Twenty-four year old ex-Marine Lee Harvey Oswald after his arrest on November 22, 1963. He received a cut on his forehead and a blackened swollen left eye in a scuffle with officers who arrested him. Oswald, an avowed Marxist, has been charged with the murder of President John F. Kennedy, who was killed by a sniper's bullet as he rode in a motorcade through Dallas. (UPI Photo/Files) | License Photo
Online bidding started at $1,000 Thursday and ended around 10 p.m.
The wooden coffin was used for Oswald's burial after he shot President John F. Kennedy in 1963 but was exhumed in 1981.
It was sold by Allen Baumgardner, who kept it for three decades in his Fort Worth, Texas, funeral home.
Baumgardner participated in the exhumation, which was pushed by a British conspiracy theorist who said he believed the body actually was a Soviet agent's.
Medical examiners said the 1981 autopsy confirmed the man in the casket was Oswald. The remains were placed in a new casket and reburied in the Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth.
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