# Remember the Kennedy-Kerry Coincidences? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-kennedy-kerry-coincidences/785284 "2017-04-26T13:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-kennedy-kerry-coincidences/785284/1 "2017-04-26T13:45:00Z")
Just something I dug up on the internet recently. But does anyone remember the 2004 presidential election? George W. Bush was up for reelection. And he ran against John Kerry. Some people thought there were some pretty amazing coincidence surrounding them. So did I. Anyways, this guy on the internet came up with some too. As far as I know, his website is not copyrighted: \*1. John Kerry has the same initials as John Kennedy. (John F. Kerry & John F. Kennedy) 1. There is a double “r” in Kerry and a double “n” in Kennedy. 2. Kerry and Kennedy begins with “k” and end with “y”. 3. Kennedy was born Massachusetts. Kerry represents Massachusetts. 4. Kennedy was Roman Catholic. Kerry is Roman Catholic. 5. People are saying that both John Kerry and John Edwards remind them of John and Robert Kennedy. 6. John Edwards gre up in Robbins, NC. The first letters are also short for Robert. 7. Kennedy has 7 letters and Edwards has 7 letters. 8. John Kennedy was a senator before being elected president and both Edwards and Kerry are senators. 9. There are a total of 3 senators running for president. (John Edwards, John Kerry & Joseph Lieberman) John Kennedy’s father was named “Joseph”. 10. John Kennedy’s brother is named “Edward” Kennedy and he is endorsing John Kerry. 11. Edwards and Kerry both have the same first name (thats two Johns) John Kennedy’s son was known as “John-John”. 12. John Kennedy was known as “Jack”. John Edwards has a son named “Jack”. 13. John Kennedy had a sister named “Kathleen”. John Edwards has a daughter named “Catherine”. 14. John Edwards has a mother named “Bobbie” and a father named “Wallace”. Robert or “Bobby” Kennedy ran for president against George “Wallace” in 1968. 15. John Kennedy had a sister named Eunice “Mary” Kennedy. John Kennedy’s mother was named Rose “Elizabeth” Fitzgerald. John Kennedy had a sister named Jean “Ann” Kennedy. The middle names of these women are the names of John Edward’s wife. “Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards”. 16. Abraham Lincoln’s Sister-in-law was also named “Elizabeth Edwards” Lincoln Wife was named “Mary Ann Lincoln” 17. Abraham Lincoln had two sons named “Robert” and “Edward” Robert (Lincoln’s son) married “ Mary Eunice Harlan” John Kennedy’s sister was named “Eunice Mary Kennedy” 18. (Lincoln’s son) Robert’s 2nd son Abraham was known as “Jack” just as John Kennedy and John Edward’s son. 19. Robert Kennedy had a daughter named Mary “Kerry” Kennedy. 20. The wives of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy spoke fluent French. John Kerry’s wife speaks fluent French. 21. Going to the moon was brought up during the Kennedy years. Going to the moon was brought up during John Edwards and John Kerry’s campaign. 22. The two NFL teams that have made it to the 2004 super bowl are the Carolina Panthers of North Carolina and the New England Patriots of Massachusetts. John Edwards is senator for North Carolina and John Kerry is senator for Massachusetts.\* [https://sites.google.com/site/fracktor/coincidence](https://sites.google.com/site/fracktor/coincidence) Anyways, here’s my own addition to the list: _24. Andrew Jackson (who came after John Q. Adams [cf. the [Adams-Bush Coincidences](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440124)]) looks just like John Kerry, with his wild hair, and rectangular face (and other facial similarities). I thought for this reason, John Kerry would beat George W. Bush in 2004 . But he didn’t. So much for that._ Yeah, I really do think a lot of these people got their ideas from me, believe it or not. I even came up with the Adams-Bush Coincidences election night of 2000, when the race was still being contested. I also may have been the first to come up with the Kennedy-Kerry ones. Does anyone else have anything to add to the list? Criticisms will be appreciated too. I know some coincidences are just that, purely coincidental. Also, does anyone have any coincidences of their own to add? I have been searching the internet in vain to find some President Trump coincidences. I’d love hearing those, if anyone has any to submit:). :):):): ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-kennedy-kerry-coincidences/785284/2 "2017-04-26T17:46:48Z")
John Kennedy had wealth. John Kerry married into wealth, twice. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-kennedy-kerry-coincidences/785284/3 "2017-04-26T19:07:50Z")
Kennedy and Kerry were both decorated veterans. They both served in the Navy and commanded small craft. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-kennedy-kerry-coincidences/785284/4 "2017-04-27T04:48:47Z")
It’s relatively easy to find coincidences between any two people. It’s also easy to ignore their far greater number of mismatches. [http://www.csicop.org/si/show/coincidences\_remarkable\_or\_random](http://www.csicop.org/si/show/coincidences_remarkable_or_random) > [@](#): > > Back in 1992, the Skeptical Inquirer held a Spooky Presidential Coincidences Contest, in response to Ann Landers printing “for the zillionth time” a list of chilling parallels between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. The task was for readers to come up with their own list of coincidences between other pairs of presidents. There were two contest winners, Arturo Magidin of Mexico City, and Chris Fishel, a student at the University of Virginia. Magidin came up with sixteen stunning coincidences between Kennedy and former Mexican President Alvaro Obregón, while Fishel managed to come up with lists of coincidences between no fewer than twenty-one different pairs of U.S. presidents. > > A few examples from Magidin’s list: Both “Kennedy” and “Obregón” have seven letters each; each was assassinated; both their assassins had three names and died shortly after killing the president; Kennedy and Obregón were both married in years ending in 3, each had a son who died shortly after birth, and both came from large families and died in their forties. > > Fishel came up with dozens of coincidences; here are a few between Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Both men served two full terms; both their wives died before they became president; each had six-letter first names; both were in debt at the time of their deaths; each had a state capital named after him, and both their predecessors refused to attend their inaugurations. [For more information and the full lists, see SI Spring 1992, 16(3); and Winter 1993, 17(2).] ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-kennedy-kerry-coincidences/785284/5 "2017-04-27T05:11:22Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > It’s relatively easy to find coincidences between any two people. It’s even easier when you look for coincidences that connect John Kerry, John Kennedy, John Edwards, Robert Kennedy, and Abraham Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-kennedy-kerry-coincidences/785284/6 "2017-04-27T05:18:36Z")
Here’s another one for the OP’s list: John Kennedy’s father and John Kerry’s father both served in diplomatic posts. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-kennedy-kerry-coincidences/785284/7 "2017-04-27T18:00:36Z")
Yeah, and they were both carbon-based life forms too. With all 92 naturally-occurring elements in the Periodic Table to choose from, top that!