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JFK’s last birthday: Gifts, champagne and wandering hands on the presidential yacht

JFK’s last birthday: Gifts, champagne and wandering hands on the presidential yacht

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Jefferson Morley
May 26, 2017
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On May 29, 1963, Kennedy and about two dozen others boarded the 104-foot Sequoia, the presidential yacht, for a dinner party cruise down the Potomac River. It was a family-and-friends-only affair. Aside from a few Secret Service agents, the roster of guests gleamed with a touch of Hollywood — actors David Niven (“Separate Tables” and “The Pink Panther”)…

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