[Higher_Desire]

Here's some freaky parallels between President Abraham Lincoln and President J.F.K.

- Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
- John Kennedy was elected in 1960.

- Lincoln's successor - Andrew Johnson - was born in 1808.
- Kennedy's successor - Lyndon Johnson - was born in 1908.

- Lincoln's killer - John Wilkes Booth - was born in 1839.
- Kennedy's killer - Lee Harvey Oswald - was born in 1939.

- Lincoln and Kennedy were both directly concerned with Civil Rights.

- Booth and Oswald were both Southerners favoring unpopular ideas.

- Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and hid in a warehouse.
- Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and hid in a theater.

- The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
- The names Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each contain thirteen letters.
- The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald each contain fifteen letters.

- Lincoln and Kennedy were both killed on a Friday.
- Both were killed in the presence of their wives.
- Both were shot from behind and in the head.
- Both assassins were killed before being brought to trial.

- Lincoln's and Kennedy's successors both had the surname Johnson.
- Lincoln's secretary's last name was Kennedy, while Kennedy's secretary's last name was Lincoln.

-Lincoln was shot in the Kennedy Theatre.
-Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln car.


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