JFK diary sells at auction

A diary kept by a young John F. Kennedy during his brief stint as a journalist after World War II in which he reflected on Adolf Hitler and expressed doubts about the fledgling United Nations sold for $718,750 Wednesday, according to an auction house. The winner plans to add it to his personal collection, auction officials said.

The 61-page diary was written in 1945 when the 28year-old Kennedy was a correspondent for Hearst newspapers and traveled through a devastated Europe.

In the diary, Kennedy reflected on his time in a gutted Berlin and even saw Hitler’s bunker, speculating that the German dictator was not killed.

The seller, a former JFK campaign research assistant, wanted the sale to coincide with this year’s 100th anniversary of Kennedy’s birth.