Lot 581

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581. AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION OF CAPT. CARL KUNANIEC A superb collection of hundreds of signatures on large album pages, all gathered in-person by Capt. Carl Kunaniec, Chief of Security at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Airfield in the Fifities and Sixties. This is a veritable cross-section of the world's politicians, military men, entertainers and other notables, all written in ink on either single sides or both sides of a 9" x 11 1/2" white album page. Among those who signed for Capt Kumaniec are: JOHN KENNEDY, MARTIN LUTHER KING (adds: "Atlanta, Ga."), RONALD REAGAN, LYNDON B. JOHNSON as Vice President, with LADY BIRD JOHNSON, DWIGHT EISENHOWER with family members JOHN, MILTON and BARBARA EISENHOWER, HARRY TRUMAN, ROBERT KENNEDY, TED KENNEDY, JAMES MEREDITH, TRAN VAN CHONG, NAT KING COLE, GENE AUTREY, MRS. BABE RUTH, PIERRE SALINGER, FRANK ROBINSON, BILL DICKEY, WEEB EWBANK, TAB HUNTER, PAT NIXON, CARLOS P. ROMULO and his Vice President, DUNCAN RENALDO, MILTON BERLE, SAMMY DAVIS, JR., HENNY YOUNGMAN, DON DRYSDALE, MITCH MILLER, GEORGE RAFT, LYMAN LEMNITZER, DEAN RUSK, ESTES KEFAUVER, DREW PEARSON, CHRISTIAN HERTER, SPIRO AGNEW, JOYCE BROTHERS, JOHNNY CARSON, LORD MOUNTBATTEN, HUGH HEFNER, along with the 1963 Miss Universe, 1960 Miss America, six Playboy bunnies traveling with Hefner, as well as BLAZE STARR who adds a lipstick "lip print", all on the same page, ARTHUR GODFREY, EDWARD TELLER, JIM NABORS, WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS, EARL WARREN, ARTHUR J. BRENNAN, TOM C. CLARK, ALAN SHEPARD, JAYNE MANSFIELD, MICHAEL LANDON, DANNY THOMAS, JIMMY DURANTE, ROSEMARY CLOONEY, ART LINKLETTER and his daughter and later a drug-induced suicide, SHARON LINKLETTER, RICHARD DALEY, BOB HOPE. JIMMY STEWART, JAY NORTH, EDWARD R. MURROW, ROGER MARIS, WOODY ALLEN, JACK BENNY, SCOTT CARPENTER, JOHN GLENN, WALLY SCHIRRA and family, SHORTY POWERS, HUGH AUCHINCLOSS, ALLEN DULLES, ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JIMMY HOFFA, ROCKY MARCIANO (two signatures, one adding : "Keep Punching"), BILLY GRAHAM, CASEY STENGEL, LEE MARVIN, DAVID MCCALLUM, HANK BAUER, CHUCK ESTRADA, DONNA DOUGLAS and MAX BAER adding "Elly Mae" and "Jethro", EDDIE ALBERT, JOHNNY MIZE, WILLIE MAYS, BROOKS ROBINSON, and many more unresearched. With two original photos showing Kunaniec with Robert Kennedy and with John Kennedy (cornet taped, small rust spot). Overall in very good to fine condition. $2,000-3,000

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