Photos, letters among Kennedy memorabilia to go to auction

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A photo of former U.S. President with his children John Jr. and Caroline in costumes taken on Oct. 31, 1963 is displayed among other items as part of the McInnis Auctioneers Presidential Auction in Amesbury, Mass. Feb. 10, 2013.

The items to be auctioned are part of the estate of David F. Powers, who was a close friend as well as Special Assistant to former President John F. Kennedy. Powers traveled with Kennedy from the beginning of his political career through the president's assassination in 1963. Powers became the first curator of the JFK Library, where he served until he retired from the position in 1994. Powers' family discovered the pieces as they prepared the family home for sale.

See the auction catalogue presented by John McInnis Auctioneers.

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A letter to former U.S. President John F. Kennedy from his mother

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Photos of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis taken in 1955

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Photos of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Dave Powers, the man widely considered to be John F. Kennedy's best friend, kept several of the Kennedys' photos and personal artifacts over the years. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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What about his golf clubs????

    Reply#1 - Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:37 AM EST

    golf pictures, no clubs

      Reply#2 - Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:16 AM EST

      The author and
      editor of this article kindly neglected to mention the false credentials and
      tailcoat that Mrs. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and her family have been riding
      on for nearly a century now; Mrs. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is not the
      daughter of President John F. Kennedy and he is not related to Joe & Rose
      Kennedy. Mrs. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is not in the same league as those
      honorable gentlemen mentioned in the article. President John F. Kennedy's
      actual daughter has held diplomatic credentials, including carteblanche, and is
      Stockholm honored. She has been unable to travel from the interior of the US
      for about a quarter of a century now. Through hard work done well, she is
      listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World and is a

      poet. She has the honor of being presented to the Imperial Family of Japan decades
      ago and the PM who attended the G8 meeting in Denver, Colorado (during President
      Clinton's administration). As she was beginning to come out of coma-induced amnesia
      she wrote this poem remembering respect for elders, the scenery of Japan and
      China, the poetry of China, and the design she developed that was printed onto
      a garment worn by Princess Diana, the fabric to be made Japan, if she
      recollects correctly.

      Inconsolable Sorrow

      Born between heaven and earth

      Afloat on a river of stars

      Who knows whose child this is

      This dear ancestor of the gods

      She reaches the Isle of Immortals

      Beyond the expansive Celestial Sea

      She picks the mauve blossoms of the courtyard tree

      You are too far away for her to send them

      She devotes songs to her ancestors

      She sings the clean fragrance of their virtue

      The main melody shifts and varies

      With the lingering omnipresent sadness

      She sleeps alone on Empty Mountain

      Perfect Woman going after nothing

      Responding, but not storing, staying empty

      She sees their faces in her dreams

      They stay not long in her bedchamber

      Leaving dreams quickly

      The singer's inconsolable sorrow

      Mourns how few truly comprehend.

      President John F. Kennedy's actual daughter has little interest in an
      ambassador appointment for herself (though she has adult children who might be
      interested). She waits patiently these 3 to 4 decades to be able to communicate
      with her family (she is still kidnapped, just like her father) and to be
      reunited permanently with her husband (a distant relative, British-born), their
      children, and grandchildren, she, like her parents has no aunts, uncles, nieces,
      nephews, first cousins, or siblings.

      Appointed ambassadors have few responsibilities, the main one being paying for
      lavish parties. Disgraced former US Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, a supporter
      of itler and something about tech theft and Mrs. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg's
      grandfather who almost got the US into a war with England, but who is not
      actually President John F. Kennedy's father (Rosemary & John were repeat
      kidnappees & concealed & injured, experiences President Kennedy's
      actual daughter has also), trolled Hollywood where advanced communications were
      developed. President John F. Kennedy's actual daughter waits patiently to
      return to the gilded cage her husband affords her. When returning to reside
      abroad she will never have any "power" to wield and most citizens of
      other countries she's encountered said they will not place her in any catch-22s
      about the US and any other country/countries or issues. She received accolades
      to the US State Department, unsolicited by her, when rendering medical
      assistance at natural disaster sites and civil wars through an international
      relief agency based in England as there was no similar entity in the US at the
      time (she studied law and medicine through Harvard, her father's alma mater,
      advanced economics through the London School of Economics, another of her
      father's alma maters, and at the behest of her "Father Gooses" in the
      US military, she studied advanced physics at a public university in the
      interior of the US and presented before the United Nations in New York without
      prepared written text or notes accompanied by Prince Charles (whom she first
      met through her parents and again at the US British Diplomatic Ball in New York
      escorted by US Senator Ted (Theodore)/Edward Morehouse Kennedy and again at the
      Nixon White House--up until the Bush Administration the presidents made a point
      of inviting her to the White House, her last home with her father, at least
      once during their administrations), wearing a coatdress fashioned of fabric
      similar to his suit. As one man phrased it, President John F. Kennedy's actual
      daughter brought goodwill to the United States when it was sorely needed.

      Disgraced former Ambassador to England, Joseph P. Kennedy, supporter
      of itler and something about tech theft and Mrs. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg's
      grandfather who almost got the US into a war with England, but who is not
      actually President John F. Kennedy's father (Rosemary & John were repeat kidnappees
      & concealed & injured, experiences President Kennedy's actual daughter
      has also), trolled Hollywood where advanced communications were developed.
      President John F. Kennedy's actual daughter waits patiently to return to the
      gilded cage her husband affords her. When returning to reside abroad she will
      never have any "power" to wield and most citizens of other countries
      she's encountered said they will not place her in any catch-22s about the US
      and any other country/countries or issues. She received alcolades to the US
      State Department, unsolicited by her, when rendering medical assistance at
      natural disaster sites and civil wars through an international relief agency
      based in England as there was no similar entity in the US at the time (she
      studied law and medicine through Harvard, her father's alma mater, advanced
      economics through the London School of Economics, another of her father's alma
      maters, and at the behest of her "Father Gooses" in the US military,
      she studied advanced physics at a public university in the interior of the US
      and presented before the United Nations in New York without prepared written
      text or notes accompanied by Prince Charles (whom she first met through her
      parents and again at the US British Diplomatic Ball in New York escorted by US
      Senator Ted (Theodore)/Edward Morehouse Kennedy and again at the Nixon White
      House--up until the Bush Administration the presidents made a point of inviting
      her to the White House, her last home with her father, at least once during
      their administrations), wearing a coatdress fashioned of fabric similar to his
      suit. As one man phrased it, President John F. Kennedy's actual daughter
      brought goodwill to the United States when it was sorely needed.

      When a United States Senator, President John F. Kennedy,
      already happily married to a working scientist/daughter of a diplomat, was
      demanded of to dress up and pose for "wedding" style pictures with
      Miss Jacqueline Bouvier who was shadowing him supposedly for her occasional
      part-time work as a photographer for a newspaper. A judge who taught about a
      year at Harvard came forward to say he assisted Mrs. Jacqueline Bouiver Kennedy
      to obtain a quick divorce from the man she married who temporarily changed his
      name to John F. Kennedy. Clint is said to be in love with Jackie. It was not
      until Jackie put her hand behind the neck of President John F. Kennedy after
      counting down when the book depository/repository came in sight in Dallas that
      President John F. Kennedy jerked; Clint was wrestling something out of Jackie's
      hand on the back of the limo as she was trying to exit. At the mansion in
      California where it is supposed that President Kennedy had a
      "honeymoon" with Jackie, what actually happened is his being in a
      series of meetings with not-nice people; it was all very tense--she and her
      mother/President Kennedy's actual wife happened to be there. President John F.
      Kennedy's actual daughter cannot be bound by whatever transpired at those
      meetings.

      Dave Powers was on the cusp of being fired. President John F. Kennedy expresssed the preference that if the Air Force One leather jacket was ever found that it be given to the White House for their collection of Presidential mementos. Ditto with the signed photo with President Harry S Truman.

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