Auction Date:2013 Nov 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS signed “Love xxx, Lee,” on a colorful 5.75 x 4.25 nuclear-themed May Day postcard, May 10, 1962. Postcard to his mother reads, in full (with grammar and spelling retained): “Well theres nothing much new, we are just waiting for the Embassy to finish up the paper work and give us the word they are very slow about it. weather here is good June is getting big, Marina is O.K and so am I. Will write when something new comes up.” Oswald has addressed the postcard to, “U.S.A. / Vernon, Texas / Mrs. M. Oswald,” with Lee writing his return address at the bottom, in Russian, and signed “A. Oswald.” In Russia he was “Alek.” The address has been lightly crossed out with a forwarding address written below in another hand. Correspondence side is also labeled in pencil, “EX 240,” for Warren Commission Exhibit No. 240. In fine condition.
Coincidentally, on the day Oswald wrote this postcard, Joseph P. Norbury, American Consul at the US Embassy in Moscow, wrote Oswald, in part, “I am pleased to inform you that the Embassy is now in a position to take final action on your wife’s visa application. Therefore, you and your wife are invited to come to the Embassy at your convenience.” The Warren report states that “Marina Oswald picked up her visa, valid until December 1, 1962, on January 11, 1962. Oswald did not pick up his visa until May 22 [after Marina had received her visa from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service]…Because his exit visa had a 45-day expiration time after date of issuance, Lee Oswald delayed picking it up until he knew when he was leaving.” Postcard originates from the collection of Dr. John K. Lattimer (1914-2007). Lattimer was a doctor and renowned collector who who did extensive research on the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, becoming the first non-affiliated medical specialist, chosen by the Kennedy family, to examine the medical evidence related to the Kennedy assassination.
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