THE window from where Lee Harvey Oswald shot dead US President John F Kennedy is up for auction from £55,000.
The 40in by 66in wood-framed “sniper’s perch” was taken from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository by its owner.
The window from where Lee Harvey Oswald shot dead US President John F Kennedy is up for auction from £55,000 Credit: Getty
The 40in by 66in wood-framed ‘sniper’s perch’ was taken from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Credit: Heritage Auctions/Cover Images
It was displayed in a museum but is now for sale in Dallas — 63 years after the assassination.
in the city’s downtown on November 22, 1963.
Three spent cartridge cases and a rifle said to be the murder weapon were recovered from the depository.
The Heritage sale takes place on June 25 and the firm’s Ray Farina said of the window: “It is an icon of 20th century .
Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s police mug shot Credit: Alamy
The Texas School Book Depository, from where the fatal shot was fired Credit: Heritage Auctions/Cover Images
“Among all surviving artefacts connected to the assassination none possesses the immediacy, power and historical gravity of the original sixth-floor ‘sniper’s perch’ window — the actual window from which the fatal shots were fired.
“Instantly recognisable to generations, this single object stands at the centre of one of the most shocking and consequential moments in modern history.”
He said depository owner Colonel D Harold Byrd removed the window and it was handed to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
Two days after the shooting, on live TV at Dallas Police HQ.
The killing has been subject to many .
Some believe the CIA and mafia had JFK shot because of his plans to withdraw from the Vietnam War and cut the spy agency’s budget.
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