NEWS ABOUT: Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald stories: 5 news briefs
Gun that killed JFK assassin, Superman suit among items slated for Vegas auction
Reuters Mar 2, 08 4:45 AM CST
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Indiana Jones' whip. The gun that killed JFK's assassin. Madonna's Like a Virgin wedding dress. All are up for grabs at a massive memorabilia auction scheduled for March 15-16 in Las Vegas, Reuters reports. Billed as the best pop-culture collection ever assembled, the 850-lot treasure trove could fetch more than $5 million, says the president of the auction house.
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Long-lost files, Ruby's and Oswald's personal effects appear in public
Dallas Morning News Feb 18, 08 3:35 PM CST
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Numerous items related to the JFK assassination were revealed to the public today after having spent years forgotten in a Dallas courthouse safe, the Dallas Morning News reports. Brass knuckles and a holster belonging to Jack Ruby were in the safe, as was a lucrative contract signed by Ruby prosecutor Henry Wade for a film that was never made.
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Materials include transcript that could fuel conspiracy theories
Dallas Morning News Feb 17, 08 5:35 PM CST
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Dallas County officials have uncovered a batch of JFK assassination materials, including a transcript between Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald that one expert laughed off as a likely fake. Other items include correspondence, records of the Ruby trial, and a gun holster, the Dallas Morning News reports .
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Says Cuban killers, armed radical planned hits in Chicago
ABC News Nov 22, 07 6:53 PM CST
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Feds dug up a plot to ice JFK in Chicago three weeks before he was killed in Dallas, ABC news reports. JFK's trip to the Windy City was nixed, but agents never passed on data about a Cuban hit squad and an armed radical to federal agents in Dallas. Yet agent Abraham Bolden, who has written a book about the plot, did know: "When that bullet struck the head of the president, it struck me too because I saw it coming."
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Bullet analysis used to rule out second
gunman is now discredited
Washington Post May 17, 07 8:48 AM CDT
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Evidence proving that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone has been discredited by a research team using techniques unavailable to previous investigators. Bullet analysis used to rule out a second JFK assassin is called "fundamentally flawed" by the new team, led by the former chief metallurgy expert for the FBI, the Washington Post reports.
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