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Hoover Writes of Hijacking Concerns
J. EDGAR HOOVER,
Typed Letter Signed as Director of the FBI, to Peter M. Flanigan, Assistant to the President, Washington, D.C., September 10, 1970.
Item #21141, $1,500
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Robert Kennedy Discourages a Write-In Campaign in 1964
ROBERT F. KENNEDY,
Typed Document. Draft press release, extensive corrections and addenda in Robert Kennedy’s hand. n.d., [ca. March 5, 1964]. 1 page, 8 x 8 5/8 in.
“President Johnson should be free to select his own running mate”
Item #22827, $7,500
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Teletype Roll Reporting President John F. Kennedy’s Assassination
[JOHN F. KENNEDY],
Original teletype roll from UPI reporting the assassination of John F. Kennedy. [Dallas, Tex.], November 22, 1963. Single continuous roll, 8½ x 142 in. Tape repair to approximately first 12 inches, not affecting assassination reporting.
Beginning with reports of peaceful protesters, this roll quickly descends into the horrific details of Kennedy’s murder in Dallas in as close to real-time as possible. Nearly everyone alive on November 22, 1963, remembers where they were when upon hearing the news Kennedy was dead. This teletype roll—the very source of the report remembered by everyone—freezes that pivotal moment in time.
Item #23022, $6,500
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John F. Kennedy Supports the Federal Minimum Wage
JOHN F. KENNEDY,
Typed Letter Signed “Jack” as Senator, to Lister Hill. Washington, D.C., July 8, 1957. 1 p., 8 x 10 ½ in. On United States Senate letterhead.
Item #22743, $2,700
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Kennedy Supports Medical Research
JOHN F. KENNEDY,
Typed Letter Signed as Senator, to Lister Hill. Washington, D.C., May 21, 1956. 1 p., 8 x 10 ½ in. On United States Senate letterhead.
Senator Kennedy forwards suggestions from a Tufts Medical School professor to Lister Hill, the Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Education, and Welfare and a champion of funding medical research.
Item #22744, $4,000
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Sterling Silver Sinseollo Dish, Presented to General Matthew Ridgway by the Korean Minister of Defense
[MATTHEW B. RIDGWAY],
Traditional Korean dish, engraved around the base with four stars, and the inscription, “General & Mrs. M. B. Ridgway / From Defense Minister & Mrs. Ki Poong Lee / Republic of Korea,” ca. 1952.
Item #22366, $5,500
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Signed Copy of Einstein’s Collected Essays (SOLD)
ALBERT EINSTEIN,
Signed Book, Out of My Later Years, by Albert Einstein, signed “A. Einstein” on flyleaf, Philosophical Library, New York, 1950. 282 pp., 5¼ x 8 in.
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
Item #22306, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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“To Secure These Rights”: The Landmark 1947 Report on Civil Rights
[CIVIL RIGHTS],
Book, To Secure These Rights: Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1947. 178 pp., softbound, 6¾ x 9¼ in.
A “shocking revelation” to Truman, this report led directly to his 1948 Executive Orders ending segregation in the military and the federal work force.
Item #22698, $1,800
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A General Account of … Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes
H.D. SMYTH,
A General Account of … Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945. Written at the Request of Major General L. H. Groves, United States Army... Washington, DC: Superintendent of Documents. (1945).” Book, 1945.
Item #20807, $750
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Eisenhower Signed D-Day Message
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER,
Statement to the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force on June 6, 1944. Signed sheet, removed from Eisenhower’s book, Crusade in Europe, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1948.
Item #22258, $5,800
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The Tragic Results of Roosevelt’s 1942 Executive Order 9066
[WORLD WAR II],
Broadside. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 41. San Francisco, Calif., May 5, 1942. 14 x 22 in.
Item #22727, $1,500
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World War I: The American Army in France
[WORLD WAR I],
Signed Book. James Guthrie Harbord, The American Army in France. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936. 632 pp. maps (1 fold.) diagr. 24 cm. Signed, inscribed, and dated on first end page, “To my friend Major A.G. Rudd, like myself a retired officer and a business associate in a related enterprise, with best wishes – J.G. Harbord 1936”, with Rudd’s bookplate attached inside front board. Hardcover book, very good condition.
Item #20713, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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