Auction House Being Sued for Selling Lee Harvey Oswald’s Coffin

I previously blogged that the Nate D. Sanders auction house in LA was selling Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin and other embalming items. Oswald’s brother, Robert Edward Lee Oswald, told the auction house that it was not theirs to sell and he wanted the items so that the family could destroy them. He also proved his ownership of the coffin by showing the auction house the original funeral order. The auction house sold the items anyways, bringing in $160,000, and now Oswald is suing the funeral parlor and auction house.

See Chris Vogel, Lee Harvey Oswald’s Family is Suing LA Auction House Nate D. Sanders for Selling Assassin’s Coffin, LA Weekly Blogs, Jan. 17, 2011.