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Typed Document Signed (“John F. Kennedy”), 2 pp, legal folio, September 13, 1957, allowing Gallu Productions to produce an episode recreating the PT-109 incident, creasing and some cellotape stains. Wonderful document from the first filmic recreation of the PT 109 incident, a few years prior to Kennedy’s run for the Presidency. In part: “I understand that you contemplate producing a motion picture, the working title of which is presently ‘PT 109 (The John F. Kennedy Story),’ as part of a series of television motion pictures presently entitled ‘Navy Log’...I hereby grant you the right and license to use my name and likeness and to portray, impersonate and/or simulate me or my voice, and/or to make use of any episodes in my life...including but not limited to any and all of my activities in or as a member of the United States Navy...” “Navy Log” was a documentary-style television program recreating stories gleaned from the Naval Archives, and aired on CBS and ABC from 1955-58. In 1957 it decided to feature the story of John F. Kennedy and his boat, PT-109. JFK was so excited about the filming of his story that he would travel to San Diego to consult for Gallu. See illustration.