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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/jfk-photos-sold-at-new-york-auction.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A rare image of Marilyn Monroe with John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy fetched 151,000 dollars" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-jfk-photos-sold-at-new-york-auction.jpg" alt="A rare image of Marilyn Monroe with John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy fetched 151,000 dollars"/></a></p>
<p>A trove of John F Kennedy pictures by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, including a rare image of Marilyn Monroe with the president and Robert Kennedy at a Democratic fund-raiser, fetched 151,000 dollars (£95,500) at auction.</p>
<p>The Monroe photograph, contained in an envelope labelled &#8220;Sensitive Material &#8211; May 19, 1962&#8221; with 22 other gelatin silver prints of the event, sold for 9,150 dollars (£5,790), above its pre-sale estimate of 4,000-to 6,000 dollars (£2,530-£3,797).</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the only image of the three of them together,&#8221; said Matthew Haley, Bonhams&#8217; expert for books, manuscripts and historical photographs. &#8220;There are very few prints of this photo.&#8221;</p>
<p>The collection was offered by Stoughton&#8217;s estate at Bonhams auction house in New York. It included 12,000 photographs, and was estimated to bring 200,000 dollars (£126,500).</p>
<p>Stoughton was the first official White House photographer. He captured public as well as intimate Kennedy moments. About 60% of the images are of public events. The rest are of private moments &#8211; the children&#8217;s birthday parties, family Christmases, and vacations in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.</p>
<p>One of Stoughton&#8217;s most famous images shows Lyndon Johnson being sworn in aboard Air Force One following Kennedy&#8217;s assassination on November 22 1963.</p>
<p>The photo shows Johnson with his hand raised taking the oath of office surrounded by his wife and Jacqueline Kennedy still wearing her blood-splattered dress. It sold for 13,420 dollars (£8,493), above its pre-sale estimate of 5,000-7,000 dollars.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is one of the most iconic images of the 20th century,&#8221; said Mr Haley.</p>
<p>Johnson signed it: &#8220;To Cecil Stoughton, with high regards and appreciation, Lyndon B Johnson.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the immediate chaotic aftermath of the assassination, Stoughton learned that Johnson was being sworn in on the aircraft on a Dallas airfield and rushed over in a car, said Mr Haley. As he was running across the Tarmac, &#8220;the Secret Service thought it was another assassination attempt and almost fired at him&#8221;.</p>
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