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Jack Ruby’s Hat Fetches Nearly $54,000
A fedora that Jack Ruby was wearing when he shot presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 sold for more than $54,000 at auction, which is a few bucks more than what Ruby paid for the headwear.
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DALLAS (November 9, 2009)--The gray fedora worn Jack Ruby was wearing when he shot presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald has sold for $53,775 at an auction of items linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
That’s about $53,759 more than the $16 Ruby paid for the hat.
Doug Norwine of Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas says Ruby's signature fedora invited spirited bidding.
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 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 his death.
The paper, which originally sold for a nickel when it came off the presses in 1963, fetched $38,837.
The auction house said a rocking chair given to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by his editor, Hermine Isaacs Popper, sold for $8,365.
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