- Evelyn Lincoln
Evelyn Maurine Norton Lincoln (
June 25 ,1909 –May 11 ,1995 ) was the personalsecretary toJohn F. Kennedy from his election to theUnited States Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination inDallas . Mrs. Lincoln, who was in themotorcade when Kennedy was assassinated, made it a point to visit Kennedy's grave atArlington National Cemetery every year afterward on the anniversary of his death.Personal
She was born Evelyn Maurine Norton on a farm in
Polk County, Nebraska . Her father wasJohn N. Norton , a member of theUnited States House of Representatives . Evelyn married Harold W. Lincoln in 1930, and moved toChevy Chase, Maryland .In 1968 she wrote a book, "Kennedy and Johnson" in which she wrote that President Kennedy had told her that
Lyndon B. Johnson would be replaced asVice President of the United States . Lincoln wrote of thatNovember 19 ,1963 conversation, just before the assassination of President Kennedy,According to the National Archives, Lincoln gave away or sold many of Kennedy's documents and artifacts that she had been entrusted to collect after Kennedy's assassination. In 2005, a legal settlement was reached that enabled the National Archives, the Kennedy Library, and Caroline Kennedy to recover thousands of pages of documents and other items that had been improperly sold or given away by Lincoln.
Lincoln died at
Georgetown University Hospital in 1995, after complications that followed surgery forcancer . Her ashes were placed in a niche in asepulcher at Arlington National Cemetery.Books
Mrs. Lincoln was the author of two books:
* "My 12 Years With John F. Kennedy"
* "Kennedy and Johnson", 1968ources
[http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0195159209&id=Cowr5eUcnigC&num=20&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&sig=8H1U0wvbzDMB7bIa14ezGiWrLvM Robert Dallek, "Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President", p. 142 (2003)(Oxford University Press)]
James M. Roth, Reclaiming Pieces of Camelot: How NARA and the JFK Library Recovered Missing Kennedy Documents and Artifacts, Prologue Magazine, Summer 2006, Vol. 38, No. 2.
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