For sale: Final resting place of JFK's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (body not included)
Yet, as unlikely as it may seem, the casket in which the body of President John F Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald lay for 20 years is to be sold at auction.
A Los Angeles auction house yesterday announced the simple pine coffin will go to the highest bidder on December 16.
Bidding will start at $1,000, but the item is expected to fetch much more due to strong interest from museums and collectors of presidential memorabilia.
The auction also includes several instruments that were used to embalm Oswald, his death certificate, an Easter card he sent to his brother, and a section of the car seat on which President Kennedy was sitting when he was shot.
Laura Yntema, auction manager at Nate D Sanders in Santa Monica California, said: 'There's just a lot of interest in Kennedy and anything to do with his assassination.'
After authorities conducted an autopsy on Oswald, he was buried in Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas.
The burial plot's original tombstone, which gave Oswald's full name and the dates of his birth and death, was stolen and was replaced by a marker simply inscribed 'Oswald'.
But the coffin was unearthed in October 1981 after a legal dispute between Oswald's widow, Marina, and his brother, Robert.
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