Kennedy was a little over a month into his presidency when he received a gift from an American University professor—the aforementioned etching on silk made by Hungarian refugee artists in Austria—generating this response. Nearly 250,000 people left the Hungary during the brief time that the borders were open in the wake of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and continued to defect during tyrannical social rule, including these artists who sought refuge in Vienna. Accompanied by a full Letter of Authenticity from PSA/DNA.