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Re: Jackie Kennedy's Pink Dress



If my recollection serves correctly, I believe that it was the late Jackie Kennedy Onais that requested the dress not be displayed.  I believe a family member boxed the dress up upon Jackie's return to the White House, with instructions that it was not to be opened.  I believe I gleamed this information from either The History Channel or Biography.

Deborah I. Gouin
Department Analyst
Records and Forms Management Division
Department of Management and Budget
State of Michigan
517-335-8965

>>> cnowicke@INDIANA.EDU 07/27/00 12:19PM >>>
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Warner, Kevan wrote:

> but why store something no one is allowed to see?

It is a question more political than legal. There are non-paper objects in
the archives which were evidence in trials. I can't believe the dress was
evidence, there was plenty of other evidence--and the car certainly isn't
in a vault at NARA.

I note that the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology has bits of Lincoln's
skull on display--as well as the pancreas of the person who assassinated
James Garfield, and various museums have items with Lincoln's blood on
them.

Carole Nowicke
cnowicke@indiana.edu  <http://php.ucs.indiana.edu/~cnowicke>

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