{"id":21980,"date":"2024-05-01T11:19:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T15:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=21980"},"modified":"2024-05-01T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T20:31:04","slug":"bible-used-by-jackie-kennedy-after-jfks-assassination-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2024\/05\/bible-used-by-jackie-kennedy-after-jfks-assassination-up-for-auction","title":{"rendered":"Bible Used by Jackie Kennedy After JFK&#8217;s Assassination Up For Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21995\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2024\/05\/JFK-and-Jackie_credit-by-KraljAleksandar-deviantart-Inset-Heritage-Auction-HA.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21995\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2024\/05\/JFK-and-Jackie_credit-by-KraljAleksandar-deviantart-Inset-Heritage-Auction-HA-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KraljAleksandar \/ Deviantart.com | Inset: Heritage Auction \/ HA.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Bible used by former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis after the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, is up for auction. Currently bidding at $36,000, Heritage Auctions, one of the world\u2019s largest auctioneers of collectibles, <a href=\"https:\/\/historical.ha.com\/itm\/political\/small-paper-1896-present-\/john-f-kennedy-inauguration-bible-used-by-jackie-kennedy-for-jfk-s-funeral-service\/a\/6286-43193.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515\">has listed<\/a> the \u201cJohn F. Kennedy: Inauguration Bible Used by Jackie Kennedy for JFK\u2019s Funeral Service.\u201d The bidding recently ended.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Kennedy, who died years after her late husband from non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1994 and remarried in 1968, left a message in the Bible. The inscription reads, \u201cBible we used the night Jack died to choose Ecclesiastes to be read at his funeral. JBK 1963.\u201d\u00a0 The passage in question (Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8) is highlighted on page 740.<\/p>\n<p>The New Catholic Edition Illustrated Bible measures 5.75 inches by 8.25 inches and was gifted by Richard Cardinal Cushing, the archbishop of Boston, from 1944 to 1970. Despite some glue discoloration to the bookplate, the auctioneer advertises the Bible in otherwise \u201cexcellent\u201d condition.\u00a0The auction description reads, \u201cThe cover is gold-stamped on the bottom \u2018January 20, 1961,\u2019 coinciding with JFK\u2019s inauguration. The flyleaf has an attached bookplate for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, featuring the Presidential Seal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xFxVwJcV9Tc?si=AjUaOj048CTomK6A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to Heritage, the consignor\u2019s mother served on Cushing\u2019s staff and received many artifacts and mementos after his death. \u201cMrs. Kennedy also had a close spiritual relation with the Cardinal,\u201d the auction page states. \u201cThis is not the Kennedy Family Bible used to take the oath of office, but a significant artifact closely associated with the assassination and funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Lindner, director of Americana at Heritage Auctions, told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/20\/us-news\/bible-jackie-kennedy-read-from-for-jfks-funeral-up-for-auction\/\">The New York Post<\/a>\u00a0that the Bible could fetch as much as $50,000.\u00a0\u201cWe&#8217;ve had many Kennedy artifacts go well past that,&#8221; he was quoted as saying, noting that rocking chairs owned by Kennedy have sold for over $400,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bible used by former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis after the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, is up for auction. Currently bidding at $36,000, Heritage Auctions, one of the world\u2019s largest auctioneers of collectibles, has listed the \u201cJohn F. Kennedy: Inauguration Bible Used by Jackie Kennedy for JFK\u2019s Funeral Service.\u201d The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":21995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[157,48],"tags":[2219,3884,3881],"class_list":["post-21980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-catholic","tag-bible","tag-jackie-kennedy","tag-jfk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bible Used by Jackie Kennedy After JFK&#039;s Assassination Up For Auction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Bible used by former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis after the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F. 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