How fate linked the destinies of Lincoln and Kennedy
The assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Fitzgerald Kennedy are linked together by an amazing series of coincidences.
Abraham Lincoln was first elected to Congress in 1846. John Kennedy followed exactly 100 years later.
Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States in November, 1860. Kennedy was elected to be the Republic’s 35th President in November, 1960.
After their deaths they were both succeeded by southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808, and Lyndon Johnson in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed Lincoln was born in 1838, while Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s killer, was born 101 years later. Both men were southerners, and both were themselves shot before they could come to trial.
Booth committed his crime in a theater and then ran to a barn. Oswald pulled the trigger on Kennedy from the window of a warehouse – and ran to a theater.
Booth had forebodings
On the day he was assassinated, Lincoln told a guard, William H. Crook: “I believe there are men who want to take my life… And I have no doubt they will do it… If it is to be done, it is impossible to prevent it”.
And Kennedy unsuspectingly told his wife, Jackie, and his personal adviser Ken O’Donnell: “If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it”?
He happened to say this on November 22, 1963. Kennedy was shot a few hours after making this statement.
Lincoln and Kennedy were both historic civil right campaigners, and both were shot on Friday, in the back of the head. Their wives were with them.
Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theater. Kennedy was shot in an automobile made by the Ford Motor Company – a Lincoln.
One final unhappy coincidence is that Kennedy had a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln, who reportedly advised him against going to
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Date: 2007-05-20 01:06 pm (UTC)Deaths of Presidents
How fate linked the destinies of Lincoln and Kennedy
The assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Fitzgerald Kennedy are linked together by an amazing series of coincidences.
Abraham Lincoln was first elected to Congress in 1846. John Kennedy followed exactly 100 years later.
Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States in November, 1860. Kennedy was elected to be the Republic’s 35th President in November, 1960.
After their deaths they were both succeeded by southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808, and Lyndon Johnson in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed Lincoln was born in 1838, while Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s killer, was born 101 years later. Both men were southerners, and both were themselves shot before they could come to trial.
Booth committed his crime in a theater and then ran to a barn. Oswald pulled the trigger on Kennedy from the window of a warehouse – and ran to a theater.
Booth had forebodings
On the day he was assassinated, Lincoln told a guard, William H. Crook: “I believe there are men who want to take my life… And I have no doubt they will do it… If it is to be done, it is impossible to prevent it”.
And Kennedy unsuspectingly told his wife, Jackie, and his personal adviser Ken O’Donnell: “If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it”?
He happened to say this on November 22, 1963. Kennedy was shot a few hours after making this statement.
Lincoln and Kennedy were both historic civil right campaigners, and both were shot on Friday, in the back of the head. Their wives were with them.
Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theater. Kennedy was shot in an automobile made by the Ford Motor Company – a Lincoln.
One final unhappy coincidence is that Kennedy had a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln, who reportedly advised him against going to
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