to risk a new war or to go on with west Germany`s recovery into a stabile European force. what was Kennedy wearing, when he spoke the famous words " Ich bin ein Berliner..." ? was it a square Zenith ? kind regards. achim
The only pictures I can find looks like he was bare wristed. Maybe you can come up with something more definitive.
From: WatchTime magazine Election Season Special December 2008 http://www.watchtime.com/featured/watch-u-s-presidents-timepieces/ When he took the oath of office on January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy wore an Omega Ultra Thin (Reference OT3980) given to him by the Florida senator Grant Stockdale. The caseback bore the inscription “President of the United States John F. Kennedy from his friend Grant.” Stockdale was clearly an optimist: he had given Kennedy the watch the prior summer, months before Kennedy’s hair’s-breadth win in November. (In December 2005, the Omega Museum, in Bienne, Switzerland, bought the watch at auction for $420,000.) Jacqueline Kennedy wrote a letter to Stockdale thanking him for the gift and graciously describing it as “nicer than the watch I gave him.” We don’t know what watch she was referring to, but Jacqueline Kennedy did give her husband a Louis Cartier Tank watch on their fourth wedding anniversary in 1957. The President was wearing this watch when he was assassinated in 1963. Kennedy received at least one other notable gift watch: a Hamilton given him in 1962 by then governor of Pennsylvania David Lawrence. The watch’s dial bore photo-engraved pictures of Kennedy’s children, Caroline and John. In 1962, the story goes, Marilyn Monroe gave John F. Kennedy a birthday gift: a gold Rolex with the inscription “Jack, With love as always, from Marilyn, May 29th 1962.” The president was anything but grateful. Knowing that the watch would be seen as evidence of an intimate relationship with the actress, he gave it to an aide, Kenneth O’Donnell, along with a note instructing him to “get rid of” it. In 2005, the watch, the antique box containing it and a love poem Monroe had placed in the box sold at auction for $120,000. As many watch fans know, presidential history is loaded with horological tidbits like this. Now, as a new president takes the stage, bringing the possibility of even more such tidbits, WatchTime reviews some of the more interesting lore about past presidents and their timepieces.
Someone at WatchTime needs to do a little fact checking. Grant Stockdale was never a "senator", not in the US Congress or the Florida Legislature. He was the chairman of JFK's campaign in Florida in 1960 and was later appointed as Ambassador to Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Stockdale They know their watches, but not their history. gatorcpa