Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Tale of Two U.S. Presidents

There are remarkable coincidences between JOHN F. KENNEDY and ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the revered US president during the American civil war and the man who abolished slavery in America.

-They were elected to the presidency 100 years apart, in 1860 and 1960.
-Both were assassinated, both on Friday and both in the presence of their wives.
-Both asssassins were known by three names: John Wilkes Booth and lee Harvey Oswald.
-Lincol was shot at Ford's theater. Kennedy was shot in a Ford Lincoln Limousine.
-Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and hid in a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from Warehouse and hid in a theater.
-Both their Vice Presidents(and their immediate successors)were southern Democrats surnamed Johnson, Andrew and Lyndon, Respectively.
-Both Oswald and Booth were killed before they could be put on Trial.

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