President John F Kennedy was murdered by enemies within his own government in a ‘political’ hit, according to his long-time personal secretary.
The shocking conclusion was found in a previously unpublished document written by Evelyn Lincoln, who was JFK’s White House gatekeeper, and was sitting in the third car of his motorcade when he was shot.
Jefferson Morley, editor of JFK Facts, and a renowned expert on the assassination, said because Lincoln was so close to Kennedy her thinking may well have reflected how he would have viewed his own assassination.
He told the Daily Mail: ‘She was a very loyal person. She had turned her mind and her work to him, she served him. And so, yes, I think this thinking does reflect how he would think about this event himself.’
Lincoln died in 1995, aged 85, and is buried in Arlington Cemetery. During her lifetime, she never revealed her true opinion of what lay behind her boss’s death in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
But in an 11-page addendum to an unpublished memoir, she laid out in detail the reasons why she believed Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone gunman.
Instead, she concluded that JFK was the victim of a complex conspiracy planned by elements within the US government.
She wrote: ‘From the catbird seat that I had during my 12 years as John F. Kennedy’s Personal Secretary I would have to say that, in my opinion, President Kennedy’s death in Dallas, Texas, was a deliberate professional political murder, planned by a group in government who wanted him removed from office.’
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