- Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908
- Booth and Oswald were both southerners favoring unpopular ideas
- Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and hid in a warehouse
- Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and hid in a theater
- Booth and Oswald were murdered before their trials could be arranged
- Lincoln and Kennedy were carried in death on the same caisson
- Booth and Oswald were born 100 years apart
- John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, each name has fifteen (15) letters
