Conspiracy Theory

Mystery, statistical coincidence or alien plot? You be the judge.

• 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.
   
• The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
   
• Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
  Both their wives lost their children while living in the White House.
   
• Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
  Both were shot in the head.
  Both were shot in the presence of their wives.
   
• The Secretary of each President warned them not to go to the theatre and to Dallas, respectively.
   
• Lincoln's Secretary was named Kennedy.
  Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.
   
• Both were assassinated by Southerners.
  Both were succeeded by Southerners.
  Both successors were named Johnson.
   
• Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, 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 have 15 letters.
   
• Booth ran from the theatre and was captured in a warehouse.
  Oswald ran from the warehouse and was captured in a theatre.
   
• To cap it all off, Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.