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John F. Kennedy featured in the original 1940 Harvard Class Album, the official Harvard University yearbook documenting the Class of 1940. This substantial hardcover volume includes Kennedy’s student portrait and biographical entry alongside his Harvard classmates, offering a firsthand record of his undergraduate years immediately preceding World War II.

Kennedy entered Harvard College in 1936 and was a member of the Class of 1940. During his time at Harvard, he studied government and international affairs and was deeply influenced by global politics in the years leading up to the Second World War. His senior thesis, “Why England Slept,” examined Britain’s lack of preparedness for war and was later revised and published as a commercially successful book—an early indicator of Kennedy’s intellectual ambition and emerging public voice.

While at Harvard, Kennedy participated in campus life and athletics and cultivated interests that would later define his public career, including foreign policy, history, and leadership. His years at Harvard coincided with extensive travel in Europe, further shaping his worldview and laying the foundation for his later service as a U.S. Navy officer and, ultimately, as President of the United States.

The album is bound in its original publisher’s boards with gilt titling and embossed imagery. Kennedy appears under his full name, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, with his student photograph and accompanying class entry. The volume also includes extensive portraits, biographies, and institutional photography documenting the Harvard Class of 1940 in full.

Overall good condition with some light age wear to the cover and spine.

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Includes a full letter of authenticity from JG Autographs, Inc.

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Reference sku: 11675 1414293-1