On Wednesday,
April 26, 2017, a diary with John F. Kennedy's unedited inner thoughts on
politics and his personal beliefs was sold at a Boston auction for $718,750. The
61-page diary includes both handwritten and typed pages, which are bound in a
black leather binder. Kennedy kept the diary during his brief time as a
journalist in the summer of 1945.
He was working
as a reporter for the Hearst newspaper company, a job his father, Ambassador
Joseph Kennedy, arranged and after covering the opening session of the United
Nations in San Francisco that May, he went abroad to cover post-war Europe.
According to
Bobby Livingston, spokesperson at RR Auction, which handled the sale,
"this exceptional diary sheds light on a side of John F. Kennedy seldom
explored and confirms America's enduring sense that he was one of the most
qualified, intelligent, and insightful commanders-in-chief in American
history".
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