Sold – An Inscribed Signature of John F. Kennedy as President, Signed in the Oval Office for Football Player Jim Castiglia
Jim Castiglia was a football fullback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles. He also played for the Baltimore Colts of the All America Football Conference, and even put in a stint as a baseball player with the Philadelphia Athletics. Later he was president of the...
Jim Castiglia was a football fullback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles. He also played for the Baltimore Colts of the All America Football Conference, and even put in a stint as a baseball player with the Philadelphia Athletics. Later he was president of the Washington DC Touchdown Club. In 1961 the Touchdown Club decided to make President Kennedy an honorary member, and representatives were invited to the White House where they met the President and presented him with the honorary membership. A photograph of that meeting showing Castiglia standing to the left of the President is on the Kennedy Library website.
An inscribed signature obtained at that time on Kennedy’s very uncommon notepaper, “From the Desk of John F. Kennedy,” reading “To the Castiglias, Best Wishes, John Kennedy.” We obtained this directly from the Castiglia descendants, and it has never before been offered for sale.
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