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Permalink Reply by Rfitzz on November 3, 2018 at 2:00pm

In fact, yes, the Jan 18th letter is typed by the same secretary "mb" as mine...   just fyi: this letter sold in 2011 for $1500.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 3, 2018 at 2:08pm

It looks to me like the person signed both labeled questionable and yours.

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Permalink Reply by Rfitzz on November 4, 2018 at 9:34am

I agree, certainly by the same person.  Here is where it gets a little fuzzy for me:  Another letter, signed the very same day as mine, Jan 11th, typed by "el" Evelyn Lincoln, yet has the same exact signature as my Jan 11th and the Jan 18th example.  Would a letter typed by "el" be signed by "mb", or vice versa ? Or was it Kennedy who signed all of them ?  I know there are people who have expressed their belief that the "person who typed it is the person who signed it"... this would certainly poke a hole in that theory, no ? This just gets more and more confusing as the "el" letter would certainly fall in to Andreas' "questionable" category...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 4, 2018 at 12:54pm

Someone could have typed it and someone else signed it in some cases. The same person signed all three of those, that's obvious.

What seems likely to me is that Evelyn Lincoln signed them all for two reasons: First, to proof any letter typed by someone else. Second, for as much consistency as possible. But I haven't closely studied JFK's signature and don't know the inner workings of his office, so what I said simply makes sense to me.

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