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JFK SIGNATURE

I bought a small booklet at an estate sale in Kansas with articles pertaining to JFK assassination. Inside the booklet was a folded piece of paper which turned out to be a banquet program for Senator JFK's speech/dinner at a local high school on Oct 22, 1960.  I thought it was cool, took it home and didn't look at for a few days. Finally looked at it closely and on the back of the program was an autograph....for a moment I thought, who the heck signed this...then I said no way....took a look on ebay and found one authenticated autograph that is really close to what this one looks like.  What do you think? The top auto on the torn envelope with the Jfk pic is the authenticated on. The one I found is the large one.

I also did some research on the person I bought the JFK program from. They were an elderly couple...the husband passed away last year and the wife this year. House/contents were being sold by local estate sale company. There was no touting of a JFK autograph of any sort. The husband was a longtime business owner and civic leader. In his obit that was still posted, I searched through all the pics and saw him pictured with Richard Gephardt, who ran for president twice. Anyway, he was a big time guy in the community and I surely do not get the vibes that he was a forger etc. It was like he got the auto on the program and stuffed it away and no one knew it was even there. 

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Permalink Reply by John Ink on July 2, 2014 at 10:44pm

Permalink Reply by Lee Leibold on July 3, 2014 at 6:48am

I believe that this is an authentic signature.  It looks good to ones in my collection, and to all of my reference material!

Permalink Reply by John Ink on July 3, 2014 at 7:44am

Thank you for your reply! I appreciate it!

Permalink Reply by Ryan Maxwell on September 8, 2014 at 10:58pm
What kind of ink is that? Looks like a sharpie? Sharpie wasn't invented until 1964.
Permalink Reply by James on September 14, 2014 at 1:55pm
Here is a pic of JFK's "campaign style" sig from a book about authentic JFK autographs. Notice the similarity, and it was signed in felt tip as well.
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Permalink Reply by James on September 14, 2014 at 1:57pm
Here is another similar one that was authenticated by PSA/DNA.
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Permalink Reply by John Ink on September 9, 2014 at 12:02pm
felt tip markers were around in the late 50s

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