EDWARD "TED" KENNEDY - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: DEAN RUSK, JOHN B. CONNALLY JR., ROBERT STRANGE MCNAMARA - HFSID 153377
Price: $1,400.00
A TRIBUTE TO JOHN F. KENNEDY: EDWARD "TED"
KENNEDY, JOHN CONNALLY, ROBERT S. McNAMARA and
DEAN RUSK.First Day Cover signed: "John Connally", "Robert S. McNamara", "Ted
Kennedy" and "Dean Rusk", 6¼x3½. Republic of Dahomey FDC honoring J.F.K., 100-franc
stamp affixed, pictorially postmarked President John F. Kennedy/(1917-1963)/22 Nov.
65/PREMIER JOUR COTONOU (FIRST DAY OF ISSUE). This FDC honoring U.S.
President John F. Kennedy was issued by the West African nation of Dahomey (now
Benin) on November 22, 1965, exactly two years after Kennedy's assassination in
Dallas, Texas. EDWARD "TED" KENNEDY, JFK's youngest brother, first made a
political name for himself by successfully managing JFK's 1958 Senate re-election
campaign. Ted's political acumen later proved essential in securing the 1960 Democratic
presidential nomination - and the presidency itself -- for his brother. Kennedy has been a U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts since 1962. JOHN B. CONNALLY (1917-1993),
appointed Kennedy's Secretary of the Navy in 1961, was the Governor of Texas
(1963-1969) and a passenger in JFK's limousine at the time of Kennedy's
assassination. Connally, who was badly wounded by one of the assassin's bullets, later served
as Secretary of the Treasury (1971-1972). DEAN RUSK (1909-1994), as Secretary of
State under JFK and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1969), advised President
Kennedy during confrontations with the Communist world at the Bay of Pigs (April 1961) and
the Berlin Wall (June-August 1961). ROBERT McNAMARA was Secretary of Defense
under JFK and LBJ (1961-1968). During the Cuba Missile Crisis (October 1962), when the
presence of Soviet offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba brought the world to the brink of war,
McNamara advocated the use of naval quarantine. This strategy was ultimately adopted by
Kennedy to bring the crisis to a peaceful solution. Lightly rippled. Slightly soiled at lower right
edge. Fine condition. Framed to an overall size of 30¼x26¾.
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