Linda Lee Cadwell
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Linda Lee Cadwell (1945–), a.k.a. Linda Emery, is the widow of martial arts master Bruce Lee, founder of Jeet Kune Do. She was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington, USA.
She met Bruce Lee while in high school and Bruce Lee was attending the University of Washington at the time. Eventually, she became one of Bruce Lee's Kung Fu students. As a pre-medical student, she attended the University of Washington, the same university Bruce Lee went to as a philosophy major.
She continued to take Kung Fu lessons from Bruce Lee while attending college. They married on August 17, 1964, a few credits short of graduation from the University of Washington. Bruce Lee had opened his own Kung Fu school at the time and was teaching Jeet Kune Do. They had two children together, Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee. Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973; the exact details of Bruce Lee's death are controversial.
She was briefly married to a man named Tom Bleecker, beginning in 1988, but they divorced in 1990. She married Bruce Cadwell in 1991. Tragically, her son Brandon Lee, an actor like his father, died on a movie set while filming The Crow on March 31, 1993, 20 years after his father's death. Cadwell is a teacher who has dedicated her life to preserving the art and philosophy of the man whose impact on martial arts is legendary: Bruce Lee.
Books
Linda wrote the 1975 book Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew (ISBN 0446894079), on which the 1993 feature film was based.External link
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