The leather piece also includes a letter from the presidential limousine’s maintenance engineer at the time. He writes that four days after the assassination, he received an order from the White House to convert the car so that the new president could use it. He cut off the bloody skin and decided to put it on the market later, perhaps in the hope of making a good profit from it one day.

This is not the first time

This didn’t quite work. This is not the first time presidential bloodstains have been transmitted. It was also auctioned in 2014, where it sold for just over $2,000. In 9 years, the value of a dirty piece of leather has increased more than 20 times.

Sixty years later, the president’s assassination still excites the imagination of many. According to the official story, the president was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot the president from the sixth-floor window of a government building as he drove by in an open car in Dallas and was cheering him on.

Conspiracy theories

But because Oswald himself was killed before he could be convicted, the murder has fueled all kinds of conspiracy theories. For example, people claim to have heard gunshots from a completely different direction than the building where Oswald was found, i.e. from that hill all the way from behind the picket fence.

And yes: part of that fence was also auctioned off. For $13,740.

Souvenir hunters

The auction house is quick to stress that this is an “undeniably” authentic piece of fencing. This is proven by the rusty nails that are still present. Many of the columns have been unearthed and taken by souvenir hunters over the years, meaning they have had to be replaced.

The auction house did not say how the seller himself found this piece of fence. The seller states only that her father, a well-known homicide detective, at one point “collected enough objects related to the murder through his relatives” for her small museum.