Typed letter signed at the top with his initials, "R.F.K.," one page, 7.75 x 9.75, United States Senate, Committee on Government Operations letterhead, April 8, 1954. Important confidential letter sent by Kennedy to Senator John L. McClellan. In part: "I am enclosing a copy of a memorandum prepared by a member of the staff of the Subcommittee…As you undoubtedly remember it was stated that this witness would corroborate the testimony of Mrs. Mary Markward. However the interview that Mr. Hawkins and I had with Mrs. Branca shows clearly that Mrs. Branca was in no position to do this. She further told me that she informed the FBI a couple of days after her appearance before Senator McCarthy on February 24, 1954, that she was mistaken when she told the Committee that she knew Mrs. Moss as a member of the Northeast Club of the Communist Party. The Committee staff are continuing to interview other members of the Northeast Club of 1943-44 in an attempt to uncover a witness that will testify that Mrs. Moss attended Communist party meetings or was in other ways active in the party." Nicely matted and framed to an overall size of 14.5 x 17. In fine condition. Accompanied by the mentioned memorandum and two original glossy wire photos of McCarthy and Kennedy, originally acquired from the San Francisco Examiner.
Provenance: from the estate of Senator Carl Levin. A lifelong Democrat, ardent advocate for civil rights, and staple of the United States Senate from 1979 to 2015, Senator Levin was also a longtime client of RR Auction. As a collector, he favored his political heroes—Harry S. Truman, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr.—as well as those figures emblematic of the American spirit, like Robert Frost, Joe Louis, and Helen Keller.
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