A gun owned by Lee Harvey Oswald is set to fetch £20,000 ($25,000) at a John F Kennedy auction.
The lots are going under the hammer ahead of the 60th anniversary for the fatal shooting of the 35th US President on 22 November.
The handgun was personally owned by Oswald who was arrested over JFK’s death in 1963.
The “Iver Johnson First Model Safety Automatic Hammerless Top Break revolver” calibre is an antique model.
Lee is punched-dot engraved on the left side of the gun’s frame.
It was the first gun owned by Oswald – himself killed two days later – and it is in “good condition.”
He then sold it on to his brother for just £8 ($10).
A chilling letter of provenance signed by Lee’s brother, Robert L. Oswald, telling the story of the gun is included.
Part of the letter reads: “I told Lee that he had no business having a gun.
“I don’t know where it came from, how he got it, or where he got it.
Two images of the check that Robert wrote to his brother as payment for the gun, with the back of the check clearly showing Lee Harvey Oswald’s signature is included.
The weapon is being auctioned off at RR Auctions, in Boston Massachusetts.
Other notable items up for auction include a swatch of leather from the limo JFK was in when he was assassinated.
The dark and light blue leather patches are from the seat.
Kennedy was sat in the 1961 Lincoln Continental X-100 presidential limousine when he was assassinated.
The swatches are taped together to an overall size of 7″ x 3″.
They’re expected to rake in a staggering £4,800 ($6,000).
John F. Kennedy’s Diary from 1945 has also gone under the hammer.
This is set to sell for £402,000 ($500,000.)
The diary opens with a handwritten page containing Kennedy’s reflections on World War II.
It also includes comments about Hitler.
The president refers to Hitler as “one of the most significant figures who ever lived.”
Another bizarre item up for auction is a section of a picket fence.
This is set to sell for up to £8,500) $10,000.
The section of picket fence is from the grassy knoll.
The infamous ‘grassy knoll’ at Dealey Plaza in Dallas overlooked the route of Kennedy’s motorcade.
The fence is central to many conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination.
The listing reads: “An analysis of acoustical evidence and witness reports cited in the final report of the the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1979 concluded that there was at least a 95% probability that a ‘gunshot was fired from a point along the east-west line of the wooden stockade fence on the grassy knoll, about eight feet (+-five feet) west of the corner of the fence.’
”Though the HSCA’s scientific evidence has since been discredited, the ‘grassy knoll’ theory lives on as an intriguing aspect of the JFK assassination conspiracy.”
The auction ends on Wednesday (8 Nov).
