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Kennedy Letters

Jackie Kennedy Letters Returned to Kennedys

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
October / November 2014

September 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment

The private letters of Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest caused controversy last May when the Vincentian Fathers at All Hallows College in Dublin announced they were being put up for auction. The letters, written between 1950 and 1965 to Rev. Joseph Leonard, a resident of All Hallows, were subsequently removed from the auction, and their fate had been uncertain until the … [Read more...] about Jackie Kennedy Letters Returned to Kennedys

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