Impressive collection of approximately 120 items signed by dozens of notable figures associated with President John F. Kennedy, comprised mostly of signed covers and index cards, featuring a large and comprehensive array of family and cabinet members, personal aides and politicians, judges, police officers, religious leaders, PT-109 survivors, and more. Highlights include JFK’s parents, Rose Fitzgerald and Joseph P. Kennedy, his children, John, Jr. and Caroline Kennedy, U.S. presidents Harry S. Truman and Gerald Ford, and esteemed Supreme Court Justices Earl Warren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The collection includes a few multi-signed examples, and a few signatures appear more than once. Signers include (by category):
Family Members
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Joan Bennett Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Jean Kennedy Smith, Maria Shriver, Sargent Shriver, and Janet Lee Bouvier.
Cabinet Members and Aides
Robert F. McNamara, Dean Rusk, Ramsey Clark, C. Douglas Dillon, Arthur J. Goldberg,
W. Willard Wirtz, Stewart F. Udall, J. Edward Day, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Evelyn Lincoln, Pierre Salinger, Luther H. Hodges, Abraham Ribicoff, Orville S. Freeman, Anthony J. Celebrezze, Nicholas Katzenbach, Ted Sorenson, Lawrence O'Brien, John Seigenthaler, Burke Marshall, Llewellyn Thompson, Clifford Alexander, Roswell Gilpatric, and Janet Travell.
Assassination and Warren Commission
Gerald Ford, Lady Bird Johnson, Sarah T. Hughes, John Connally, Earl Warren, John Sherman Cooper, Jim Garrison, John J. McCloy, Thomas Hale Boggs, Allen W. Dulles, Richard B. Russell, Robert N. McClelland, Malcolm O. Perry, Fouad A. Bashour, William Kemp Clark, Clint Hill, William R. Greer, Roy H. Kellermann, Maurice N. McDonald, Bob K. Carroll, Cecil J. McWatters, Emmett J. Hudson, and William W. Scoggins.
Notable Politicians and Friends
Harry S. Truman, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Willy Brandt, Eamon de Valera, Keith J. Holyoake, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Richard Cardinal Cushing, John W. McCormack, George A. Smathers, Father Oscar L. Huber, Patrick McMahon, IM Pei, Fabian Bachrach, William O. Douglas, Walter Cronkite, William Manchester, Bob Woodward, and Oleg Cassini.
Also included is a collection of 33 covers signed by a Kennedy-era United States Governor. Each cover bears an affixed U.S. #1246 5¢ Kennedy Memorial ‘Eternal Flame’ stamp and a pasted-on or hand-drawn state flag cachet. Signers include: John N. Dempsey (CT), Elbert N. Carvel (DE), G. Farris Bryant (FL), Robert E. Smylie (ID), Otto Kerner, Jr. (IL), Matthew W. Welsh (IN), Harold E. Hughes (IA), John A. Anderson, Jr. (KS), Bert T. Combs (KY), Jimmie H. Davis (LA), John H. Reed (ME), J. Millard Tawes (MD), Endicott Peabody (MA), Karl F. Rolvaag (MN), Ross H. Barnett (MS), John M. Dalton (MO), Tim M. Babcock (MT), John W. King (NH), Jack M. Campbell (NM), William L. Guy (ND), James A. Rhodes (OH), Henry Bellman (OK), John H. Chafee (RI), Donald S. Russell (SC), Archie Gubbrud (SD), Frank G. Clement (TN), George D. Clyde (UT), Philip H. Hoff (VT), Albertis S. Harrison, Jr. (VA), Albert D. Rosellini (WA), William W. Barron (WV), John W. Reynolds (WI), and Clifford P. Hansen (WY). In overall fine to very fine condition. An exhaustive list of Kennedy-era figures, extending from lesser-known public officials to the highest branches of the federal government.
