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Five items: a presentation letter removed from Warren Commission report, 5.5 x 7, dated September 24, 1964, submitting their report to Lyndon B. Johnson, and bearing printed signatures of all the commission members, signed in ink and ballpoint by John Sherman Cooper, Gerald R. Ford, Allen W. Dulles, John J. McCloy, and J. Lee Rankin; individual ink signatures of Earl Warren, Richard Russell, and Hale Boggs on individual slips; and an original telegram, sent to Marina Oswald on the day of release of the Warren Report, September 24, 1964, from J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel, President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Telegram reads, in part: “I was unable to reach you…to explain about photos, letters, documents, and other personal effects. We are arranging to have these returned to you as soon as it can be done and adequately protect the requirements of the commission’s reports…Some personal property cannot be returned where necessary for the report.” All five items are matted and framed together with a color portrait of the commission presenting its report to President Johnson, to an overall size of 14.75 x 27.5. In fine condition. Despite the promises of Rankin on behalf of the commission, none of Lee Harvey Oswald’s personal items were returned to Marina, with the exception of her husband’s wedding band almost 50 years later. RR Auction COA.
