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An american leaflet has been looking into the phenomenon of history repeating itself. It comes up with this amazing coincidence:

Both President Kennedy and Lincoln were concerned with civil rights. Lincoln was elected in 1860, Kennedy in 1960.

Both their wives lost children through death while in the White House.

Both were killed on a Friday, in the presence of their wives, and both were shot in the head from behind.

Their successors, both named Johnson, were Southern Democrats, both in the senate. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808, Lyndon Johnson in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's killer was born in 1839, Lee Harvey Oswald in 1939. Both were Southerners favouring unpopular ideas. And both were assassinated before their trials.

Lincoln's secretary, whose name was Kennedy, advised him not to go to the theatre. Kennedy's Secretary, whose name was Lincoln, advised him not to go to the Dallas.

John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and ran to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theatre.