PT109 Lt John Kennedy "Lost His Life" 8/1944 Readers Digest June Rprint Survival

Description: Talk about your being able to collect an early John F. Kennedy item. This is so early it's before he went into Congress - about when he was a Lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. This is the complete issue of the August 1944 Reader's Digest. It contains a story called "Survival" which appeared in the previous June's New Yorker magazine. That article had stated that former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph Kennedy's son, Jack, had lost his life at sea on the PT-109 patrol boat. But then, after the June publication, Kennedy showed up alive, making this August article possible about how the men came through their ordeal! Wow. This article, here, not the June one, also got famously reprinted as a 1960 presidential election hand-out. Political collectors pay well for that because it's a JFK political campaign item. But this is the original from during World War II, fully two years before he got elected to Congress. Want more irony? This was when JFK was known only as an ambassador's son whose oldest brother, Joseph Kennedy, Jr. was a Navy flier who went to England. Joe Jr. did two tours of duty and piloted 25 missions in PB4Y-1 Liberator patrol boats making him eligible to return home. But then he volunteered for some strange duty in explosive-laden Liberator drones. And JFK's brother was killed on August 12, 1944, EXACTLY at the time this article was circulating which celebrated the "non-death" of younger brother, Jack. Can you imagine how the family felt about all this and the weirdness of such Kennedy luck? If that's not good enough for you, this issue also has a blurb about Thomas Dewey, who just happened to be that year's republican presidential nominee running against Franklin Roosevelt for his fourth term. So here is A LOT of history when you add up all its other WWII articles plus the Kennedy and Dewey material. This is in nice condition but please enlarge our images to judge condition for yourself so you can be happy with your purchase. Remember this stuff's called ephemera, folks, because it was made to be used and then pitched. So we're just happy to have this in any condition to add to our collections. After all, how many of these got tossed? Maybe 99.5%?? We are members of APIC and sell only authentic presidential (and other collectible) material so buy with confidence. Shipping on this will be $6.50, first class with tracking. We'll be happy to combine shipping if we can even though eBay says we won't. We just issue a refund for any overpayment. 7594

Price: 32 USD

Location: Beverly Hills, Florida

End Time: 2025-01-06T17:53:59.000Z

Shipping Cost: 6.5 USD