What Are The Key Coincidences In 'The Lincoln Kennedy Coincidences'?

One of the eeriest things about 'The Lincoln Kennedy Coincidences' is how history seems to rhyme in the most unsettling ways. Both presidents were elected to Congress in '46—Lincoln in 1846, Kennedy in 1946. They both had vice presidents named Johnson who succeeded them after their assassinations, and both of those Johnsons were Southern Democrats born in '08. Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre; Kennedy was shot in a Ford Lincoln car. The list goes on—like their successors both being sworn in on airplanes, or how Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who warned him not to go to the theatre, while Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who advised against Dallas. It’s not just a handful of similarities; it’s a cascade of them, almost like some cosmic prankster lined up the dominoes just to mess with us.

What really gives me chills, though, is how their deaths mirrored each other in timing and symbolism. Lincoln was shot on a Friday, Kennedy on a Friday. Lincoln was assassinated by a man who fled to a theater and was later caught in a warehouse; Kennedy’s killer hid in a theater before being caught in a warehouse. Even their names—Lincoln and Kennedy—both have seven letters. Some people wave it off as statistical noise, but when you stack them up, it’s hard not to feel like there’s something uncanny at play. Maybe it’s just the human brain craving patterns, but I’ve always wondered if these coincidences are history’s way of winking at us.