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JOHN F. KENNEDY

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
JOHN F. KENNEDY
(1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the United States. Kennedy faced-down the Kruschev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, re-invigorated NASA, and signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Assassinated November 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald. Important S.P. "With best wishes, John F. Kennedy", as President, 8" x 10" b/w, showing Kennedy three-quarter length before a microphone as he gives a speech at the University of Michigan on Oct. 14, 1960. Beside Kennedy, with a rather stern expression stands Michigan Gov. G. Mennen Williams, who also has inscribed and signed the photo. Kennedy's speech is credited as being his first statement on forming the Peace Corps: "How many of you are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, are willing to work in the Foreign Service and spend your lives traveling around the world? On your willingness to do that…will depend the answer whether a free society can compete. I think it can! And I think Americans are willing to contribute. But the effort must be far greater than we have ever made in the past…". Contrast fair against darker background but entirely legible, mounted, otherwise near fine condition. With a second image of the same speech, trimmed, unsigned. A great piece from a defining moment in American foreign affairs.

Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000.

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