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Lee Harvey Oswald coffin up for sale

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:32 pm
by Solace
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

RE: Lee Harvey Oswald coffin up for sale

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:04 am
by lukes
there will always be strange news related to kennedy's death :)

RE: Lee Harvey Oswald coffin up for sale

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:13 pm
by sscadmin
I guess you can really sell anything :)They don't show the condition of this pine coffin. I'm sure its not that good for being wood and in the ground for 20 years. Hopefully this won't start a coffin collecting phase for collectors.

RE: Lee Harvey Oswald coffin up for sale

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 3:36 pm
by Solace

Darkone wrote:
I guess you can really sell anything :)They don't show the condition of this pine coffin. I'm sure its not that good for being wood and in the ground for 20 years. Hopefully this won't start a coffin collecting phase for collectors.
lolnext: John Wilkes Boothe's coffin up for sale lol