Auction item of the day: Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin

It's the one he was buried in the first time, in 1963 and it's available at Nate D. Sanders auction house. Bidding currently reached $11,918 and it will end on December 16th.

Oswald spent almost 18 years in the coffin before a bizarre set of circumstances led to his exhumation.

Oswald's widow, Marina, got into a bitter argument with his brother Robert. Marina heard rumors that the man buried in the coffin was in fact a Russian Oswald look-alike. She wanted to put it to the test.

Marina managed to get the body exhumed. Dental records proved that the corpse inside was indeed that of Oswald. The suspected assassin was then reburied in a new casket.

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