Lot 109
Kennedy John 1917 - 1963 Rare gold ticket and Invitation to "Texas Welcome Dinner" for President Kennedy Nov 22, 1963 at 7:30pm
Two page folded printed invitation to the "1963 Texas Welcome Dinner". Located at the Municipal Auditorium, Austin, Texas. Center fold, with overall additional faint folds and creases, otherwise near fine. 7" x 9.5", folded to a 5" x 7".
With the accompanying gold ticket 4" x 2.5" to the event, No. D13808 in Fine condition. From the spectacular, unprecedented collection of Ronald Ellis Wade
Original invitation to the famous evening dinner that never was - One thousand days in office, and Kennedy was worried that the backlash from the Civil Rights issue would cost him the South. He would need Texas again, absolutely, and by more than the 46,000 vote margin he'd squeaked by with in '60. A trip was called for, to meet with rich Texas donors, and straighten out, if he could, the conservative-liberal split in the state's Democratic Party. The plan was to fly to Texas, make a half dozen appearances, and end the visit, on the night of November 22nd, in Austin, at a $100 a plate dinner for the State Democratic Executive Committee.
On the afternoon of the 22nd, at approximately half past noon, as President Kennedy rode in an open limousine in Dallas and, as became history, he never made it to the dinner that evening. This invitation and ticket would of course never be used.
The invitation states in full:
"In Honor of
President John F. Kennedy
And Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
The State Democratic Executive Committee
Requests the pleasure of your company
At the
Texas Welcome Dinner
On Friday evening the twenty-second of November
One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three
At half after seven o'clock
At the Municipal Auditorium
In the City of Austin..."
A rare set of sobering US history
Below is an interesting interview from TheHill.com, about Ron Wade and his collection of Presidential memorabilia:
Step into Ronald Wade's office and it's easy to see why he's listed in "Guinness World Records 2015" for the largest collection of U.S. presidential memorabilia - it's really a replica of the Oval Office.
"Actually, they quit counting," Wade says of his immense collection of White House and presidential campaign items, "because I probably have closer to 20,000 or 30,000 items, if not closer to 100,000 - that's with duplication." The official count from the folks behind the famed book puts Wade's collection in chief at 6,960 pieces as of last year.
The lifelong Republican has been racking up "practically anything that has to do with American politics" since he was 10 years old.
"My first memory in life is wearing an 'Like Ike' button, and I was probably 4 years old. So I've always been interested in politics," Wade, 64, tells ITK.
While much of the public might be disillusioned with warring politicians, Wade - who once served as a White House page for then-President Nixon - says talk of partisan bickering in Washington is overblown: "The friction between parties has been here as long as America has been here."
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