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Permalink Reply by James on January 11, 2017 at 7:16pm

Barbara, the future President must have really appreciated your father's kind thoughts, because JFK signed the letter himself. It's 100% authentic!

Kennedy used an autopen as well as numerous secretaries to sign for him, but yours is the real deal. Congratulations!

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Permalink Reply by JMS1223 on January 12, 2017 at 5:37am

Looks a lot like the Senate letter I bought and later found out was secretarial. Lost $200 on that deal.

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Permalink Reply by James on January 12, 2017 at 10:57am

Sorry...it's a no doubter. It's definitely authentic. Just ask Herman Darvick or Andreas Weimer.

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Permalink Reply by JMS1223 on January 12, 2017 at 11:27am

I had RR Auction look at scans of my Kennedy letter from 1955 and they said it was likely secretarial. I wish I kept scans of it to show you. I remember it looking a lot like this. Unfortunately I no longer have the letter and I gave it to a friend many years ago so there is no way of getting it back. I will be kicking myself if it turns out my letter was good after all.

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Permalink Reply by James on January 12, 2017 at 11:55am

Yes, I wish I could see a scan. I hope it wasn't too much like this. JFK can be a tricky one, and a lot of people get fooled by all the variants of his signature. Kennedy had about 17 different secretaries who would sign for him, plus he had about that many variations of his own real signature. I swear he was the Sybill of autograph signing.

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Permalink Reply by JMS1223 on January 12, 2017 at 4:48pm

I will have to search around and see if I can find the pictures I took of it. I will post them here if I can find them.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara C Simon on January 12, 2017 at 5:25pm

Thanks for evaluating this.

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Permalink Reply by James on January 12, 2017 at 7:02pm

Just for some more piece-of-mind, here is a JFK Senate letter with a signature nearly identical to yours. And it is PSA/DNA authenticated.

Attachments: No photo uploads here

• IMG_4567.PNG, 3 MB

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Permalink Reply by James on January 12, 2017 at 7:03pm

And here is the PSA LOA.

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• IMG_4568.PNG, 2.3 MB

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Permalink Reply by Andreas Wiemer on January 12, 2017 at 11:30pm

I think that this letter is secretary signed. Please see my attached study sheet for more information.

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• JFK_new_secretary_comparison.pdf, 362 KB

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on January 13, 2017 at 12:06am

I agree. From the study, the form and slant of the last name show #1, #3 & #5 are by the same hand as the letter posted here. The construction changes a bit partway in, but not quite so or in the same way in the letter and illustrations quoted. Excellent presentation.

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Permalink Reply by James on January 13, 2017 at 1:01am

Eric, did you look at the example from PSA/DNA I gave? Either PSA is wrong or Andreas is wrong.

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