Off topic, but don't go too far overboard - after all, we are watching...heh.
Sat Nov 23, 2002 4:29 pm
Kennedy-Lincoln coincidences
The amazing coincidences surrounding the Kennedy assassination, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
- Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
- Lincoln was elected president in 1860. Kennedy was elected president in 1960.
- 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.
- The name Lincoln contains seven letters. The name Kennedy contains seven letters.
- Lee Harvey Oswald is 15 letters. John Wilkes Booth is 15 letters.
- Kennedy was succeeded in office by a Vice President named Johnson. Lincoln was succeeded in office by a Vice President named Johnson.
- Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre, and fled to a warehouse. Oswald allegedly shot Kennedy from a warehouse, and fled to a theatre.
- Both Presidents were shot in the head.
- Both were sitting beside their wife when they were shot.
- Both were killed on a Friday.
- Lincoln’s secretary, named Kennedy, warned him not to go to the theatre. Kennedy’s secretary, named Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas.
- Lincoln was shot and died in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy was shot and killed in a Ford automobile. And that automobile ... was a Lincoln
Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:28 am
this is an old thread, but it is interesting.
Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:05 am
Bored Tommy?