JFK assassin’s original coffin put up for auction
LOS ANGELES -- A ghoulish piece of American history is up for sale to the highest bidder.
The modest wooden coffin in which John F. Kennedy's assassin was buried for 18 years is being auctioned off by Allen Baumgardner, owner of Baumgardner Funeral Home in Fort Worth, Texas.
The brown pine box, its rusted metal ornamentation still intact, was dug up in 1981 as part of an effort to put to rest theories that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't in it. Authorities used dental records to conclude the remains did indeed belong to the man who shot the president to death in 1963.
