Subject: Kennedy Memorabilia Part of Bizarre Auction Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 19:19:10 +0000 From: Debra Conway Organization: @Home Network Newsgroups: startext.jfk Saturday April 4 7:44 PM EST Kennedy Memorabilia Part of Bizarre Auction ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (Reuters) - Memorabilia involving the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was part of an auction here Saturday that also included some famous cars and Spanish torture instruments. The auction was held at the home of Deborah Hough, whose late husband, E.L. Hough, opened the Tragedy in U.S. History Museum in 1965 and ran it until his death two years ago at age 68. Some of the items and the prices they went for were: -- A car that President Kennedy rode in the day of his assassination (a white, 1963 Lincoln sold without an engine), $17,500. -- The ambulance in which presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald died, $7,500. -- A black, bulletproof 1960 Lincoln Continental that Kennedy once owned, $15,000. -- A leather jacket owned by the late movie star James Dean, $550. The debris of various train wrecks, car wrecks and inhuman instruments of torture were offered to about 200 potential bidders. On a business trip to Dallas, Hough's husband arranged to buy the Kennedy limousine, the Oswald ambulance and the car of a co-worker who gave Oswald a ride to the Texas School Book Depository the morning of the assassination. Kennedy was shot from the book depository. Hough also bought the furniture from Oswald's room. Over the years, Hough added the Buick in which actress Jayne Mansfield died in 1966. Along the way, he added 18th-century Spanish implements of torture, replete with human skeletal remains. Both Mansfield's death car and a getaway car said to belong to legendary bandits Bonnie and Clyde were in disrepair after 30 or more years in Hough's back yard. The Mansfield car did not sell and may be headed to a junk yard. The biggest buyer of the day was Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum, located a few blocks away. ^REUTERS@ -- JFK Lancer Productions & Publications "Serving the research community, educating a new generation." http://www.jfklancer.com Updated regularly 1998 November In Dallas Conference, November 19-22 http://www.jfklancer.com/Dallas.html JFK Lancer Scholarship is accepting applications now! http://www.jfklancer.com/Scholarship.html