The coffin was auctioned off more than 47 years after President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Four U.S. government investigations concluded that Oswald killed Kennedy, but he denied involvement. Oswald himself was gunned down just two days after the assassination.
Oswald was buried in the silk-lined, wooden coffin in 1963, but his body was exhumed in 1981. At the time, conspiracy theories swirled over who was actually buried in the coffin, and that the body could be that of a Soviet agent instead. The 1981 autopsy revealed that it was indeed Oswald buried inside. Because the original coffin was damaged when it was dug up, Oswald's body was reburied in another casket.
One of the funeral directors who participated in that autopsy, Allen Baumgardner, kept the casket because no one seemed interested in it at the time, The Dallas Morning News reported. He kept it in storage in his Fort Worth funeral home for three decades.
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