Lincoln & Kennedy: What About All Those “Coincidences”?

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Lincoln & Kennedy: What About All Those “Coincidences”?
      

-- Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, John Kennedy in 1960.

-- Both men were both assassinated on a Friday.

-- Lincoln was killed in Ford's Theatre, Kennedy killed riding in a Lincoln convertible made by the Ford Motor Company.

-- Both were succeeded by Southern Democrats named Johnson.

-- Assassins John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald both have 15 letters in their names.

What to make of these coincidences?  

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