Friday, May 27, 2005

This never fails to amaze me

The Coincidences between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy
  • 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 has 7 letters.
  • ANDREW JOHNSON and LYNDON JOHNSON each has 13 letters.
  • JOHN WlLKES BOOTH and LEE HARVEY OSWALD each has 15 letters.
  • A Lincoln 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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