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Lincoln and Kennedy
Both presidents were elected to the presidency in '60.
Both presidents were elected to the House of Representatives in '46.
Both were runners-up for the party's nomination for vice-president in '56.
Both their Vice Presidents and successors were Southern Democrats named Johnson who were born in '08.
Both presidents were concerned with the problems of black Americans and made their views strongly known in '63. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which became law in 1863. In 1963, Kennedy presented his reports to Congress on Civil Rights, and the same year was the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Both presidents were shot in their heads.
Both presidents were shot from behind.
Both presidents were shot in presence of their wives.
Both presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both presidents were accompanied by another couple.
The male companion of the other couple was wounded by the assassin.
Both presidents had a son die during their presidency.
Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre; Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in a Lincoln automobile, made by Ford.
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to the theatre; Kennedy had a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln who warned him not to go to Dallas.
Both presidents' last names have 7 letters.
Both presidents have five syllables in their full name (which counts Kennedy's middle initial).
There are 6 letters in each Johnson's first name.
Booth ran from a theatre to a warehouse; Oswald ran from a warehouse to a theatre.
Both assassins have 3-word and 15-letter names.
Both assassins were born in the late '30s.
Both assassins were southerners who sympathized with organizations that were adversarial to the United States.
Both assassins were killed within the same calendar month before they could be put on trial.
Both assassins were killed in states located immediately west of the states of their births.
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