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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 22.25 x 18.5, June 10, 1963. President Kennedy appoints Lee Loevinger, of Minnesota, as “a member of the Federal Communications Commission.” Signed boldly at the conclusion by John F. Kennedy and countersigned by Secretary of State Dean Rusk. The lower left bears the original embossed off-white seal. Impressively cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 28.25 x 24. In fine condition.
Lee Loevinger was an American jurist, lawyer, and WWII veteran (1913–2004), who, after serving in the Minnesota Supreme Court, acted as a United States Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice Antitrust Division from 1961 to 1963. Loevinger was then appointed by President Kennedy, as this document illustrates, as a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in which he served from 1963 to 1968.
As an FCC commissioner, Loevinger originated the idea of dialing 9-1-1 on the telephone, the now nationwide emergency telephone number to summon help in an emergency. He pushed it through in 1968 over initial objections from top officials at AT&T who deemed the technology as impractical. Loevinger also gained attention for his skepticism of the relatively young medium of television, which he called a ‘vast wasteland’ for not having lived up to an ideal of educating the masses. One of his more famous quotes: ‘Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.’
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