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Online Casino Buys Portion of JFK Fence

June 24, 2005

DALLAS -- An online casino has purchased a section of fencing from the scene of President John F. Kennedy's assassination for nearly $33,000.

The purchase by GoldenPalace.com adds to the casino's collection of artifacts, which includes a grilled cheese sandwich bearing the image of the Virgin Mary and an invitation to the canceled wedding of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks.

The auction, offered by Lelands.com, closed Friday. Lelands said that the fence has been repaired a number of times over the years and few of the pickets are believed to be original.

The metal posts were the only portion that may have been on the grassy knoll the day Kennedy was shot in November 1963, said Gary Mack, curator at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, which is dedicated to Kennedy's life.

When a construction crew began dismantling the fence to replace it in January 2000, a tour guide grabbed four sections and put them into storage.

When the storage payments weren't made, the fence was sold at public auction to a man from Texas. The man approached Lelands last year about reselling it, said Simeon Lipman, director of Americana at the New York-based auction house.

Source: L.A. Times