These two United States Presidents may have more in common than you thought.

The Similarities In The Facts

• 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 were particularly concerned with civil rights.

• 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.

• Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
  Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

• 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 names are composed of fifteen letters.

• Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."
  Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" 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 Marilyn Monroe.

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President Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...

President Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater...

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