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Eunice Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed on the "Dallas Museum Display on President Kennedy"

Eunice Kennedy writes to family 'fixer' Melody Miller on the 1989 establishment of "the Dallas Museum Display on President Kennedy"

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Eunice Kennedy writes to family 'fixer' Melody Miller on the 1989 establishment of "the Dallas Museum Display on President Kennedy"

ALS signed “Eunice,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, Special Olympics letterhead, July 26, 1989. Handwritten letter to Melody Miller, a close confidante of the Kennedy family and the deputy press secretary of Ted Kennedy, in full: “I just received your magnificent note on the Dallas Museum Display on President Kennedy. I think now, at least for us this is something good about the exhibit & that is in your own words ‘It is not a tourist spot as much as it is a pilgrimage’ and secondly that young people knowing the many facets of his personality that he gave to our political life can think of the goodness & challenge & excitement & even laughter & joy that political life can be for all of us. I am now happy that the memorial has been established, & that feeling is gained greatly from your note & from your explanation on & development of the exhibit over these many months.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed in the hand of Eunice Kennedy, who marks the contents as “Personal.”

The exhibit is ostensibly The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, located inside the former Texas School Book Depository building, opened as The Sixth Floor exhibit on February 20, 1989. At the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963, the warehouse, located at 411 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, was occupied by the Texas School Book Depository Company, the suspected vantage point of Lee Harvey Oswald during the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

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