Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin Up For Auction

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Dec 1st 2010 at 10:01PM

A Santa Monica auction house has a grim lot up for auction, the pine coffin in which the suspected assassin of President John F Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald was buried for almost 20 years. The coffin was unearthed in 1981 as a consequence of a dispute between Oswald's widow Marina and his brother Robert. Marina sought an exhumation believing that a Russian agent had been buried in her husband's place. After a medical examination proved the body was Oswald's, he was reburied in a new casket. The coffin is being sold by Baumgardner Funeral home, the undertaker that handled the reburial. The bidding at Nate D Sanders auction house will start at $1,000.

[via the Guardian]

Tags: coffin, lee harvey oswald, nate d sanders

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Derek Dec 2nd 2010 8:42AM

This story bores me stiff.

Lee Dec 2nd 2010 8:51AM

Good one!

Robert Dec 2nd 2010 1:17PM

its an historical item its valuable

Dean Dec 2nd 2010 2:09PM

Thanks for the laugh Derek.

leon Dec 2nd 2010 8:46AM

If you win the bidding on it , is the shipping free?

trmnatr2 Dec 2nd 2010 8:57AM

It could be a nice conversation piece when you have a party at your house.

Louis Dec 2nd 2010 9:09AM

I don't know what demented person would bid on this item. I suppose you could use it for a Halloween buffet dinner party. "Chicken in the Casket" might be a delectable treat. :-)~

jake192168 Dec 2nd 2010 10:18AM

it should be used as a latrine

CuriousBystander Dec 2nd 2010 6:34PM

I understand there are actually TWO coffins. Another was unearthed from the grassy knoll.

roberta_hillard Dec 3rd 2010 7:50PM

there is no other coffina that came from the grassy knoll i was at the grassy knoll between 2004 through 2006 and there are no (cemetary)

hhecuba Dec 2nd 2010 10:26AM

I would rather have the gun that Jackie used to shoot her husband and governer Conally.

smapplebee Dec 2nd 2010 6:50PM

I believe you are right. She was one cold cookie.

stephen Dec 2nd 2010 10:39AM

No thanks, i wouldn't even use it for firewood.

Barbara Matthews Dec 2nd 2010 4:45PM

No....pine doesn't burn well.

stephen Dec 2nd 2010 9:08PM

Try telling that to Smokey the Bear.

BILL Dec 2nd 2010 10:53AM

there is absolutelt nothing what-so-ever to prove that lee harvey oswald killed kennedy, remember the kennedy family, it obtained it's vast wealth from the exact same method that al capone, and the roosevelt's got their's??? FACT>>>>>>>>
OH WOW,,, I WONDER IF THE US GOVERNMENT IS LYING TO US AS USUAL???
THEY AWAYS CALL IT A COVER UP???