Jerry Brown concerned by Sotheby's auction of his dad's rare JFK papers

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown is questioning a Sotheby's selloff of rare JFK papers tied to his late father and wonders why they aren't part of the public archives

SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Jerry Brown is questioning a Sotheby's selloff of rare JFK papers tied to his late father, Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, and wonders why they aren't part of the public archives.

Pete Hanff, assistant director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, said that Pat Brown was a prolific governor, and that Bancroft houses 763 boxes of material from his governorship, in addition to dozens more volumes of material related to his time in office in California. The father of Jerry Brown was the state’s attorney general from 1951-59 and governor from 1959-67.

Jerry Brown, who was informed of the sale when contacted by POLITICO, confirmed this week he is not selling his father’s papers, and — to his knowledge — neither are members of his family.

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