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Document 251327

JACQUELINE KENNEDY
Admitting bearers to a Requiem Mass for Robert F. Kennedy.
ANS: "Jacqueline Kennedy", 3½x2¾ card. In full: "Please admit bearers to/Requiem Mass". No date. Engraved in the center: "Mrs. John Fitzgerald Kennedy". Address engraved in lower right: "1040 Fifth Avenue". Fine condition. With original blank envelope, embossed under flap: "tiffany & co. makers new york". Lightly soiled, overall fine. 1040 Fifth Avenue at East 85th Street was erected in 1930 and was designed by Rosario Candela, one of the city's most prominent designers of luxury apartment buildings in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The 17-story building has only 27 apartments. Jacqueline Kennedy moved to 1040 Fifth Avenue in 1964. Since Mrs. Kennedy changed her signature to "Jacqueline Onassis" after her marriage to Aristotle Onassis on October 20, 1968, this card most probably admitted mourners to a Requiem Mass for New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated on June 5, 1968. On May 20, 1994, her son, John F. Kennedy, Jr., made the following announcement to a crowd assembled in front of 1040 Fifth Avenue: "Last night at around 10:15 my mother passed on. She was surrounded by her friends and her family and her books-the people and the things that she loved." (To hear his announcement go to http://www.archervalerie.com/jfkjr.html) She was 64. Two items.

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