THEORIES: This list of suspects – jotted down by JFK secretary Evelyn Lincoln (here with him and JFK Jr.) after the assassination – is up for sale.
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John F. Kennedy’s closest aide was the queen of conspiracy theorists.
Evelyn Lincoln, his personal secretary, wrote down a list of sus pects in her beloved boss’ assassi nation — and it included both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
The never-before-seen personal note, scribbled by Lincoln as she sat aboard Air Force One return ing to Washington on the day of JFK’s death, lists those she thought might be behind the pres ident’s murder.
The note, estimated to be worth $30,000, is now on the auction block.
Lincoln was Kennedy’s per sonal secretary from 1953 until his death on Nov. 22, 1963, and was riding in the Dallas motorcade that fateful day. She died in 1995 at age 85.
Her note listed “Lyndon, KKK, Dixiecrats, [Teamsters boss Jimmy] Hoffa, [the] John Birch Society, Nixon, [South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh] Diem,Rightist, CIA in Cuban fiasco, Dictators [and] Communists.”
On the back of the list is another note, written more than 20 years later when she passed on her letters to Kennedy collector Robert White.
“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,” it reads.
The 10-month Warren Commission investigation concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating the president.
The note, consigned by the Gettysburg Museum of History, will be auctioned by Alexander Autographs in Stamford, Conn., on Thursday.