Lincoln and Kennedy.....................SC

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Shortly before he departed for Dallas in November 1963, President John Kennedy’s secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, warned him not to go. Kennedy dismissed her premonition of tragic consequences. On November 22, he was slain when Lee Harvey Oswald fired a bolt-action, Italian carbine from a window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.

The number of curious parallels between the American Presidents John Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln, also assassinated after a premonition warning of his death, strain the bounds of coincidence. Lincoln, for example, had been elected president on November 6, 1869, Kennedy on November 8, 1960. Both had also first been elected to Congress 100 years apart, Lincoln in 1846, Kennedy in 1946. The two men who succeeded them as president were also born a century apart, and their assassins were born 101 years apart.

Lincoln was shot in the head from behind, in a theatre, and his assassin fled to a barn. Kennedy was hit in the head from the rear, from a warehouse, and his assassin fled to a theatre. Both assassins were killed before they could come to trail. Both Kennedy and Lincoln were shot on a Friday, in the presence of their wives. Lincoln had been shot in a Ford’s Theatre, and Kennedy in a Lincoln made by the Ford Motor Company.

Both Presidents foresaw their own deaths. Lincoln told a guard on the day he was assassinated that there were "man who want to take my life…. And I have no doubt they will do it…if it is to be done, it is impossible to prevent it."

A few hours before he was felled by Oswald’s bullets, Kennedy said to his wife and personal adviser, "if somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?"



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