Pete Mellor Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 12 hours ago, Ron Bulman said: Pete, that's quite an impressive list of authors whose books you have signed copies of. Ron, Sure, my library shelves are full, I now have piles of books stacked on the floor. I need another bookshelf. I also have all the Warren volumes and books on RFK & MLK assassinations. I haven't obtained all these signatures myself. I have inherited a few from Ian Griggs & Mathew Smith's collections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 As I mentioned cleaning out an organizing the box on a shelf by my desk here are the magazines found in it. 1. A copy of the Life John F. Kennedy Memorial edition originally published in late 1963. Given to me by my daughter. Original cost: 50 cents. 2. A original copy of the December 2., 1967 Saturday Evening post. Cover story: 'Six Seconds In Dallas', Major New Study Shows Three Assassins Killed Kennedy. Purchased off the internet for the cover article, called The Crossfire that Killed President Kennedy, by Josiah Thompson. Original cost 35 cents. 3. Skeptic Magazine, September/October 1975. Cover story: Opposing views on the question that keeps coming back: Who Killed JFK? Articles by Bernard Fensterwald, Sylvia Meagher, David Belin. Give to me by a friend whose brother was throwing it out. 4. D magazine, November 1983. Cover story: Assassination In Dallas. 5. Time magazine, November 1988. Cover story: J.F.K's Assassination, "...new book argues Oswald ... out to get Connally." 6. People Magazine, November 1988. Cover story: November 22, 1963: Where We Were. 7. Life Anniversary Special, Winter 1988. Same as # 1 above with a different outer cover first. 8. Texas Monthly magazine, December 1991. Cover story: Can Hollywood solve JFK's Murder? About (of course) Oliver Stone's movie JFK. 9. National Enquirer, display until January 2014. Cover: The Kennedy Assassination, From the Secret files of The Enquirer Over 200 Never-Before-Seen Photos! 10. JFK The Case For Conspiracy, Memorial Edition by Robert Groden. 46 pages. Purchased from him on the Grassy Knoll in Dealy Plaza in early November 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) Oops, forgotten my own... a bit of everything.. the pile under the Presidential Lincoln are prints I made from books, some essays and prints from websites like Pat Speer's. And some of my old toys to give it the period-touch. Looking at the picture I notice I have forgotten to put one of my Minox up there... Edited November 10, 2022 by Jean Paul Ceulemans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) I have a few pieces myself. Some standard ones as well as some quirky ones. A few picture books of JFK and Jackie. A few political buttons including two from RFK's 1968 primary run campaign. A standard "Thank You For Your Support" RFK 1968 primary campaign letter ( unsigned.) Supposedly collected from the victory speech ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel the night of June 5th, 1968! A "First Day Issue" JFK commemorative envelope. A JFK postage stamp. A JFK impersonator Vaughn Meador "First Family" comedy record album. Some scrap book picture items of some of my favorite fringe JFK/Oswald/Jack Ruby related characters. Jack Ruby sitting with two of his girls Little Lynn and Tammie True? Individual pictures of Jada, Little Lynn, Beverly Oliver, Sylvia Odio, Evelyn Lincoln. Copy of the "JFK Wanted For Treason" ( ad or flyer? ) from Dallas on either 11,21,1963 or 11,22,1963? A copy of the Air Force 1 LBJ swearing in ceremony photo depicting Congressman Albert Thomas giving LBJ a " you did it baby!" smiling celebratory wink. And the other iconic picture depicting the gut wrenching traumatized look of horror and shock expression on blood spattered dress wearing Jackie Kennedy's face while she is placed next to LBJ during this swearing in. A picture of Jack Ruby blowing a hole into Lee Oswald's guts. I guess that's all. Edited November 6, 2022 by Joe Bauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 I have only one rather hard to find item (here in EU), that's an original 1961 gold-plated inauguration medal (got it from an old Belgian politician). The others are cheap key-chains (brass/nickel/silv.pl.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 24 minutes ago, Jean Paul Ceulemans said: I have only one rather hard to find item (here in EU), that's an original 1961 gold-plated inauguration medal (got it from an old Belgian politician). The others are cheap key-chains (brass/nickel/silv.pl.). That Ford Lincoln JFK motorcade limo model still in it's clear plastic retail box is something Jean Paul. Even at the old age of 71 I think that is...."cool!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) Thanks, that's indeed a very nice looking model, nice details and untouched. If things work out I hope to receive - sometime next week - a Cadillac "Queen Elisabeth II" model. A relative of mine has been a long time collector/dealer of model-cars, he has been pulling some connections to see what's out there. The Cadillac QE II will be a nice addition to my little collection. But I'll have to figure out what the difference is between the Queen Mary II versus the Queen Elisabeth II ?? I only know they are the replacements of the earlier QM I en QE I (I don't know if those were identical or not) But next to the QE II I'll be getting a French Simca Presidential car (like the one Kennedy was in with de Gaule It was SMALL ! Please look at this film from Kennedy's visit to Paris, it's almost hilarious those 2 big guys in such a small presidential car... https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/afe85009104/visite-du-president-john-fitzgerald-kennedy-a-paris I'll attach a screen shot in case the video doesn't work... AND plenty of motorcycles present.. Edited November 14, 2022 by Jean Paul Ceulemans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Speer Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) I have roughly 150 books and magazines on the JFK assassination, and another 200 or so on related matters. I also have thousands upon thousands of pages of photocopies from articles and printouts from websites. As far as fun stuff... A friend gave me a non-functioning b and h camera--which was the same model as Abe Z's. Among my many books, moreover, there is one I think quite special. It is a copy of Specter's Passion for Truth, inscribed by Specter to the parents of his co-writer, Charles Robbins. I found it in a used bookstore in New York. I bought it for 2 bucks. I'd already had the book, but I couldn't help myself. P.S. At one point, I contacted the library where Specter's papers are stored and asked for their help in acquiring copies of his correspondence with Earl Warren. I offered them the autographed copy of his book. But received no response. Edited November 6, 2022 by Pat Speer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 20 minutes ago, Pat Speer said: I have roughly 150 books and magazines on the JFK assassination, and another 200 or so on related matters. I also have thousands upon thousands of pages of photocopies from articles and printouts from websites. As far as fun stuff... A friend gave me a non-functioning b and h camera--which was the same model as Abe Z's. Among my many books, moreover, there is one I think quite special. It is a copy of Specter's Passion for Truth, inscribed by Specter to the parents of his co-writer, Charles Robbins. I found it in a used bookstore in New York. I bought it for 2 bucks. I'd already had the book, but I couldn't help myself. P.S. At one point, I contacted the library where Specter's papers are stored and asked for their help in acquiring copies of his correspondence with Earl Warren. I offered them the autographed copy of his book. But received no response. Wow ! That's a complete library you have there ! 👀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 I'm always looking for especially the older books (1960's up to 1980's). Now, that's because when I'm reading the newer books I often find myself missing big chunks of the story. Unfortunatley, some of that information will not be in those old books, I'm thinking about all the "interactions" between authors, conventions, the different magazines, etc. The stories "behind" the case, something like that. I am looking forward to "Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report", that's when I can get it someday... All-in (taxes, duties, ...) it will cost me over 200 USD. It' probably a very good book, but 200 usd it a little bit over the top for me. By now I 'm thinking of making a weekend-trip to the US and fill a suitcase full of "used" books 😃 People here that have read "Praise from a Future Generation" and would like to share their ideas ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) I had a "Hello, My Name Is" nametag both JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy signed for me at the climactic rally in the Wisconsin presidential primary on April 3, 1960. She rarely signed a document with him. One went many years ago for $100,000. But mine burned up when my bedroom caught fire in 1962. That was the only autograph Jackie Kennedy signed at the rally in 1960 (that rally is the centerpiece of the classic documentary PRIMARY). I badgered her for about five minutes as she kept refusing, until one of her husband's aides said, "For Chrissake, Jackie, give the kid your autograph." I do have photos I took of JFK at the big rally. I was a volunteer on his campaign. Oh, and my mother made me wash my wrist a week after the big rally, despite my protests, even though Senator Kennedy had signed my wrist. My most prized possession is a letter from him on May 9, 1960, thanking me "for the diligent work you did in my behalf during the campaign." He signed it "Jack Kennedy." Edited November 7, 2022 by Joseph McBride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Joseph McBride said: I had a "Hello, My Name Is" nametag both JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy signed for me at the climactic rally in the Wisconsin presidential primary on April 3, 1960. She rarely signed a document with him. One went many years ago for $100,000. But mine burned up when my bedroom caught fire in 1962. My God! What a loss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Yes, but I will never part with my letter from JFK, which means much more to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Some Kennedy memorabilia I missed: On May 12, 1962, I was part of his "honor guard" at the Milwaukee Auditorium and Arena for the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. After the room cleared, I went up behind the dais to look at the podium, which still had the presidential seal on it. I saw that the president had left some notes on his speech on the podium; I remember he was doodling sailboats on it. While I stood there for about five minutes debating about whether or not to take the notes (I was a well-behaved Catholic kid at the time), a Secret Service agent came up to remove the presidential seal. I asked him if I could have the notes. He took them and said, "No, because the president might have been writing something about Berlin." I was disappointed but moments later heard some commotion from behind the curtain. I pulled it open, and there was President Kennedy five feet from my face, passing as he walked toward a down ramp. I impulsively said, "Hi, Jack!," and he smiled and nodded. Then he turned and walked down the ramp into the limousine in which he would be killed the following year. That was the last of three times I met him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 4 hours ago, Joseph McBride said: Some Kennedy memorabilia I missed: On May 12, 1962, I was part of his "honor guard" at the Milwaukee Auditorium and Arena for the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. After the room cleared, I went up behind the dais to look at the podium, which still had the presidential seal on it. I saw that the president had left some notes on his speech on the podium; I remember he was doodling sailboats on it. While I stood there for about five minutes debating about whether or not to take the notes (I was a well-behaved Catholic kid at the time), a Secret Service agent came up to remove the presidential seal. I asked him if I could have the notes. He took them and said, "No, because the president might have been writing something about Berlin." I was disappointed but moments later heard some commotion from behind the curtain. I pulled it open, and there was President Kennedy five feet from my face, passing as he walked toward a down ramp. I impulsively said, "Hi, Jack!," and he smiled and nodded. Then he turned and walked down the ramp into the limousine in which he would be killed the following year. That was the last of three times I met him. Thanks for sharing those great memories ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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