Lee Harvey Oswald coffin up for sale
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:32 pm
This is certainly one of the strangest news articles I've ever read.
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A Los Angeles auction house said on Tuesday it would sell the simple pine coffin in which Oswald was buried for almost 20 years.Bidding will start at $1,000 (£640), but the item is expected to fetch strong interest from museums and collectors of presidential memorabilia when it goes under the hammer on Dec. 16."There's just a lot of interest in Kennedy and anything to do with his assassination," said Laura Yntema, auction manager at Santa Monica, California-based Nate D. Sanders.Read More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8173272/Lee-Harvey-Oswald-coffin-up-for-sale.html
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A Los Angeles auction house said on Tuesday it would sell the simple pine coffin in which Oswald was buried for almost 20 years.Bidding will start at $1,000 (£640), but the item is expected to fetch strong interest from museums and collectors of presidential memorabilia when it goes under the hammer on Dec. 16."There's just a lot of interest in Kennedy and anything to do with his assassination," said Laura Yntema, auction manager at Santa Monica, California-based Nate D. Sanders.Read More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8173272/Lee-Harvey-Oswald-coffin-up-for-sale.html