On the block: JFK, Marilyn Monroe items from the iconic ‘happy birthday’ night in NYC
nypost.comThe gifts from this birthday party 60 years ago just keep on coming.Marilyn Monroe’s sultry rendition of “Happy Birthday” during a gala celebrating President John F.
Kennedy’s 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962, was followed by an exclusive afterparty at the East 69th Street townhouse of then-Democratic National Committee co-chairman Arthur Krim and his wife, Dr.
Mathilde Krim, who later founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research.The family is now putting up the artifacts from that night on the auction block on Oct.
13 and the items — including a once-secret photo of Monroe and JFK sharing a moment — are expected to bring in $40,000 to $60,000.The only known photo of JFK and Marilyn together that night, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, is among 18 other originals taken at the event.
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