WASHINGTON: A window said to be the one through which Lee Harvey Oswald shot US president John F Kennedy in 1963 was sold for $3mn on eBay, the Internet auction house said on Friday.
The piece was being auctioned by Caruth Byrd, whose family owned the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, where, from the sixth floor, Oswald fired the shots that killed JFK on November 22, 1963.
The mystery buyer, listed as r.seydel and based in the Netherlands according to his page on eBay’s website, paid $3,001,501 to acquire the window, well past a starting bid for the piece of $100,000.
The window was taken out of the depository weeks after Kennedy’s assassination and held for more than two decades by Caruth Byrd’s father Harold. When Caruth inherited the item after his father’s death, he had it placed in a museum in Dallas commemorating the assassination, where it has been for more than 10 years.
Like all the details surrounding JFK’s death, there are conspiracies that the window is not authentic. But Byrd said on the eBay page auctioning the piece that he will provide the winning bidder “all the official documentation and contracts related to the window and frame’s authenticity.”
“The assassination of John F Kennedy changed history, and this is perhaps the most famous window ever offered up for sale in the world,” it said.
“This authentic, documented piece of American history will only become more valuable with time. Don’t miss this opportunity to own a piece of history.” – Agencies |
