If you've dreamed of owning Lee Harvey's Oswalds first coffin, it's for sale

AndrewP

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Wed Dec-01-10 11:05 PM
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If you've dreamed of owning Lee Harvey's Oswalds first coffin, it's for sale

CNN) -- On November 25, 1963, representatives from more than 90 countries attended the Washington funeral for President John F. Kennedy. Millions watched the somber events on television.

On that day, 1,300 miles to the southwest, the man accused of killing him was quietly and simply buried in Fort Worth, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald's remains were interred in a simple pine coffin with the help of volunteer pallbearers.

The deteriorated coffin, which was replaced after Oswald's body was exhumed briefly in 1981, is now up for auction.

A Fort Worth mortuary owner is selling the box, which had a bid of $5,000 on Wednesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/01/oswald.coffin.auction/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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The Velveteen Ocelot

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Wed Dec-01-10 11:07 PM
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1. Just what I've always wanted.

:puke:

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Sinistrous

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Wed Dec-01-10 11:23 PM
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2. I wonder

who the sick bastard who bid on it is.

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The_Casual_Observer

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Wed Dec-01-10 11:25 PM
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3. I can just imagine that god damn pawn shop show guy or the

Hollywood movie prop auction guy about this, " I have to get this, I mean Lee Harvey Oswald...it's unique one of a kind....it's real history...you know, this guy killed Kennedy....somebody will pay me a shitload of money for it!!!!"

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Wed Dec-01-10 11:43 PM
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4. "Look... this thing is great...

and I'd really love to have it in my shop, but it's going to cost me at least half that to have it restored".

"How does $250.00 sound"?

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The_Casual_Observer

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Wed Dec-01-10 11:51 PM
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5. "jr get your fat ass out of that box before you break the god damn thing!!"

Edited on Wed Dec-01-10 11:56 PM by The_Casual_Observer

aaa ok grandpa.

"This one is a lot more valuable than the one Qswald is buried in now, because it's the FIRST one, the 60's one, the Dallas one!!!"

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Thu Dec-02-10 12:09 AM
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6. "Lets go do some paper work".

(Chumlee... not Jr. would be the brainless dolt who laid in the box and broke it). B-)

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