04/29/09 There Is A Historic Watch With Greenwich Connections That Is Not Being Sold By Terry Betterridge

Watch said to have belonged to Bobby Kennedy in city auction

Plymouth Evening Herald

A WATCH reputed to have belonged to Bobby Kennedy, the brother of President John F Kennedy, is to be auctioned in Plymouth next month.

Its long-time owner was a Scottish lady, Millie Craig, who worked for 31 years from 1957 as a chef for George Skakel, the brother of Bobby's widow Ethel.

The Kennedys used to congregate at weekends at the Skakel home in Greenwich, Connecticut, in the USA, where Mrs Craig cooked for them.

While working there she lost her fob watch at the house, and to make up for it she was given the gent's Rolex wristwatch, which belonged to Bobby Kennedy – but who never wore it.

He, like his brother, was assassinated – during celebrations of a successful campaign in 1968 for the Democratic party's nomination for President.

Mrs Craig cherished the watch all her life, wearing it night and day, and handed it down to her daughter in Plymouth, who has now decided to sell it by auction. She has retained some press clippings from the 1970s featuring the watch, but unfortunately there is no other evidence to confirm it belonged to Bobby Kennedy, apart from her intriguing story.

Back then, she said of the watch: "I never take it off because it has sentimental value. Bobby Kennedy was a particularly outstanding man. The watch is a fine remembrance of a great man." .....

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I shouted out,
Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste - Sympathy for the Devil, Mick Jagger

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We simply, really, don't.

We are led by moral cowards.

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Today we live in a society that still has not rebuilt the homes of the poor of New Orleans, but bailed out bankers hedge fund guys.