Lot #192

Mr. and Mrs. John Connally’s Signed Eyewitness Typescripts

Description

“I did turn to the President and said, ‘Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.’”

Governor and first lady of Texas from 1963–1969. Three signed statements: TQS signed “John B. Connally,” one page, 8 x 5, in full: “The first sense of anything unusual was when I became conscious of a shot, what sounded like gunshot. Instinctively, I turned to my right and as I did so I sensed, more than I saw, that President Kennedy was hit”; souvenir typescript signed “Mrs. John B. Connally,” one page, 11 x 8.5, in part: “I did turn to the President and said, ‘Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.’ Then I don’t know how soon, it seems to me it was very soon, that I heard a noise”; and a photocopied book page signed in the margin, “Mrs. John B. Connally,” 11 x 8.5, featuring her Warren Commission testimony with this quote highlighted. In overall fine condition. RR Auction COA.

Auction Info

• Auction Title: JFK 50th Anniversary Auction
• Dates: #417 - Ended October 23, 2013