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Lot #1470
George Plimpton

??I was...in the kitchen when Robert Kennedy was shot; indeed Sirhan Sirhan ran across my heels on the way to do it. Would that I had been a few steps slower!?

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??I was...in the kitchen when Robert Kennedy was shot; indeed Sirhan Sirhan ran across my heels on the way to do it. Would that I had been a few steps slower!?

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Paris Review letterhead, September 11, 2003. Letter regarding the assassination of Robert Kennedy. In part, 'I was...in the kitchen when Robert Kennedy was shot; indeed Sirhan Sirhan ran across my heels on the way to do it. Would that I had been a few steps slower!...Kennedy was indeed a fine man...and the world is a lesser place without him.' Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Plimpton's hand, with his signature appearing in the return address area. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.

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