JOHN F. KENNEDY'S PERSONAL SECRETARY LISTS SUSPECTS IN HIS MURDER
EVELYN LINCOLN (1909 - 1995) Personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the U.S. Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination in Dallas. Mrs. Lincoln was privy to all of Kennedy's notes, letters and meeting, and was undoubtedly his closest aide. She was present in the motorcade when Kennedy was assassinated, and flew in Air Force One when it carried the late president's body back to Washington. We offer an astounding, most revealing set of notes entirely in Mrs. Lincoln's hand, what she described as a list of potential suspects in the murder of John F. Kennedy, composed by her during the return flight to Washington on the day of the assassination, November 22, 1963. The list, on an otherwise plain octavo sheet of paper, reads in order: "Lyndon [Johnson] KKK Dixiecrats [Teamster leader Jimmy] Hoffa John Birch Society Nixon [President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh] Diem Rightist CIA in Cuban fiasco Dictators Communists". When the paper is inverted, jumbled notes appear: "Denny See mag of WH sq Over 68102" which we believe were written prior to Mrs. Lincoln's list. Much later, Mrs. Lincoln noted on the verso: "There is no end to the list of suspected conspirators to Pres. Kennedy murder. Many factions had their reasons for wanting the young president dead. That fact alone illustrates how the world suffers from a congenital proclivity to violence". Fine condition. This item was given by Mrs. Lincoln to her close friend and noted Kennedy collector Robert White, who over the years accumulated a vast collection of Kennedy letters and memorabilia from Mrs. Lincoln. She related to him how she had penned this list aboard Air Force One, and White in turn related her recollection to the consignor of this item at the time of its sale. Interestingly, common knowledge is that Lee Harvey Oswald was an ardent communist, the last suspect on Mrs. Lincoln's list, but the majority of conspiracy theorists believe that Lyndon Johnson or the Mob, with Kennedy-hater Jimmy Hoffa's complete support, ordered Kennedy's execution. An incredible relevatory piece of political history, never before offered for public sale. Estimate $ 20,000-30,000
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A Chilling Relic From the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy -- Section of the Leather Seat Upon Which JFK & the First Lady Sat When He Was Shot -- With Letter of Provenance -- "…The spots on the leather are the dried blood of our beloved President John F. Kennedy…"
A Chilling Relic From the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy -- Section of the Leather Seat Upon Which JFK & the First Lady Sat When He Was Shot -- With Letter of Provenance -- "…The spots on the leather are the dried blood of our beloved President John F. Kennedy…"
Almost 50 years later, the story of the deadly shots fired from a sixth-floor perch in Dallas still begins at the Cellar nightclub in Fort Worth.
Former Cellar workers shed no further light Sunday on their wee-hours work serving Secret Service agents the night before the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
But in a new documentary about the 1960s downtown counterculture nightclub, guitarist Arvel Stricklin summed up the view from the bandstand: "I know I saw a lot of guys in suits. And the party went on until 6 a.m."
The ensuing investigation provided just one of the Cellar's many headlines during its 13-year run as a late-night haven.
Former musicians and workers gathered Sunday at the Fort Worth Central Library to see the first cut of the forthcoming Cellar documentary, named for a slogan stenciled on the club wall: You Must Be Weird or You Wouldn't Be Here.
Fort Worth filmmaker Giles McCrary interviewed them for the video, due to be released in spring. (A short video clip is at www.gilesvid.com.)
To explain, the Cellar was where Fort Worth's rowdy past met up with the peace-and-love '60s.
Guests danced to Jimmie Vaughan or the future ZZ Top, drank Everclear cocktails from servers wearing only bras and panties -- and then came back the next night to do it all again.
On Nov. 21, 1963, visiting reporters and Secret Service agents were looking for someplace to have fun after the Kennedys bedded down in what is now the Hilton Fort Worth.
The party went to a membership club and then, after midnight, to the Cellar, 1001 Main St.
As former Star-Telegram reporter Bob Schieffer wrote in This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV, "It seemed a good idea at the time and must have been quite an evening. I remember that we stayed long enough for some of the Easterners to see their first Fort Worth sunrise."
Witnesses and guests later told investigators that some of the seven night-owl agents drank at the private club but that no one drank at the Cellar.
(Supposedly, those agents had other assignments away from the Dallas motorcade.)
But as former Cellar manager Jimmy Hill tells the camera in You Must Be Weird: "That wasn't grapefruit juice!"
We haven't heard the last story yet from the Cellar.
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Life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the politics behind the Kennedy assassination, and the framing of Oswald that continues to this day. A cry for justice for Oswald and his family. Expanded version of "Justice for Lee Harvey Oswald." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwbOWLs82M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb46jE6xHrs Lee Harvey Oswald: Accused -- Kennedy's Enemies: Ignored JFK--John F Kennedy -- was not assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was innocent. The SAME day Kennedy was shot, and Oswald arrested ,J Edgar Hoover told the FBI to stop looking for anybody else --he said they had their man. Judyth Vary Baker and CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee are on film in this short video about Kennedy's many enemies.
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