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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"" on his Senate letterhead, 2pp. 8vo., [Washington, June 15, 1957] with holograph transmittal envelope, to actress Gene Tierney, his one-time mistress. In full: ""Dear Gene: Many many thanks for the beautiful phone cover and the tray. I must say the cover is a first class job - and the object of everyone's attention. I am more [underlined] than delighted you are home. - And I hope we meet very soon - if not in Connecticut - then in N.Y. You are a wonderful girl and I am looking forward to seeing you. Love Jack"". 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 signs herself into the Institute for Living in Hartford, Connecticut and after shock treatments was released to her mother's custody. Very good.