Lincoln" and "Kennedy" each have seven letters.
Both presidents were elected to Congress in '46 and later to the presidency in '60.
Both married women in their 20s while themselves in their 30s.
Both lost a son while living in the White House.
Both were shot in the presence of their wives.
Both assassins, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, were born in '39 and were known by their three names, composed of fifteen letters.
Booth ran from Ford's Theatre and was caught in a warehouse; Oswald ran from the Dealey Plaza warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Both presidents were runners-up for the party's nomination for vice-president in '56.
Both successors were Southern Democrats surnamed Johnson;both were born in '08 and their first names contained six letters.
The assassins were both Southerners.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. and made their views strongly known in '63. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which became law a year later. A century later, Kennedy presented his reports to Congress on Civil Rights, during the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that same year.
Both presidents were shot in the head on a Friday and died at nearby locations (Lincoln at the Petersen House across the street and Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital down the road).
Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Ford car: a Lincoln limousine.
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to Ford's Theatre. Kennedy had a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln (whose husband Harold's nickname was Abe), and she warned him not to go to Dallas.
Both Oswald and Booth were assassinated before they could be put on trial
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