Oswald’s Toe Tag, Hair Bring $8,800 at Auction
Associated Press
NEW YORK —
Lee Harvey Oswald’s toe tag--and a lock of his hair--fetched $8,800 at an auction.
Minnesota radio personality Dave Ryan phoned in the winning bid for the hair and the tag, which Parkland Hospital in Dallas used to identify the corpse of President John F. Kennedy’s killer in 1963.
The money from the sale Thursday went to the assassin’s brother, Robert Oswald of Texas.
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