40 years after RFK's death, questions linger

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/3/8 | Michael Taylor

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An intriguing angle on RFK’s assassination:

http://www.amazon.com/Nemesis-Aristotle-Onassis-Triangle-Kennedys/dp/0060580542/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212518309&sr=1-3

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1. Lincoln was elected president in 1860, Kennedy in 1960. 2. Both Lincoln and Kennedy were elected president after each had unsuccessfully sought to get the vice presidential nomination of their party - Lincoln in 1856, Kennedy in 1956. 3. Both Lincoln and Kennedy had served in the U.S. House of Representatives - Lincoln elected in 1846, Kennedy in 1946. 4. The man Lincoln defeated to become President, Stephen Douglas, was born in 1813. The man Kennedy defeated to become President, Richard Nixon, was born in 1913. 5. Both Lincoln and Kennedy, while in their thirties, married a pretty, sophisticated twenty- four-year-old brunette who spoke French fluently. 6. Both Lincoln and Kennedy had sons who died during their presidency - Lincoln’s son William dying at the age of eleven, Kennedy’s son Patrick dying two days after his birth. 7. Both sought equality for blacks but their efforts failed during their lives, the seeds only bearing fruit shortly after their deaths, in Lincoln’s case with the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment, in Kennedy’s case with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 8. Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln. Contrary to a commonly held belief, Lincoln’s secretary was not named Kennedy. Lincoln’s main secretary was John G. Nicolay. His only other secretary was John Hay. 9. Both Lincoln and Kennedy were murdered on Friday. 10. Both were shot in the head. 11. Both were seated at the time they were shot. 12. Both were shot once in the head. 13. Both were shot by assassins who were to their right rear. 14. Both Lincoln and Kennedy’s wives were seated next to them at the time they were shot. Mrs. Lincoln was seated to Lincoln’s right, Mrs. Kennedy to Kennedy’s left. 15. Each wife, after her husband was shot in the head, cradled his head in her lap. 16. Both Lincoln and Kennedy were in the presence of another couple, and in each case the man was also wounded by the assassin. (Connally by gunshot, Major Henry R. Rathbone when Booth stabbed him as Rathbone lunged at Booth after Booth shot Lincoln). 17. Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theater. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln limousine (manufactured by Ford Motor Company). 18. Though both Lincoln and Kennedy were shot in the head, which normally causes immediate death, neither died instantly, and feverish efforts to resuscitate them were made by several physicians, both presidents responding with increased though weak pulse before expiring. 19. On the day he was killed Lincoln said there were those who wanted him dead: “If it is to be done, it is impossible to prevent it.” On the day of Kennedy’s murder he told Jackie and an aide how easy it would be for someone to shoot him from a “high building with a high powered rifle, and there’s nothing anybody can do.” 20. Unlike 99 percent of the population, both presidential assassins, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, were known by their three names. (It is frequently stated that Booth was born in 1839, and Oswald in 1939, but Booth was born in 1838). 21. Both Booth and Oswald were shot and killed before they were brought to trial. 22. Both Booth and Oswald were killed by one shot from a revolver. (Nearly all Lincoln- Kennedy coincidence lists say that “Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, shot Lincoln in a theater, then fled to a warehouse. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater.” But Booth fled on horseback to the Maryland home of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who treated Booth’s broken left leg. Booth was shot to death by a Union sergeant while in a burning barn in Virginia twelve days after he shot Lincoln). 23. Both Lincoln’s and Kennedy’s successors were named Johnson. 24. Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, was born in 1808, and Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, in 1908. 25. Both Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson were southern Democrats. (Oswald was from a southern state but Booth was from Maryland, a border state which was part of the union during the Civil War). 26. Both Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson had served as United States seantors. 27.The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. 28. The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald each contain fifteen letters. 29. The names Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each contain thirteen letters.