Spring Discovery Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/12/2013
Photograph Signed “To Dee Jay - / With best / wishes from / a friend of / Ted Williams - / John Kennedy.” Black & white, 6.5” x 8.5” (visible). Crease with slight paper loss in upper right blank area, minor surface flaws. Matted with a photograph secretarially signed “To Dee Jay / Best wishes / Ted Williams / 1959.” Black & white, 7” x 8.5” (visible). Not personally signed by Williams. Framed under glass to 18.5” x 13.5”.
Dee Jay is David John Powers, young son of Dave Powers, Special Assistant to President Kennedy. When Powers died in 1998, Sen. Ted Kennedy said in a written statement, “Jack loved Dave Powers like a brother, and so did all of us in the Kennedy family.” Dave Powers first met 28-year-old John F. Kennedy in Boston in 1946 when JFK began campaigning for Congress. David John Powers, from whom these signed photographs were obtained, explained that, in 1959, his father had shown then Senator Kennedy the Ted Williams photograph before he gave it to Dee Jay. Kennedy then inscribed the photograph here offered.
In 1912, JFK’s grandfather, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald (1863-1950), Mayor of Boston, threw out the first pitch at the Boston Red Sox new ballpark, Fenway Park, and again at the first 1912 World Series game at Fenway. As a Boston Congressman and Massachusetts Senator, John F. Kennedy frequently attended Red Sox games and knew Ted Williams well.
A JFK Signed Photo with deep ties to Baseball; Kennedy signs as “a friend of Ted Williams” to the young son of his best friend
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