3.16.2008

President Lincoln and Kennedy

I came across this website on a recent Google search on the Kennedy curse. The following is just a piece of some of the information on the website.

Lincoln & Kennedy - The Coincidences


President Abraham Lincoln and President John F. Kennedy died in tragic circumstances.

Curiously, both the Presidents were elected exactly one hundred years apart (1860 and 1960).


Further how does one explain that :


  • Both the Presidents were assassinated on a Friday, in the presence of their wives.
  • Each wife had lost a son while living at the White House.
  • Lincoln was killed in Ford's Theater. Kennedy was killed in a Lincoln convertible manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.
  • The first name of Lincoln's private secretary was John, the first name of Kennedy's private secretary was Lincoln.
  • John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln's assassin) was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939, one hundred years later.
  • Both the assassins were Southerners who held extremist views. Both the assassins were murdered before they could be brought to trial.
  • Both the Presidents were deeply involved in civil rights for Black people.
  • Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and fled to a barn. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theatre.
  • Both President's were killed by a bullet that entered the head from behind.
  • Both the Presidents 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 a hundred years later.
  • LINCOLN and KENNEDY, each has seven letters. The names of both the assassins are of 15 letters each.
  • Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson, the Presidents who succeeded the assassinated Presidents have 13 letters each in their names

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