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KENNEDY, JOHN F.

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KENNEDY, JOHN F.
(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. Rare fine content A.L.S. "Love, Jack", 2pp. 8vo., Palm Beach, Nov. 22, 1956 to actress Gene Tierney, his one-time mistress, as she is receiving treatment in Hartford. Seven years to the day before he would be assassinated, Kennedy writes a most complimentary and somewhat suggestive letter, in part: "Dear Gene: Many thanks for your letters. I received them both two days ago - the first had been held in my office for a few days as I was travelling around. You should have come to Florida. It has been beautiful. When you are next home you should weekend. It now appears as though I shall not be going to Springfield…But I shall plan to see you when you are next in N.Y. - so hurry and get completely well. I thought you looked as beautiful as ever - and with the same lovely smile. Everything lies waiting before you - if you will just get well again. Let me know when you shall be in N.Y…." Folds, very good to fine, with transmittal envelope. Together with a signed photo of GENE TIERNEY, 8" x 10" b/w, a glamorous portrait of Tierney, nicely signed. In the spring of 1946, Tierney met Kennedy while filming Dragonwyck, and their romance began with dinner and a concert in New York. A few months after she met Kennedy, Tierney asked husband Oleg Cassini for a divorce. Late in 1946, Kennedy told Tierney he could not marry her, and she broke off the relationship. In 1955, suffering from depression and a near mental breakdown, she signed herself into the Institute for Living in Hartford, Connecticut and after shock treatments she was released to her mother's custody. Two items, very good.