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    from telegraph

    Lee Harvey Oswald coffin up for sale
    The coffin of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated President John F Kennedy, is up for auction.

    A Los Angeles auction house said on Tuesday it would sell the simple pine coffin in which Oswald was buried for almost 20 years.

    Bidding will start at $1,000 (£640), but the item is expected to fetch strong interest from museums and collectors of presidential memorabilia when it goes under the hammer on Dec. 16.

    "There's just a lot of interest in Kennedy and anything to do with his assassination," said Laura Yntema, auction manager at Santa Monica, California-based Nate D. Sanders.

    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, according to the auction house.

    A medical exam showed the badly decomposed body was indeed Oswald's, and he was returned to Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas, in a new casket.

    The original coffin, which had suffered extensive water damage, is being sold by Baumgardner Funeral Home, the local undertaker which handled the re-internment.

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    Remind me NEVER to be buried by that outfit.

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    Default Re: who pays big bucks for a used celebrity coffin?

    wouldn't a used coffin be a health hazard?

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    Default Re: who pays big bucks for a used celebrity coffin?

    That's just fucked up. And stupid.

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