George Mendonsa Signed Autographed Index Card - The Kissing Sailor WWII V-J Day

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George Mendonsa Signed Autographed Index Card - The Kissing Sailor WWII V-J Day:
$75.00

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Here I am offering an exceedinglyrare index card that\'s been inscribed & signed by George Mendonsa.George is \"The Kissing Sailor\" in Alfred Eisenstaedt\'s infamous V-J Day photo that was taken on August 14, 1945 in Times Square, NYC. The woman in the legendary photo is Greta Friedman.
Writing Instrument: Blue Ball-Point Pen
Actual Size: 3\" x 5\"
Condition: Excellent
Would make a fantastic addition to ANY collection!
GEORGE MENDONSA

George Mendonsa ofNewport, Rhode Island, on leave from the \"USSThe Sullivans\" (DD-537), was watching a movie with his future wife, Rita,at \"Radio City Music Hall\"when the doors opened & people started screaming that the war was over.George &Rita joined the partying on the street, but when they could not get into the packed bars, decided to walk down the street. It was then that George saw a woman in a white dress walk by &took her into his arms & kissed her. \"I had quite a few drinks that day & I considered her one of the troops—she was a nurse\".In one of the four pictures that Eisenstaedt took, Mendonsa claims that Rita is visible in the background behind the kissing couple.

In 1987, George Mendonsa filed a lawsuit against \"Time Inc.\" in Rhode Island state court, alleging that he was the sailor in the photograph & that both \"Time\" & \"Life\" had violated his right of publicity by using the photograph without his permission. After \"Time Inc.\" removed the case to federal court, Mendonsa survived a motion to dismiss.

Mendonsa was identified by a team of volunteers from the \"Naval War College\"in August 2005 as \"the kisser\". His claim was based on matching his scars & tattoos to scars & tattoos in the photograph.They made their determination after much study including photographic analysis by the \"Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories\"(MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who were able to match scars & tattoo spotted by photograph experts, & the testimony of Richard M. Benson, a photograph analysis expert, professor of photographic studies, plus the former Dean of the \"School of Arts at Yale University\". Benson stated that \"it is therefore my opinion, based upon a reasonable degree of certainty, that George Mendonsa is the sailor in Mr. Eisenstaedt\'s famous photograph.\"

GRETA ZIMMER FRIEDMAN

Galdorisi & Verria used interviews of claimants, expert photo analysis, identifying people in the background & consultations with forensic anthropologists & facial recognition specialists. They concluded that the woman wasGreta Zimmer Friedman& that she was wearing her dental hygienist uniform in the photograph.

\"It wasn’t my choice to be kissed,\" Friedman stated in a 2005 interview with the \"Library of Congress\".\"The guy just came over & grabbed me!\" she said, adding, \"That man was very strong. I wasn’t kissing him. He was kissing me\".\"I did not see him approaching &before I knew it I was in his tight grip,\" Friedman told \"CBS News\" in 2012.Friedman died at age 92 on September 8, 2016, in Richmond, Virginia, due to health complications of old age.

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