Glossy 5.25 x 7.5 half-length photo of General Patton posing in his military uniform with his arms folded behind his back, signed in black ink, “G. S. Patton, Jr.” Affixed to a slightly larger mat. In fine condition. Accompanied by three TLSs from Patton’s daughter, Ruth Ellen Patton Totten, as well as an unsigned glossy photo of Patton posing with his English bull terrier Willie, and General Walton H. Walker. One of the letters from his daughter discusses the rumored murder of General Patton, in part: “Our father, General Patton, was not murdered though we have had eleven different people write us to say that either they had done it, or that they knew who had done it, and the sensation-seekers in the media and in the cheap books all want to think he was murdered because its more exciting and people will notice them....Our father died from a bloodclot that had formed in his leg...and reached his paralyzed lung.” While the true cause of Patton’s death has been the subject of controversy for decades—in 2014 Bill O’Reilly published a book asserting that Stalin had the general poisoned—his daughter seems to close the book on conspiracy theories in this letter. A rare uninscribed photograph complemented by a series of intriguing personal letters. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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