Found: JFK’s coconut
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shell SOS
Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson ended their article on JFK and the PTIO9 in your January issue with a query as to the whereabouts of JFK’s coco nut shell SOS. Shortly after reading the article I happened to notice on TV a promo for the Kennedy Presidential Library (and Museum) in which the coconut shell was prominently featured as one of the exhibits.
The Danielssons will no doubt be pleased to note that at least the coconut’s fate is not uncertain. Since it is no longer in the possession of the Ken nedy family perhaps the Danielssons would like to promote the idea of an inter museum loan between the museum at the Kennedy Presi dential Library in Boston, Mas sachusetts, and the Lumberi
Resort War Museum in the Solomons?
Larry Wentworth
30 Elmwood Ave Braintree Mass. 02184
Usa
The quarter of a coconut shell with Lt. Kennedy’s message on it, which is housed today in the Kennedy Presidential Library (and museum) in Boston, Mas sachusetts.-Photo by Elliott Erwitt, Magnum.