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Aside from being two of the United States' most famous and popular presidents, there are a number of similarities and points of comparison between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln that have fascinated historians and conspiracy theorists alike for decades. Others argue that the similarities are merely coincidences and that similarities can be found between any two people if one looks hard enough.
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- Named after their grandfathers
- Had a lazy eye
- Often borrowed money from friends
- Studied law
- Runner-up for Vice Presidential nomination in '56
- Involved in civil rights movements
- Fluent in French
- Renovated The White House
- Fashionable and dark-haired
- Lincoln was sitting in box 7, Kennedy was riding in car 7
- Shot in the company of their wife and another couple
- Murder spurred conspiracy theories
- Known by their first, middle and last name
- Saw assassination as a way of attaining fame and notoriety
- In their mid-twenties
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Kennedy Lincoln Similarities on Amazon
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Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? - $3.00
Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? (Item #: 608) Everyone has heard comparisons made between great U.S. presidents, but this document shows the eerie similarities between two of the most beloved: Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Through 18 vi...
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Kennedy Lincoln Similarities on Amazon
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Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? - $3.00
Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? (Item #: 608) Everyone has heard comparisons made between great U.S. presidents, but this document shows the eerie similarities between two of the most beloved: Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Through 18 vi...
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Kennedy Lincoln Similarities on Amazon
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Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? - $3.00
Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? (Item #: 608) Everyone has heard comparisons made between great U.S. presidents, but this document shows the eerie similarities between two of the most beloved: Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Through 18 vi...
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Kennedy Lincoln Similarities on Amazon
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Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? - $3.00
Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? (Item #: 608) Everyone has heard comparisons made between great U.S. presidents, but this document shows the eerie similarities between two of the most beloved: Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Through 18 vi...
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Kennedy Lincoln Similarities on Amazon
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Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? - $3.00
Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? (Item #: 608) Everyone has heard comparisons made between great U.S. presidents, but this document shows the eerie similarities between two of the most beloved: Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Through 18 vi...
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Kennedy Lincoln Similarities on Amazon
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Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? - $3.00
Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidence? (Item #: 608) Everyone has heard comparisons made between great U.S. presidents, but this document shows the eerie similarities between two of the most beloved: Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Through 18 vi...
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Biographies
- Served in the military
- Lincoln: Black Hawk War
- Kennedy: Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109
- Elected to Congress in a '46 year
- Lincoln: 1846
- Kennedy: 1946
- Famous debate opponents born in a '13 year
- Lincoln: Stephen Douglas, born in 1813
- Kennedy: Richard Nixon, born in 1913
- Elected President in a '60 year
- Similarly-titled 1964 books published about civil rights records
Spouses and Families
- Married 24-year-old women
- Lincoln: Mary Todd Lincoln
- Kennedy: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Lost sisters before becoming president
- Lincoln: Sister Sarah died in childbirth
- Kennedy: Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish
- Had children die while serving as president
- Lincoln: William Wallace Lincoln
- Kennedy: Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Assassinations
- Assassinated while in office
- Killed on a Friday of a holiday weekend
- Lincoln: Shot on Good Friday
- Kennedy: Shot on the Friday before Thanksgiving
- Shot in the back of the head
- Killed by Southerners
- Lincoln: John Wilkes Booth
- Kennedy: Lee Harvey Oswald
- Succeeded by Southerners named Johnson
- Lincoln: Andrew Johnson
- Kennedy: Lyndon Johnson
- Died in buildings initiaited "P.H."
- Lincoln: National Park Service: Petersen House
- Kennedy: Parkland Hospital
Other Coincidences and Connections
- 1861 assassination of Lincoln foiled by a policeman named "John Kennedy"
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Allan Pinkerton and the Attempted Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Suffered genetic ailments and may have both had clinical depression
- Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln Continental
- Channel4: Notorious Cars
- Kennedy's secretary was named "Lincoln"
- St Petersburg Times: "Evelyn Lincoln devoted her life to Camelot"
- Served in the military


