LOS ANGELES – For the JFK-assassination conspiracy junkie who has everything: Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin. Body not included.
A Los Angeles auction house said yesterday it would sell the simple pine coffin in which the suspected assassin of president John F Kennedy was buried for almost 20 years.
The coffin was unearthed in October 1981 after a legal dispute between Oswald’s widow, Marina, and his brother, Robert. Marina successfully sought an exhumation to test a conspiracy theory that a lookalike Russian agent had been buried in her husband’s place.
A medical exam showed the badly decomposed body was indeed Oswald’s, and he was reburied in a new coffin.
The original coffin, which had suffered extensive water damage, is being sold by Baumgardner Funeral Home. Bidding will start at $1,000 (€763). – (Reuters)