The Lincoln–Kennedy Coincidences

The Lincoln–Kennedy Coincidences

By Expotera
August 7, 2018

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States
of America until his, "Assassination" on April 14, 1865.

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States
of America until his, "Assassination" on November 22, 1963.

A year after President Kennedy's assassination in November of
1963 a, "List of Coincidences" first appeared in the, "G.O.P.
Congressional Committee Newsletter" then in the mainstream
American press between President Lincoln and President Kennedy's
individual lives, and their individual, "Assassinations" as well.

Below for your independent, objective and thoughtful review is a
copy of this, "List of Coincidences" which was first published back
in 1964, but still to this very day is truly a very fascinating thing to
read and to look back on as the United States of America as we all
now know it to be continues to head down, "The Rabbit Hole" here
in 2018:

Both presidents were elected to the House of Representatives
in '46.

Both presidents were non-masons and both of their successors
were masons (non-mason presidents replaced with mason power).

Both were losing candidates for their party's vice-presidential
nomination in '56.

Both presidents were elected to the presidency in '60.

Both died after being shot in the head

Lincoln defeated incumbent Vice President John C. Breckinridge
for the presidency in 1860.

Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard M. Nixon
for the presidency in 1960.

Both their predecessors were the last presidents to be born in
their respective centuries.

Both their predecessors left office in their seventies and retired
to Pennsylvania.

James Buchanan, whom Lincoln succeeded,
retired to Lancaster Township.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom Kennedy succeeded,
retired to Gettysburg.

They both then died before the end of the decade.

Both their Vice Presidents and successors were Southern Democrats
named Johnson (Andrew Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson) who were
born in '08.

Both presidents were concerned with issues affecting
Black Americans and made their views strongly known
in '63.

Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862,
which took effect in 1863.

In 1963, Kennedy presented his reports to Congress on issues
related to the Civil Rights Movement, and in June of that year
delivered his Civil Rights Address on radio and television in
which he proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Both presidents, and their successors, conferred with a nationally
known black leader about civil rights.

Both Lincoln and Andrew Johnson conferred with
Frederick Douglass.

Both Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson conferred with
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Both presidents were known for their wit and eloquence, and both
frequently quoted Shakespeare and the Bible in their speeches.

Both presidents had been captains of ships in their private lives:
Lincoln on a river boat, and Kennedy on PT-109.

Each president suffered from a genetic disease.

Lincoln had Marfan's syndrome.

Kennedy had Addison's disease.

Both presidents were shot in the head on a Friday seated beside
their wives.

Both Fridays preceded a major holiday observed within the week.

During the assassination, they were sitting in an alphabetical
pattern.

Their spouses first name and both president's last name.

J,K,L,M- Jackie, Kennedy, Lincoln, Mary.

Jackie was seated to the left of Kennedy and Mary to
the right of Lincoln.

Both presidents were accompanied by another couple.

The male companion of the other couple was wounded
by the assassin.

Both presidents fathered four children, and had a son
die during his presidency.

Both presidents had only one child survive into the next century.

That child served another president by political appointment.

Both presidents' wives died in their sixties after an untimely decline
in health, during the administration of a president who had seen
their husbands in Washington, D.C. the same year as the
assassination (Mary Todd Lincoln died during the presidency of
Chester A. Arthur. Arthur had attended President Lincoln's 1865
inauguration.

Jacqueline Kennedy died during the presidency of Bill Clinton.

Clinton met President Kennedy in 1963 during a Boys State
summer program).

Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.

Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in a Lincoln automobile,
made by Ford.

Both presidents' last names have 7 letters.

Both assassins' full names have 15 letters.

Each assassin committed his crime in the building where he
was employed.

Both presidents were purportedly smiling immediately before
the assassination began.

After shooting Lincoln, Booth ran from a theatre to a warehouse;
after shooting Kennedy, Oswald ran from a warehouse to a theatre.

Both assassins died in the same month as their victim in a state
adjacent to the state of their birth.

Both assassins were Southern white males born in the late '30s, who
were in their mid-20s, and were 5'8" in height with hazel eyes and
brown hair.

Both assassins were sympathetic to a government that opposed the
United States, and both had once resided within that government's
borders.

Both assassins were killed before being tried, by men who were
reared in the North, changed their name as adults, and were
bachelors.

Both assassins suffered injuries during escape.

Both assassins fled using modes of transportation they did not own.

Booth rented a horse, Oswald rode a bus.

Both presidents had body guards named William, William H. Crook
told Lincoln not to go to the assassination point, William Greer
drove JFK to the assassination point.

Both bodyguards named William died within 48 hours of being aged
75 years, 5 months.

Presidential security was heavily criticized,
after each assassination, for being too lax.

Lincoln sat in box number 7 at Ford's Theater.

Kennedy sat in car number 7 in the motorcade.

The doctors who primarily attended to each president were both
named Charles.

Dr. Charles Leale treated Lincoln.

Dr. Charles Crenshaw treated Kennedy.

Each president died in a place with the initials "P.H." Lincoln died
at the Petersen House and Kennedy died at Parkland Hospital.

Kennedy was the second president in U.S. history who issued
interest-free money.

The first was Lincoln, who issued greenbacks to finance the war
between the states in the American Civil War.