JFK wedding negatives sell for $34,000 at auction
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BOSTON (AP) — One black-and-white photograph captures a dapper John F. Kennedy slicing into his wedding cake. Another shows the family dog peeking out playfully from the folds of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy’s billowing white dress.
The images were among those imprinted on 13 original negatives from the Kennedys’ fairy-tale wedding that sold for $34,073 Wednesday to a doctor in Las Vegas, who declined to reveal his name, according to RR Auction in Boston.
The Kennedys were married on Sept. 12, 1953, at St. Mary’s Church in the well-heeled resort town of Newport, R.I., south of Boston.
The images, which went up for auction Sept. 26 with a $200 opening bid, show the wedding party posing outside, the newlyweds leaving the church and the couple cutting the wedding cake.
RR Auction said the images are attributed to freelance photographer Frank Ataman and were found in the darkroom of another photographer and have likely never been published.
Four are of the newlyweds, two show the entire wedding party, and the remainder show the cake, reception and wedding attendees.
The Kennedy wedding was a high society affair covered by Life magazine, drawing some 700 guests to the ceremony and 1,200 to the reception.
At the time, Kennedy was less than a year into his first term as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts and more than seven years from his election as the country’s first Roman Catholic president and its youngest elected head of state