Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Kennedy and Lincoln - Strange coincidences !

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected exactly 100 years later in 1946.

Lincoln became president in 1860 and Kennedy in 1960.

They have the same number of letters in their surnames.

Both of them were human rights activists and their wives lost their babies while they were in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on Friday.
Both of them were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary last name is Kennedy and Kennedy’s Lincoln.

Both of them were killed by a southerner.

Presidents who entered the White House after the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy were southerners.

Their surname was Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born exactly one century later in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who killed Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who killed Kennedy, was born, surprisingly, one hundred years later in 1939.

Both the assassins had three names with 15 letters.

Lincoln was assassinated in a theater named John Kennedy while Kennedy was killed in a car brand Lincoln.

Booth escaped from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald fled to a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Both of them were killed before the trial.

In the end: a week before Lincoln's death was in Monroe Maryland; a week before he was killed, Kennedy was with Marilyn Monroe.

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