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Lincoln Kennedy coincidences
Popular myth relates a number of [[coincidence|coincidences]] having to do with [[United States of America|US]] [[Presidents of the United States of America|Presidents]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[John F Kennedy]]. Some are true but inconsequential; others are fabrications or simply wrong.
While finding obscure correlations between famous people as well as their 'debunking' is an entertaining pastime for some, often the practice is taken too seriously.  

== Family ==
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Some items are inaccurate/misleading. for example:
* There is no record of a Lincoln secretary named Kennedy.
* Neither President, coincidentally, was particularly concerned with [[civil rights]].

In [[1992]], the ''[[Skeptical Inquirer]]'' ran a "Spooky Presidential Coincidences Contest".  One winner found a series of sixteen similar coincidences between Kennedy and former [[Mexico|Mexican]] President [[
AÁlvaro Obregón]], while the other came up with similar lists for twenty-one pairs of US Presidents. [http://www.csicop.org/si/9809/coincidence.html]

* Booth was part of a conspiracy while Oswald was found to have acted alone

== External link ==
* [http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm Snopes article about this subject]


[[Category:Abraham Lincoln]]