Instead, Robert Oswald says the coffin that once held his brother, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, should be destroyed. The casket was sold last week for $86,469 at a California action to an anonymous bidder.
Oswald, 76, told the AP he bought the casket in 1963, when his brother was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, as he was being held as a suspect in Kennedy's assasination. He said he tried to stop the auction but never got any response from Nate D. Sanders Auctions of Santa Monica, Calif.
Lee Harvey Oswald's body was exhumed in 1981 to dispel conspiracy theories that someone else was buried in the coffin, and the body was placed in a new coffin. Oswald was killed before he could stand trial for Kennedy's assasination.
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