How Did This Happen???

Question:Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln .

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Linc oln , was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln .

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Linc oln , was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

One word "Conspiracy".

weird huh?

whooooooooooa.
that's crazy!

Oh my God...

holy ****

uhhh......ok

woah!!!!! freaky!!!!

Yeah. But I've heard that a million times before. And I think it was just an odd coincidence, that's all.

i saw this in a email! crazy huh?!
"history mystery"

get a life

That guy was wrong. November 22, 1963 was a Friday.

I have been hearing this since I was in elementary school. I guess they do not talk about this in school anymore. It's interesting, isn't it?

By the way, Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Nixon was never assassinated. He resigned due to the Watergate Scandal in 1974 and died from a stroke in 1994. Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, but he survived.

Re the "kicker," Marilyn Monroe was dead over a year before Kennedy was assassinated.

The rest of it's just coincidence, or incorrect. See the Snopes article.

I think Jacqueline Kennedy perhaps had a miscarriage but one (or two) of the Lincoln children actually died while they were living in the White House. Not exactly the same thing.

Nixon was not assassinated! He was impeached! In 1974, not 1980.

Kennedy was shot on a friday not a thursday. Yeah that is weird, but alot of that is misleading. A lot of it though is weird.

-Depends on what you call "congress". As Kennedy was elected to STATE congress in 1946.
-Well one can only be elected every four years. Note as unusual as it sounds. THis is not unlike the odds of any 30 people having the same birthday (much higher than one would think).
- NOT TRUE. Lincoln was concerned with preserving and preventing the spread of slavery (which he was convinced was allowed by the Constitution in states that had it at signing-as were most Americans.) He later did feel slavery must be eliminated but NEVER believed that white and black were "equal" as say Kennedy understood the term. Speaking of whom, he was elected on a "get tough with the Russians" platform, NOT civil rights. He only was interested in them after the riots of 1962, and MLK's movement. Actually Eisenhower was at least concerned as Kennedy.
Again NOT TRUE. Lincoln's "secretary" a term that is subject to interpretation BTW, was named HERNDON, his law secretary and partner.
John Wilkes Booth was NOT a "southerner". He came from a prominent family of NEW YORK actors; though he certainly had southern sentiment
Johnson is the 3rd most common name in America. If they were both named Zytan or something exotic, you might have a point.
JWB was born in 1838 BTW.
JWB was known by his middle name to distinguish him from his Uncle IIRC, also a well known Shakespearean Actor.
True Lincoln visited FORT Monroe, but he commonly visited small towns with Federal garrisons near DC. Kennedy also visited several small towns, Come to think of it I have visited several small towns, and I was born in 1960! OMG!

That's crazy! Either it's a creepy coincidence or someone had it all carefully planned out. I wonder if anyone will ever figure it out and find out how it happened.

Man, that's weird.

just coincidence, nothing more than that.