CHICAGO — A Chicago-area auction house selling 11 love letters that then-Senator John F. Kennedy wrote to one of his lovers. WBBM’s Regine Schlesinger reports the bidding started yesterday at $25,000 and could go as high as $100,000 by the time the auction ends on March 3rd.
It’s the same auction house that sold a lock of Elvis’ hair for 100-thousand. Now, Doug Allen, president of Legendary Auctions in suburban Lansing, says they have a set of 11 letters that the future president wrote to Gunilla von Post, a Swedish woman with whom he carried on a 2-year affair that began on the French Riveria in 1953, just a month before his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.
The correspondence and the affair ended in 1955 when then-Senator Kennedy already was thinking about running for president 4 years later. Some of the letters are written on US Senate stationery.
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