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Gun killers Oswald was unable to sell at auction
Colt Cobra Revolver from which the alleged killer was shot thirty-fifth President of the United States, John Kennedy, did not find a buyer at an auction in Las Vegas. The owner of a revolver planned for it generated more than $ 2 million, but during the bidding maximum amount that has been proposed for the exhibit, was 750 thousand dollars. At the end of the auction Puglieze offered to leave rarity for a million dollars, but he did not accept the offer and reported Review Journal.
The British Guardian said that the revolver was purchased Dzhekom Ruby, Oswald murderer, in 1960 for 62 dollars 50 cents. Ruby shot Oswald in front of dozens of photo-lens cameras and November 24, 1963, when the sole defendant in the assassination of President under escort led to avtozaku to carry the building dallasskoy police in the district prison. Later Ruby explained that in a way he had planned to avenge the Kennedy widows and rid it of the need to address the court as a witness. Ruby died in a prison hospital in January 1967. A month before his death he had found cancer, but one of the versions, the killer Oswald was poisoned.
Collector Anthony Puglieze acquired Colt Cobra Dzheka Ruby in 1991 for 220 thousand dollars. Revolver was exhibited at the auction exhibits pop culture, along with hundreds of other rarities, Puglieze collected in the past 25 years. For example, an American managed to get his collection icon Edgar Hoover FBI, costume Superman Christopher Reeve brush and Andy Warhol.
At the end of the auction collector did not upset by the fact that the revolver was unable to sell, and added that he did not hold against host exhibits. |
Posted: 5:38 AM, 3/17/2008 |
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