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DALLAS — The gray fedora worn by Jack Ruby when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald sold for $53,775 at an auction of items linked to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Ruby’s signature fedora invited spirited bidding Saturday, said Doug Norwine of Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. Several collectors vied for the fedora, which had been expected to fetch at least $21,000."It’s a piece of history," Norwine said. "That weekend of destiny in Dallas changed the social climate in America."The shackles that Ruby wore when he lay dying at Parkland Memorial Hospital sold for $11,054, and an X-ray of Ruby’s head garnered $776. Another hot commodity at the auction was the front page of The Dallas Morning News that Kennedy had signed for a maid at a Fort Worth hotel on the morning of the day he died. The paper — worth a nickel when it came off the presses in 1963 — sold for $38,837.A Lincoln rocking chair from the same era used by civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sold for $8,365. The auction house said the chair was given to King by his editor, Hermine Isaacs Popper, to use while he worked on his writing at her White Plains, N.Y., cabin.— The Associated Press
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