Exchange with Senator Javits about R. Lamm's Sermon on President Kennedy's Assassination (1963)

1. Samuel Badian to Senator Javits (Dec. 6, 1963)

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Exchange with Dr. Kaminetsky about Abridging Sermon on President Kennedy's Assassination (1963)

Dear Norman: Thank you for your letter of December 5th and I can see your point. I will choose your latter alternative. You write the accompanying editorial note, abbreviate the article and I will carry on from there. I would not think of passing up a chance to print an article under what has become now a famous by-line, baruch Hashem, Rabbi Norman Lamm. Good luck to you on your trip to South Africa. Sincerely yours, Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky

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Exchange with Toba Kimball about R. Lamm's Sermon on President Kennedy's Assassination (1964)

Dear Rabbi, belatedly, but nonetheless sincerely, we want you to know of our deep appreciation for sending us your sermon. The sermon given as a tribute to J.F. Kennedy was fantastic and it will be kept and reread by us many times. We are all well here. With Gary away at school and Ilene leaving in September, Nardy and I feel that we are almost entering into our original status of aloneness. A cycle almost complete. It does give funny and sad steps to think of it.

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Letter from Irving Mehler about R. Lamm's Sermon on President Kennedy's Assassination (1963)

Dear Norman: Thank you very much for your thoughtfulness in sending me a copy of your recent sermon touching upon the demise of the late President Kennedy. Your sermon was excellent and quite touching. Yet, the heightened solemnity of the occasion in reference to the man, his position, his ideals and his strivings and accomplishments makes language – to paraphrase one of your statements – a woefully inadequate instrument of communication pertaining to the many nuances of feeling attached to this particular situation. Words truly fail here. We are all fine and we trust this finds you, Mindy and the children in the best of health and spirits. With warmest personal regards from all of us, I remain Sincerely, Irving Mehler.

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