The Lincoln-Kennedy Paradox

🕯️ The Lincoln–Kennedy Coincidences Will Never Not Be Creepy 🕯️

The lives and deaths of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are separated by a century—but somehow mirror each other in unsettling ways.

• Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846

• Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946

• Lincoln was elected President in 1860

• Kennedy was elected President in 1960

Exactly 100 years apart.

Both men were deeply involved in civil rights issues during times of extreme national tension.

Both lost children while living in the White House.

Both were assassinated on a Friday.

Both were shot in the head, in public, with their wives beside them.

Lincoln was shot in Ford Theater.

Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln Ford vehicle.

Both were succeeded by a Vice President named Johnson:

• Andrew Johnson (born 1808)

• Lyndon B. Johnson (born 1908)

—again, 100 years apart.

Both assassins are remembered by three names:

• John Wilkes Booth

• Lee Harvey Oswald

Each full name contains 15 letters.

Neither assassin lived to stand trial.

Booth, the man who shot Lincoln, fled from the theater and hid in a warehouse.

Oswald, the man who shot Kennedy, fled from the warehouse and hid in a theater.

Even more bizarre?

Lincoln was warned not to go to the theater, by his secretary named Kennedy.

Kennedy was warned not to go to Dallas, by his secretary named Lincoln.

Historians say these are coincidences—our brains naturally searching for patterns.

But when the patterns line up this clean, people can’t help but wonder…

Is it just chance?

Or does history echo itself in ways we don’t fully understand?