John F. Kennedy’s (JFK’s) blood-stained leather patches from his limousine fetched $46,865 at auction block through RR Auction.
As TMZ reported, 2 large patches that were cut straight from inside the car where President Kennedy was shot and which were covered in his bodily fluids ended up going for a ton of dough. The final amount is $46,865.
Other keepsakes that went for a high dollar amount included Lee Harvey Oswald’s personally-owned revolver ($31k) and also a bullet Jack Ruby fired at LHO ($18k).
Meanwhile, a section of the picket fence lining the infamous grassy knoll during the JFK assassination fetched $13,740.
Also, Oswald’s jail phone call receipt from the Dallas jail when he was trying to call an attorney in New York but was never able to reach him.
In 2019, a Connecticut history collector and a Dallas auction house withdrew blood-stained leather pieces from auction.
Heritage Auctions’ website said at the time:
“This lot has been withdrawn from this auction. Bids are no longer accepted, and previous bids are cancelled.”
Nbcdfw reported:
The collector, John Reznikoff, said he bought a small swatch of the leather at an auction years ago.
“This piece actually has John F. Kennedy’s DNA on it,” he said.
He divided it into about a dozen smaller pieces of less than one inch by one inch.
Most of the pieces were sold to “prominent collections” but he is now auctioning one more.
Another piece that he sold to an unnamed buyer earlier has been put up for bid by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions.
Reznikoff is founder and president of University Archives in Westport, Connecticut.
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