• “Strangers carved up Camelot yesterday and carted off auctioned pieces of John F. Kennedy’s legacy . . . after his children reached a last-minute settlement with the auction’s major donor.” --Boston Globe

• “Caroline and John Kennedy should feel satisfied that they have kept faith with their parents’ privacy . . . by taking the actions necessary to recover these items.” --Paul G. Kirk Jr., Chairman, Kennedy Library Foundation

• “Sparsely attended and sometimes lackluster, the . . . auction that had alarmed the Kennedy family began . . . with low bids and some lots going unsold.” --Detroit News

• JFK SALE NETS CAM-ALOT! --New York Post, early edition

• JFK SALE A BUST --New York Daily News, early edition

• JFK SALE IS CAM-E-LITTLE! --New York Post, late edition

• “I’m just glad some things are going low enough that regular people can afford them.” --Robert White, the auction’s main collector

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