JFK`s `Only` Diary for sale by his former research assistant at live auction in Boston
(Artdaily.org)

As we near the 100th anniversary of John F. Kennedy`s birth, Boston-based RR Auction announces the manuscript: Prelude to Leadership - JFK`s Summer Diary of 1945 will be featured in an upcoming live auction on April 26, 2017. This 61-page diary, written as a Hearst newspaper war correspondent, captures a moment in time perhaps never before fully appreciated, and only now, 71 years later, officially being offered at auction. The diary is compromised of 61 loose-leaf pages, bound in a premium black leather cowhide binder. Twelve of the pages were handwritten by Kennedy and he typed forty-nine pages on his personal typewriter. The diary was consigned by Deirdre Henderson, who began working for Senator Kennedy in 1959 as his research assistant in his run for the Presidency. She worked closely with him and his academic advisory group on position papers for his campaign, and the President-elect asked her to stay on during the transitio