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Hat Worn By Jack Ruby During Oswald Shooting To Be Auctioned In Dallas

Thursday, August 27, 2009
By AVI SELK / The Dallas Morning News
aselk@dallasnews.com

The gray fedora Jack Ruby wore when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald soon will be up for sale in Dallas.

The gray fedora Jack Ruby wore when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald soon will be up for sale in Dallas.
View larger Photography Photo store "It's a pretty stylish hat," said Noah Fleisher, a spokesman for Heritage Auction Galleries. "The guy had good taste."

The auction house will start taking advance bids for the hat in October and put it up for auction in early November.

The hat was auctioned by Guernsey's for $61,000 in 2008.

According to liveauctioneers.com, the hat is a size 7.25 and includes "Jack Ruby" in gold lettering on the inside of the hat. The price, $16.50, also is on the hat.

Also up for auction in November will be a front page of The Dallas Morning News, autographed by President John F. Kennedy on the day he was assassinated by Oswald in 1963, Fleisher said.

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Jack Ruby's Hat Sells For $53,775 At Auction

11/08/2009

Associated Press

A gray fedora worn by Jack Ruby when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald sold for $53,775 at an auction of items linked to assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Ruby's signature fedora invited spirited bidding at the auction Saturday, said Doug Norwine of Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas.

Several collectors vied for the fedora, which had been expected to sell for at least $21,000.

"It's a piece of history," Norwine said. "That weekend of destiny in Dallas changed the social climate in America. For any baby boomer, it made an indelible impression."

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 Forth Worth hotel on the morning of his death. The paper — worth a nickel when it came off the presses in 1963 — sold for $38,837.

A rocking chair from the same era used by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., sold for $8,365.

The auction house said the Lincoln rocker was given to the civil rights leader by his editor, Hermine Isaacs Popper, to use while he worked on his writing at her White Plains, N.Y., cabin.

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I gave the Auction company some historical back-story on that Dallas Morning News newspaper. Looks like it may have helped up the price (but I doubt they will send me any).