LOS ANGELES — A ghoulish piece of American history is now up for sale to the highest bidder.
The modest wooden coffin that John F. Kennedy’s assassin was buried in for 18 years is being auctioned off by Allen Baumgardner, owner of Baumgardner Funeral Home in Fort Worth, Texas.
The brown pine box was dug up in 1981 to put to rest theories that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t in it. Dental records confirmed the remains did indeed belong to the man who shot the president in 1963. The body was then reburied in a new coffin at Rose Hill Memorial Cemetery in Fort Worth.
Baumgardner said he was selling the coffin, along with the original embalming equipment and paperwork, because he felt it was time to do something with it. Bidding opened at $1,000 on Tuesday at Nate D. Sanders Auctions of Santa Monica, Calif. They are being taken by phone and online through Dec. 16. The Associated Press
