1- Both presidents led their countries during national crises. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, while Sadat led Egypt during the Yom Kippur War.
2- Both leaders made bold decisions that deeply divided their societies. Lincoln moved toward ending slavery, while Sadat signed the Camp David Accords, and these two causes were the reasons of their assassinations.
3- Both were killed sitting in public places. Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre and Sadat during a military parade in Nasr City's platform.
4- Neither expected the attack. Both were in seemingly secure environments, also they died by gunshot wounds and both didn’t die instantly.
5- The assassins were insiders. John Wilkes Booth was a known actor, while Khalid Islambouli was an officer and part of the military parade.
6- Both assassinations were driven by ideology, not personal motives. Booth supported the Confederacy, while Sadat’s killers opposed his political and religious approach.
7- Both assassins believed they were heroes serving a higher cause and both saw their president as a tyrant.
8- Both groups of conspirators were of fanatic young men.
9- Both presidents’ wives were sitting near them.
10- Lincoln was shot at the anniversary of the American Civil War, while Sadat was shot during the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.
11- John Wilkes Booth shouted: “Sic semper tyrannis!”
Khalid Islambouli shouted: “Death to the Pharaoh!”
12- Both assassinations were part of larger conspiracies, not isolated acts.
13- After Lincoln’s assassination, four conspirators were executed + Mary Surratt (conspirator host and instigator)
After Sadat’s assassination, four conspirators were executed + Abdel Salam Farag (conspirator host and instigator)
14- Not all participants were executed. Some conspirators in both cases were imprisoned instead.
15- Both were succeeded by vice presidents.
by ismaeil-de-paynes
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There are more similarities between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassination
16- Both had facial hair
Anwar Sadat drove a Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln drove a Sadat 😐 True story I just made up 😒
I might dispute #5. To use a more modern analogy, think of the Booth brothers as the Baldwin Brothers. Edwin was like Alec, and John Wilkes was more like…Stephen I suppose.
John Wilkes had also been primarily working in the South for years since Edwin had the more profitable and populated north. By 1865 John Wilkes would only be considered an insider in some southern-only circles, and anyone who knew him(or of him) would have considered it very odd for him to be around Lincoln even at a theater.
19. Both bleed after being shot