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Judge to Decide Ownership of ‘Jackie Letter’

DALLAS (AP).- A federal judge will decide who owns a condolence note Jacqueline Kennedy wrote to her widowed sister-in-law following Robert Kennedy’s 1968 assassination, after one of the former senator’s children raised concerns it might have been stolen. The FBI seized the note in 2009 from Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries. Jacqueline Kennedy addressed it “My Ethel,” and in it, she expresses concern for the couple’s children following their father’s death in the midst of his presidential campaign. The letter appears to have been written shortly after Robert Kennedy’s funeral. It has changed hands several times over the years and sold for as much as $25,000. It was put up for sale in 2006 by collector Richard Goodkin, of Framingham, Mass. Then Max Kennedy learned of the offer and sought an investigation into whether the note had been stolen from his parents’ home in McLean, Va. Neither his mother nor