Lincoln and Kennedy

When I was in fourth grade my teacher handed out a sheet that had some fun-facts that related presidents Kennedy and Lincoln. I lost that paper almost immediately (like most fourth graders would) and over the years since I've thought about it here and there.

This morning while testing our new web content filter I was randomly clicking around and landed on a web page that had some (if not all) of these fun-facts:

• Abe was elected to Congress in 1846
• John was elected to Congress in 1946

• Abe was elected President in 1860
• John was elected President in 1960

• Both were concerned with civil rights
• Both lost children while living in the White House
• Both were shot on a Friday
• Both shot in the head
• Both shot by southerners
  • John Wilkes Booth, Abe's shooter, was born in 1839
  • Lee Harvey Oswald, John's shooter, was born in 1939
  • Both assassins known by 3 names
    • Both names contain 15 letters
• Both succeeded by southerners named Johnson
  • Andrew Johnson, Abe's successor, was born in 1808
  • Lyndon Johnson, John's successor, was born in 1908

• Lincoln was shot at a theater named 'Ford'
• Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln' and made by 'Ford'
• Abe was shot in a theater and JWB ran and hid in a warehouse
• John was shot from a warehouse and LHO ran and hid in a theater
• Both assassins were killed before their trials

• Abe was in Monroe, Maryland the week before he died
• John was with Marilyn Monroe the week before he died
  

Fascinating huh? I stole all of this from The OfficeSpam Blog.