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Where the bible went for 2 days

1/26/2018

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Boston.com
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2018/01/18/phil-murphy-inauguration-jfk
When newly sworn-in New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy took the oath of office this week, eagle-eyed regulars of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston may have recognized something familiar.

Specifically, a 168-year-old book.
Murphy, who cites Robert and John F. Kennedy as his heroes, used the same leather-bound Bible Tuesday that the then-43-year-old president used during his inauguration in 1961. The Fitzgerald family Bible, which dates back to 1850, was brought from Ireland to the United States by Kennedy’s ancestors and contains more than a century of the family’s handwritten notes.
It was later gifted by the family to the JFK Library, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).  See link to full story above.

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