Posted on 06/06/2007 6:53:27 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
..still available to private collectors!
Newly-elected President John F. Kennedy wore this shirt on the day of his inauguration, January 20, 1961. When the third button from the collar went missing, Kennedy gave the shirt to his personal valet. The button remains missing even today. The shirt was custom-made for the fastidious Kennedy, known to have changed clothes as often as fives times a day.
The shirt has been thoughtfully preserved under clear acrylic and protected from direct light for at least the past nine years. The shirt is beautifully mounted in a 42” x 46” x 1.25” black and gilt wood frame with an official photograph of Kennedy, an actual invitation (itself scarce) to the inaugural address, and a brass plaque.
The package is accompanied by Letters of Authenticity and Provenance detailing the current owner’s acquisition and valuation of the shirt.
10% of the proceeds from the winning bid for this item will benefit the Special Olympics.
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I wonder the value of the "missing third button".
Jun-05-07 - Jun-15-07 15:00:00
$2,150,000.00
John F. Kennedy
JFK Inauguration Shirt & Invite LOA
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Monica’s dress is worth more. Kennedy did not even serve a full term.
They expect me to pay over $2M for a shirt missing a button? I don’t think so.
Oswald wasn’t marksman enough. I always knew there was a third button.
I’m vary capitalistic—and no extreme fan of Kennedy—but this kind of thing belongs in a museum—IM(not so)HO.
ROFL!
Bump
I guess she gave her all.
Oh. It’s a Kennedy shirt. I was looking for a used Oldsmobile...
Kennedys - overexposed; Kennedys - country’s “camelot;” Kennedys - what you see, what you...
Did Marilyn Monroe leave bodily fluids on this shirt? If so, and if DNA proves so, then it’s got to be worth at least $2.50.
I thought it was an Oldsmobile.
You beat me to it.
And if it needs alterations, you’ll have to pay for ‘em yourself;)
I wonder what happened to the pink outfit that Jackie Kennedy wore to Dallas on November 22, 1963?
That’s the most historical outfit in American history
as far as I’m concerned. Does it still exist?
No thanks. Having to witness Teddy Kennedy foisted on this country is all the “Kennedy Legacy Artifact” I could ever possibly take.
I bet the underpants he was wearing when he was shot would be worth even more, buttons or no.
No way. His shirt belongs in a museum?
In Mrs. Kennedy’s pink suit, an indelible memory of public grief—
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Nov 22, 2003 by Delia M. Rios Newhouse News Service
WASHINGTON — Not long after that terrible day in Dallas — no one knows exactly when — a brown paper box arrived at the National Archives.
The return address was on O Street, the Georgetown home of Jacqueline Kennedy’s mother. Packed inside was the pink Chanel suit first glimpsed Nov. 22, 1963, when the first lady joined JFK at a Fort Worth breakfast, and which, covered in his blood, she still wore the next morning to escort the slain president’s casket into the White House.
There in the Archives, the suit remains. Stored in a custom- designed corrugated board box, it rests on a gray steel shelf in a secured area of a suburban warehouse. It has never been cleaned. The wool skirt and jacket lie flat, with a suggestion of human form created by acid-free tissue paper folded inside the sleeves.
Only recently was a deed of gift obtained from the Kennedys’ sole surviving child, Caroline. But one hundred years will have to pass before the suit can again come before the American public. This condition is consistent with Mrs. Kennedy’s determination to balance her obligations to history with her family’s privacy. Archivists’ interests, moreover, are not only the past and present, but the future.
“Once it can be displayed it will really bring the ‘60s to the present — whatever that present is,” said Steven Tilley, who oversees the Archives’ JFK Assassination Records Collection.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20031122/ai_n11426898
It was a shirt worn to a president’s inauguration—by a president of the USA...yup.
Personal, Political, White House Artifacts and Documents
Consigned by Mary Gallagher and Providencia Paredes
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy’s Private Secretary
and Personal Attendant
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy’s Shoes
A pair of Italian handmade beige leather shoes, size 10A, “The Flower” designed by Mario of Florence imprinted “The Flower” calzature per esportazione produzione mugaini Hand Made Firenze”, each shoe with a padded black velvet shoe form in the toe, some wear and scuffing.
Property of P. Paredes Jacqueline Kennedy frequently wore
these shoes with a navy blue dress
$ 300 - 400
Size 10A "rather big".
Source: auction 2003
http://www.hantmans.com/pages/kennedy/kennedycat.html
Maybe in same private collection referenced above. Good question.
Thanks
How much for the brown stained pants he wore on PT 109 when that jap destroyer ruined their party? (Yeah it was a rumor... but sometimes ya never know.)
” For Sale: one late model Oldsmobile, low miles carpet slightly wet-possibly leaky AC system. Reserve not met”
1961 Lincoln Continental Four-door convertible limousine, VIN # 1Y86H405950 JFK was riding in when he was assassinated. Quite possibly the most famous and controversial automobile in modern history. The car was custom built by Hess & Eisenhardt and was known as the X-100.
At the time of the assassination, the car was painted dark blue and had a 1962 grille. It was later returned to H and E for extensive modifications, including armor plating, and the custom fitted front bumper cone lights were removed and replaced with simple chrome bumper plugs, and the limo was repainted black at the request of President Johnson. The limousine is now at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan
Crown Imperial Ghia1960 Limousine was placed in White House service for Mrs. Kennedy to use around town, and she did on a frequent basis. That car was serial number 16 and reportedly had a blue broadcloth interior and a conventional six-window Ghia. Was to be used to carry dignitaries the in JFK's funeral, however, most all of them walked the route and it is believed the Ghia (and the Cad F75) were empty.
There was also a Lincoln convertible that was on loan from Ford to the White House for Mrs. Kennedy to drive herself around in. It is now at the Imperial Palace antique auto display in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Information from Jeff Stork and the Imperial Car Organization.
Did they throw in Teddy’s neck brace to compensate for the missing button?
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Ironically...
Billy Lovelady The Man in the Doorway of Texas Book Depository
When Oswald was arrested, he was wearing the identical orange-brown shirt with missing buttons and tee-shirt underneath...
Oh come on. You have got to be kidding?
Legit
Legit
Yawn.
Seinfeld’s Van! Seinfeld’s Van!
Bet it wasn’t Made in China.
And don't forget George's John Voight car!
Is that John or Jon?
Exactly, In that episode George thought he was buying Jon Voight's car, but he actually bought John Voight's car.
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