Answer to December 2003 Newsletter Brain Teaser:

There IS no coincidence. JFK was assassinated in 1963. If a person's year of birth is added to the age this person was in 1963 the result will always be 1,963. The same thing will occur if the year in which an activity began is added to the number of years that this activity had been going on in 1963. 2 X 1,963 is not a particularly astonishing 3,926