Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin sells for $87,469
December 17th, 2010 - 10:23 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattSanta Monica, Dec 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The coffin in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried between the time period from 1963 to 1981 was sold for a whooping $87,469.
It may be recalled that Lee Harvey Oswald had shot President John F. Kennedy and then he was buried in a wooden coffin in 1963. However later in 1981, a British national speculated that the body in the coffin was that of a Soviet agent. So Lee’s body was exhumed and then an autopsy was performed on him, which confirmed that it was indeed the body of Lee Harvey Oswald and not someone else’s.
After the exhumation, the remains of Lee Harvey Oswald were placed in a new coffin and then buried. Thus the wooden coffin that had previously housed his remains was now empty. Allen Baumgardner kept it in his funeral home, which is located in Texas. And now Allen sold that coffin to an unknown bidder for $87,469. However there were some speculations that the unknown bidder might be named as ‘Friday’.
The auction was held at Nate D. Sander Auctions in Santa Monica and the bidding started from a measly $1,000. There were many online bidders for the coffin as well.
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