Operation Assassination: Lincolnisms vs. Kennedyms - Part X

We're celebrating Operation Assassination, a trivia-laden white paper I compiled 25 years ago that indirectly spawned this blog. In 2000, I combined my original paper with material I found online that I published on a GeoCities account. As part of this retrospect, I revisited what I found and republished the information.

Odds and Ends

We end with some tidbits that didn't fit well anywhere else:

1. Booth and Oswald were born 100 years apart
1. No, they weren't. Booth was born in 1838, and Oswald arrived in 1939.
2. The caisson carrying their coffins was only used for them
1. No, it was also used for FDR
3. Both were lawyers
1. No, Lincoln was a practicing attorney before being a representative. Kennedy, however, was not a lawyer. He majored in Political Science at Harvard
4. Only Lincoln was a "wartime" President
1. Well, Kennedy was president during the beginning of the US's large-scale involvement in VietNam

Plus --

Kennedy was laid in state on Sunday, November 24, 1963, in the Capitol rotunda. The rotunda, constructed in 1856 and completed in 1863, was in its centennial year. Construction was briefly halted at the onset of the Civil War but continued as a symbol of continuity for the Citizens of the Union at Abraham Lincoln's insistence.

Of all the US coins currently in circulation, only the Lincoln penny and the Kenndey half dollar did not have both the front and back designed by the same man. Frank Gasparro designed the reverse side of the Lincoln penny and the Kennedy half dollar. The Lincoln penny was first minted in 1909, and the reverse changed to the Gasparro design in 1959. The Kennedy half dollar was first minted in 1964.

A dollar bill issued from the Dallas Mint only two weeks before Kennedy was assassinated bears some interesting facts. Since Dallas is the location of the 11th and 12th Federal Reserve Bank Districts, the bill bears the letter K, the 11th letter of the alphabet, and the number 11 appears in each corner. The serial number begins with K and ends with A, which supposedly stands for "Kennedy Assassination." November is the eleventh month in the year - the 11th month and 2 elevens make 22. The series number is 1963. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot on November 11, 1963.

Ed. Note — Who. The. Heck. Comes. Up. With. This?

Researchers were allowed to read previously unseen White House phone logs (c.1992-93). One of the first entrees was from Mrs. Marguerite Oswald on January 26, 1961. Researchers theorize that Lee Harvey Oswald's mother had been in Washington and tried to reach the president about her son, who had 'disappeared' in Russia.