Desk carved with 'JFK' isn't Kennedy's

It seemed too good to be true: An old wooden desk carved with the initials "JFK" from the private school in Connecticut where John F. Kennedy studied as a boy.

That's because it was.

The desk was the centerpiece of a new exhibition in November at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston devoted to the 35th president's early years, even though the museum put it into storage in 1993 after school officials said it was clear to them the desk wasn't Kennedy's. It had been displayed from 1979 to 1993 as Kennedy's desk from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut.