From the Dec. 19, 2010 Chicago Tribune "Casket that held Lee Harvey Oswald sells at auction for $87K" by Rob Manker.
As coffins go, it is definitely not fancy, just an old pine box, but it sold at auction for $87,000 to an unidentified buyer (perhaps the individual on the knoll?)
The price went from $37,000 to the final price in the last two hours. The auction house, Nate D. Sanders Auctioneers, expected it to sell for $60,000. The story about the auction was on over 40 different Russian websites, which is not too common and makes you wonder.
Oswald was arrested Nov. 22, 1963, for the assassination of President Kennedy and shot to death two days later by Jack Ruby. Ever since then, there have been many conspiracy theories put forth.
The coffin was dug up in 1981 to verify that the body in it was Oswald's. His remains were buried in a different coffin because the original was damaged.
Nearly 30 years later, the coffin was among many Oswald-related items offered for sale by the Baumgardner Funeral Home in Fort Worth, Texas. Other items sold included the embalming table, instruments used in the embalming and a first draft of the death certificate.
Two chunks of the seat on which Kennedy was riding sold in separate auctions for more than $18,000 each.
Auction house owner Nate D. Sanders said, "People collect anything about the JFK assassination and they pay big prices for it."
After All these Years. --DaCoot
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