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- Lincoln was elected in 1860. Kennedy was elected in 1960.
- Both were slain on a Friday in the presence of their wives.
- Lincoln was assassinated in the Ford theatre,
Kennedy was assassinated in a Ford (Lincoln) automobile
- Their successors, both named Johnson, were Southerners,
Democrats, and had previously served in the US Senate.
- Andrew Johnson was born in 1808;
L. B. Johnson was born in 1908.
- John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839
- Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939.
- Both Booth and Oswald were murdered
before trial could begin.
- Both presidents' wives lost children through death
while residing in the White House.
- Lincoln's secretary, whose name was Kennedy,
advised him not to go to the theater;
and Kennedy's secretary, whose name was Lincoln,
advised him not to go to Dallas.