Synchronism

BOTH LINCOLN AND KENNEDY WERE ELECTED TO THE PRESIDENCY EXACTLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS APART, IN 1860 AND 1960.

BOTH LINCOLN AND KENNEDY EACH HAD TO BURY A CHILD WHO HAD DIED DURING THEIR OCCUPANCY OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN´S SECRETARY WAS NAMED KENNEDY. PRESIDENT KENNEDY´S SECRETARY WAS NAMED LINCOLN.

EACH OF THEIR SECRETARIES ADVISED THEM NOT TO GO TO THE PLACES WHERE THEY WERE ASSASSINATED: LINCOLN TO THE THEATRE, KENNEDY TO DALLAS, TEXAS.

BOTH WERE ASSASSINATED IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR WIVES BY GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD.

THE VICE PRESIDENTS WHO SUCCEEDED THE ASSASSINATED PRESIDENTS WERE BOTH FORMER SENATORS, BOTH FROM THE SOUTH, AND BOTH NAMED JOHNSON.

BOTH VICE PRESIDENTS, ANDREW JOHNSON AND LYNDON JOHNSON, WERE BORN EXACTLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS APART, IN 1808 AND 1908.

BOTH ASSASSINS HAD THREE NAMES TOTALING FIFTEEN LETTERS: JOHN WILKES BOOTH AND LEE HARVEY OSWALD.

BOTH ASSASSINS WERE BORN ONE HUNDRED YEARS APART, IN 1839 AND 1939.

BOOTH SHOT LINCOLN IN A THEATER AND RAN TO A WAREHOUSE. OSWALD SHOT KENNEDY FROM HIS PERCH IN A WAREHOUSE AND RAN TO A THEATRE.

BOTH ASSASSINS WERE KILLED BEFORE THEY WERE BROUGHT TO TRIAL.

LINCOLN AND KENNEDY BOTH LEFT A LEGACY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS.

BOTH PRESIDENTS´ LAST NAMES CONTAIN SEVEN LETTERS.