Amazing Coincidences

The world is filled with astonishing occurrences of coincidence and synchronicity that defy explanation. Are these incredible true stories of mere chance... or the hand of fate

The apparently strange parallels in the lives of U.S. Presidents Abraham
Lincoln and John Kennedy are a recurring question...

Life:
1. Both presidents had seven letters in their last names.
2. Both were over 6 feet tall.
3. Both were athletic men.
4. Both enjoyed sitting in rocking chairs.
5. Both were known for their quick wit.
6. Both liked to quote the Bible.
7. Both liked to quote Shakespeare.
8. Both could express themselves well. Kennedy won the Pulizer Prize and
many of Lincoln's works are considered classics.
9. Both seemed to have lazy eye muscles which would sometimes cause one to
deviate.
10. Both suffered from genetic diseases. It is suspected that Lincoln had
Marfan's disease and Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease.
11. Both served in the military. Lincoln was a scout captain in the Black
Hawk War and Kennedy served as a naval lieutenant in World War II.
12. Both were boat captains. Lincoln was skipper of the *Talisman*, a
Mississippi River boat, and Kennedy was skipper of PT 109.
13. Neither president was known to carry money and constantly borrowed funds
from friends.
14. Both had no fear of their mortality and disdained bodyguards.
15. Both often stated how easy it would be to shoot a president.
16. Both received many letters threatening their lives. In the year of his
death, Lincoln received over 80 letters. In the year of his death, Kennedy
received over 800 letters.

Death
17. Both presidents were shot in the head.
18. Both were shot on a Friday.
19. In each case, that Friday was one before a holiday. Linclon was shot on
Good Friday and Kennedy was shot on the Friday before Thanksgiving.
20. Both were seated beside their wives when shot.
21. Neither Mrs. Linclon nor Mrs. Kennedy were injured.
22. Both wives held the bullet-torn heads of their husbands.
23. Both presidents were in the company of another couple when shot.
24. In each case, the man was injured but not fatally. Major Rathbone was
slashed by a knife and Governor Connolly was shot.
25. Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Ford product,
a Lincoln limousine.
26. Lincoln sat in Box 7 at Ford's Theatre. Kennedy rode in car 7 in the
Dallas motorcade.
27. Both presidents received the best medical attention available.
28. Both received closed chest massage.
29. Both presidents died in a place with the initials P and H. Lincoln died
in the Peterson House and Kennedy died in Parkland Hospital.
30. The wives of both presidents were with them when they died.
31. Autopsies were performed on both presidents.
32. Both autopsies were performed by military personnel.
33. Both Lincoln and Kennedy were buried in mahogany caskets.
34. The bodies of both presients rested on the same catafalque and caisson.
35. Mrs. Kennedy insisted that her husband's funeral mirror Lincoln's as
closely as possible.

The Assassins
36. Both assassins had three names: John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald.
37. There of 15 letters in each assassin's name.
38. Both assassins struck in their mid-twenties. Booth was born in 1838 and
Oswald was born in 1939.
39. Each assassin lacked a stron father figure in his life. Booth's father
died when he was 13 years old and Oswald's died before he was born.
40. Each assassin had two brothers whose careers he coveted. Booth's two
brothers were more successful actors and Oswald envied his brothers'
military lives.
41. Both assassins were privates in the military. Booth was a private in
Virginia Militia and Oswald was a private in the Marine Corps.
42. Both assassins were born in the South
43. Both assassins were known sympathizers to enemies of the United States.
Booth supported the Confederacy and Oswals was a Marxist.
44. Both assiaains were fond of writing down their thoughts; Booth kept a
diary and Oswald kept a journal.
45. Both assassins often used aliases. Booth frequently used "J. Wilkes"
and Oswald used the name "Alek J. Hidell."
46. Both assassins knew of their victims' whereabouts by readin of it in the
newspapers.
47. Both assassins planned their deed well.
48. Booth shot Lincoln at a theatre and was cornered ina warehouse. Oswald
shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was cornered in a theatre.