JFK was elected to Congress in 1946
Abe was elected President in 1860
JFK was elected President in 1960
Both had the legality of their elections contested
Both presidents were named for their grandfathers.
Both were born second children
Before each was elected to the presidency, each lost a sister to death.
Both married while in their thirties.
Both married dark-haired, twenty-four-year-old women.
Each wife had been previously engaged to someone else.
Both wives were from socially prominent families.
Both wives were fluent in French.
Both wives were known for their high fashion in clothes.
Both wives were criticized by their husbands for spending money.
Both wives renovated the White House after many years of neglect.
Each couple had four children, two of whom died before becoming a teen.
Each couple lost a son while in the White House.
Both the Lincoln & Kennedy children rode ponies on the White House lawn.
Lincoln had sons named Robert and Edward.
Kennedy had brothers named Robert and Edward.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights
Both were over 6 feet tall
Both enjoyed sitting in rocking chairs.
Both were known for their quick wit.
Both liked to quote the Bible.
Both liked to quote Shakespeare.
Both could express themselves well. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize and
many of Lincoln's works are considered classics.
Both seemed to have lazy eye muscles which would
sometimes cause one to deviate.
Neither president was known to carry money and
constantly borrowed funds from friends.
Both had no fear of their mortality and disdained bodyguards.
Both often stated how easy it would be to shoot a president.
Both received many letters threatening their lives.
In the year of his death, Lincoln received over 80 letters.
In the year of his death, Kennedy received over 800 letters.
Both their wives lost a son while living in the White House
Both suffered from a genetic disease. It is suspected that Lincoln had
Marfan's disease and Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease
Both were boat captains. Lincoln was a skipper of the Talisman, a
Mississippi river boat, and Kennedy was skipper of PT 109
The Secretary of each President warned them not
to go to the theatre and Dallas, respectively
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday
In each case, that Friday was one before a holiday. Lincoln was shot on
Good Friday and Kennedy was shot on the Friday before Thanksgiving.
Both were shot in the head
Both were in the presence of their wives
Neither Mrs. Lincoln nor Mrs. Kennedy were injured
Both wives held the bullet-torn heads of their husbands.
Both presidents were in the company of another couple when shot
In each case, the man was injured but not fatally. Major Rathbone
was slashed by a knife and Governor Connolly was shot.
Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre.
Kennedy was shot in a Ford product (Lincoln Limo)
Lincoln sat in box 7 at Ford's Theatre
Kennedy rode in car 7 in the Dallas motorcade
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters
Both autopsies were performed by military personnel
Both Lincoln and Kennedy were buried in mahogany caskets
Both presidents bodies rested on the same catafalque and caisson
Both presidents died in a place with the initials P and H. Lincoln died
in the Peterson House and Kennedy died in Parkland Hospital.
Both were assasinated by Southerners
Both were succeeded by Southerners
Both successors were named Johnson
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908
There are six letters in each Johnson's first name.
Both Johnsons entered the presidency in their mid-fifties.
Both Johnsons chose not to run for reelection in '68.
Investigations for conspiracy were conducted for both
presidential assassinations.
Autopsies were done on both assassins to clarify identity.
Formal investigations were conducted after each presidential death.
In each case, after a number of years, the investigation was reopened
without really resolving who was involved in the assassination.
Both assassins had three names: John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald.
There of 15 letters in each assassin's name.
Both assassins struck in their mid-twenties.
Booth was born in 1838 and Oswald was born in 1939
Booth ran from the theatre and was captured in a warehouse
Oswald ran from the warehouse and was captured in a theatre
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before trial
Both assassins were killed with a single shot from a Colt revolver
Each assassin was detained by an officer named Baker.
Lt. Luther B. Baker was the leader of the cavalry patrol which trapped
Booth at Garrett's barn. Officer Marion L. Baker, a Dallas motorcycle
patrolman briefly detained Oswald on the second floor of the School
Depository until he learned that he worked there.
Both assassins envisioned their deeds as a way to glory and fame.
Both assassins received their fame posthumously since they
were shot down before they achieved it.
Both assassins were shot in a blaze of light--Booth after the barn was set afire
and Oswald in front of the television cameras.
Both assassins were shot before their version of the presidential
assassination could be learned.
Both of these assassins had changed their names. Corbett's real first
name was Thomas and Ruby changed his name from Jacob Rubenstein.
Both Corbett and Ruby were known as unstable men prone to violence.
Mystery or statistical coincidence?
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