Parallels between the slayings of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy:
- Both men fought ardently for civil rights.
- Lincoln was elected in 1860, Kennedy in 1960, exactly a century later.
- Both men were slain on a Friday in the presence of their wives.
- Both men were shot in the head.
- Both Vice Presidents who succeeded them were named Johnson, Andrew Johnson for Lincoln, Lyndon Johnson for Kennedy.
- Both Johnsons were Southern Democrats and both had been U.S. Senators.
- Andrew Johnson was born in 1808, Lyndon in 1908, exactly a century later.
- John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy's assassin was born in 1939, exactly a century later.
- Booth and Oswald were both Southerners who favored unpopular ideas.
- A Lincoln secretary named Kennedy advised him not to go to theatre the night he was slain. A Kennedy secretary named Lincoln warned him against going to Dallas.
- Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and fled to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theatre.
- The names Kennedy and Lincoln both contain se7en letters. The names Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each contain th1rt3en letters. The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald each contain fifteen letters
- Both assassins were shot and killed before they could be brought to trial.
- Both Kennedy and Lincoln voiced premonitions of death shortly before their assassinations.
- Both men lost children while in the White House.
I'll get to the my opinion about all of this later....after it's sunken in for those of you who have never read this.
