Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD. Telegram to Juanita Jackson re meeting to discuss "the Nation's Civil Rights Problem." Standard Western Union Telegram, dated July 3, 1963; laminated to a wooden plaque for display. Washington D.C., 1963

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"At four o'clock on Tuesday, July 9, I am meeting with a group of leaders of women's organizations throughout the country to discuss those aspects of the nation's civil rights problem in which women and women's organizations can play a special role. This matter merits serious and immediate attention and I would be pleased to have you attend the meeting to be held in the East Room of the White House. Please advise whether you will be able to attend, John F. Kennedy."