“URGENT… PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAS BEEN SHOT”:HISTORIC BREAKING NEWS OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION ON ORIGINAL UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL TELETYPE ROLL (27 FEET, 4 INCHES), 11/22/63
(KENNEDY ASSASSINATION). Original United Press International teletype roll—President Kennedy. Dallas, November 22, 1963. Original and continuous United Press International teletype roll reporting the breaking news of the Kennedy assassination, beginning only minutes after the shootings of the President and Governor Connally, noting witness reports of three shots, Mrs. Kennedy’s reaction, Secret Service and police response, pandemonium within Parkland Hospital where the President was ultimately declared dead, and ending with a draft of the President’s obituary. Extremely rare teletype roll of uninterrupted bulletins—UPR 74 to 115—marked 11/22. $15,000.
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LARGE ENGRAVED MILITARY COMMISSION, 1866,
WITH STAMPED SIGNATURES OF JOHNSON AND STANTON
JOHNSON, Andrew and STANTON, Edwin. Document signed (stamped signatures). Washington, D.C. July 17, 1866.
Fine military commission, fully engraved on vellum and finished in manuscript, with stamped signatures of President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. $1800.
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“THERE IS NO QUESTION TODAY MORE UNSETTLED IN AMERICAN POLITICS THAN THE NEGRO QUESTION”
FORTUNE, T. Thomas. Black and White. New York, 1885.
Second edition of this treatise on the future of labor and interracial relations in the South by a major African American journalist and public intellectual. $650.
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