{"id":184330,"date":"2021-02-21T06:02:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T03:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jfks-harvard-sweater-auctioned-for-85000\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T06:02:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T03:02:40","slug":"jfks-harvard-sweater-auctioned-for-85000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jfks-harvard-sweater-auctioned-for-85000\/","title":{"rendered":"#JFK&#8217;s Harvard sweater auctioned for $85,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#JFK&#8217;s Harvard sweater auctioned for $85,000<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/JFK-sweater-blur.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>John F. Kennedy\u2019s Harvard sweater was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rrauction.com\/browse_gallery.cfm?Category=0&amp;SortOrder=HP&amp;SearchCrit=%20%20&amp;ByItem=\">sold at auction<\/a> for more than $85,000 \u2014 some than 60 years after it was given away to a TV cameraman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The red wool cardigan, which features a large \u201cH\u201d on the left breast and eight white mother-of-pearl buttons, was gaveled off this month to an undisclosed buyer at the Boston-based RR auction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JFK\u2019s surname is also sewn into the sweater, which had been given to a CBS cameraman who said he felt cold during an interview with Jacqueline Kennedy in 1964, a year after JFK was assassinated in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The special President\u2019s Day auction featured several items from more than a dozen former US presidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A signed photo of Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad was purchased for more than $135,000. <\/p>\n<p>A lottery ticket signed by George Washington went for $26,000, and a letter Ronald Reagan wrote to his daughter was sold for nearly $24,000.<\/p>\n<p>Memorabilia and personal items from John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew Jackson, among other former presidents, were also auctioned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>With wires<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Kennedy\u2019s Harvard sweater was sold at auction for more than $85,000 \u2014 some than 60 years after it was given away to a TV cameraman.\u00a0 The red wool cardigan, which features a large \u201cH\u201d on the left breast and eight white mother-of-pearl buttons, was gaveled off this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/JFK-sweater-blur.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94366,70728,73450,5378,83628,76714,79279],"class_list":["post-184330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-20-21","tag-auctions","tag-harvard-university","tag-history","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-memorabilia","tag-us-presidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}