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PERSONAL OFFICE ITEMS FROM THE COLLECTION OF BURKE MARSHALL, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY. c.1960-1975. image 1
PERSONAL OFFICE ITEMS FROM THE COLLECTION OF BURKE MARSHALL, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY. c.1960-1975. image 2
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PERSONAL OFFICE ITEMS FROM THE COLLECTION OF BURKE MARSHALL, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY.
c.1960-1975.

14 October 2020, 13:00 EDT
New York

US$1,500 - US$2,000

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PERSONAL OFFICE ITEMS FROM THE COLLECTION OF BURKE MARSHALL, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY.

c.1960-1975. A fine grouping of office items owned by Burke Marshall, including his brown leather briefcase, with metal clasp and combination lock, lettered in gilt "Burke Marshall"; together with his late 1960s cream and black Crown 890 manual typewriter in its hard case; and a very modern designed Western Electric desk-phone, plastic and aluminum, with a retractable phone cord and central dialing mechanism.

A fine group of office objects from Burke Marshall's career in Washington DC in the 1960s and 1970s. Burke Marshall (1922-2003) was a translator in the army in the Pacific Theater, in WW2, and afterwards studied law at Yale and graduated in 1951. In 1961 he was appointed Assistant Attorney General under Robert Kennedy, and worked through the Kennedy and Johnson administrations guiding through Civil Rights legislation, but left office in 1965. He went back to law practice and became a Professor of Law at Yale.

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