The ABC reports another expression of murderabilia (ie collectibles from serial killers and other nasties) in the form of an auction of Oswald's coffin -
For the JFK assassination conspiracy junkie who has everything: Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin is due to be auctioned in the US this month. Body not included.Oswald and coffin were disinterred in 1981 after his widow gained an exhumation to test a conspiracy theory that a look-alike Russian agent had been buried in her husband's place. If you are into alfoil beanies you won't be convinced by the news that "the badly decomposed body was indeed Oswald's" ... presumably They switched the body back or tweaked the testing or whatever, before Oswald (or his look-alike) went back underground in a replacement coffin. They are so ingenious, whoever They are.
The report notes that
A Los Angeles auction house said it would sell the simple pine coffin in which the official assassin of president John F Kennedy was buried for almost 20 years.Reuse of the box has startling possibilities - recycled into pencils, embedded into bling for placement on a finger or earring or around the neck, toothpicks, inlay in picture frames, barbecue chips, coasters ...
Bidding will start at $US1,000, but the item is expected to fetch strong interest from museums and collectors of presidential memorabilia when it goes on the block on December 16.
"There's just a lot of interest in Kennedy and anything to do with his assassination", said Laura Yntema, auction manager at California-based Nate D Sanders. ...
The original coffin, which had suffered extensive water damage, is being sold by Baumgardner Funeral Home, the local undertaker which handled the re-internment.
