Lincoln and Kenndy Connections

Strange coincidences found on random sites:

• Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
• John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
• Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
• John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
• Both Kennedy and Lincoln were deeply involved in the civil rights issues of the era, in Lincoln's day, the issue was slavery, in Kennedy's, it was segregation.
• Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.
• Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
• Both Presidents were shot in the head.
• Both wives were present during the assassination.
• Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who warned him not to go to the theater the night he was killed. Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who warned him not to go to Dallas where he was killed.
• Both were assassinated by Southerners.
• Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
• Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln , was born in 1808.
• Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
• John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
• Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
• Both assassins were known by their three names.
• Both presidents' names contain 7 letters, their successors' names contain 13 letters, their assassins contain 15 letters.
• Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."
• Kennedy was shot in a "Lincoln" car made by "Ford."
• Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
• A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
• A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with (in) Marilyn Monroe.
• Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran into a warehouse; Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran into a theater.