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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1052

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald "Jack" (JFK) (1917-1963). Thirty-fifth President of the United States (1961-1963), WW II torpedo boat commander, Representative, Senator for the State of Massachusetts, youngest president to serve, first and only Catholic president, and only one to win the Pulitzer Prize; assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX creating a traumatic watershed in modern American history. Associated Press (AP) Wire Copy of the Day of the Assassination and night before. Significant amount of wire copy from November 22, 1963 and night before covering a 24 hour+ period. Includes many of the bulletins and summaries of the day's events and an Advance of the speech Kennedy never delivered in Dallas. Havana Radio commented on the crash of a U-2 reconnaissance plane off Florida Wednesday… President Kennedy has been warmly received at his first two stops on a three-day tour of Texas…The Reverend Martin Luther King has told Danville, Virginia negroes to prepare for what he termed massive, but non-violent, direct action in the battle for equal rights. At the same time, he warned city officials: "We mean business"'…A bedragged [sic] Russian diplomat is expelled from the Congo… Kennedy said U.S. will get ahead of Russia in space next month when Americans fire what he called the largest rocket booster in the world… A sirloin steak luncheon in Dallas also on President Kennedy's agenda, a diocesan representative said Kennedy didn't need special dispensation on this meatless day…twisters in Shreveport. Then: AP 109 - "(Dallas) - President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas, Texas. He was shot as his motorcade left downtown Dallas. Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed the President. She cried "Oh, No" as the motorcade sped on. An Associated Press photographer, James Altgens, reports he saw blood on the President's head…" Also includes a separate section of Iowa regional news which likely ran off a different AP machine. Some very minor tears at start of wire, otherwise very well preserved. A Rare and Important record of a pivotal day in not only American but world history as it happened.

Estimate
$10,000 to $15,000