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KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963). Teletype announcement of the Kennedy assassination. Dallas, 22 November 1963. 1 page, small 4to (273 x 216 mm), old folds. In part: “President Kennedy is dead. He was killed by an assassin in Dallas…He was shot as he rode in a motorcade through downtown Dallas…Mrs. Kennedy held her husband’s limp body in her arms when he toppled over in the backseat of the open car…Police found a foreign-make rifle. Sheriff’s officers are questioning a young man picked up at the scene…The shots appeared to have come from a grassy knoll near the street the motorcade was moving along…”