TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, August 24, 1994. Letter to a Kennedy enthusiast. In part: “You wanted to know if there was any truth in my warning Kennedy not to go to Dallas. On November 20, 1963 my husband, Abe, was eating lunch at the Traders Vic restaurant in the Capitol Hilton Hotel, when he heard some men at a table behind him discussing Kennedy and an assassination in Dallas on November 23rd. Abe immediately called me at my office just outside of Kennedy’s Oval Office and told me what he had heard and told me that I should tell President Kennedy about the conversation and that he should not go to Dallas. After hanging up the telephone I rushed into the Oval Office and told Kennedy about Abe’s warning and what he had heard. Kennedy looked at me and said, ‘Miz Lincoln, I have to live my life. If they are going to get me, they will get me in church.’ And he went to Dallas.” In fine condition. Like any president, death threats were not out of the ordinary for JFK, so his nonchalant reaction is not surprising. RR Auction COA.
