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TIL JFK and Lincoln were elected 100 yrs. apart.Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln,Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy. Lincoln was shot in a teather and his assassin was cornered in a warehouse,Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin captured in a theater.

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