Lot 72
  • 72

Album and Material Relating to the Death and Memorial of Robert F. Kennedy

Estimate
600 - 800 USD
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Description

  • paper and ink
Including  an invitation to attend a memorial Mass on 6 June 1968 at Arlington Cemetery; telegram from the Kennedy Family to Kathleen McNamara date-stamped 7 June 1968 inviting her to the Requiem Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and burial at Arlington Cemetery;  3 pamphlets related to the Mass on the Day of Burial (New York, St. Patrick's Cathedral); 2 memorial service pamphlets (Cambridge: Harvard University Memorial Church, 10 June 1968); 4 prayer cards with portraits of RFK (one encased in lucite); a postcard portrait of RFK in printed glassine wrappers; 7 memorial programs 1969-1975; program for the unveiling of RFK's portrait by Aaron Shikler dated 14 March 1975; an engraved thank-you note on mourning stationery  from Mr. & Mrs. Edward Smith; 7 retained articles on RFK's assassination and funeral from newspaper and magazine publications such as the New York Times, Newsweek, and The Economist; newspapers browned. Housed in a vinyl binder.

Catalogue Note

Robert McNamara was one of the pallbearers at RFK's funeral.