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[Clipping: Lee Harvey Oswald's wedding band, long lost in a file, to be sold]

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Newspaper clipping describing the wedding band belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald that his former wife, Marina Oswald Porter, is auctioning it off with RR Auction. Ms. Porter states that the ring is the only thing returned to her from her late husband and it took fifty years, but she has moved on from the events of November 22, 1963 and wants to let the ring go.

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1 clipping : col. ill. ; 56 cm.

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Ragland, James July 18, 2013.

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Newspaper clipping describing the wedding band belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald that his former wife, Marina Oswald Porter, is auctioning it off with RR Auction. Ms. Porter states that the ring is the only thing returned to her from her late husband and it took fifty years, but she has moved on from the events of November 22, 1963 and wants to let the ring go.

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1 clipping : col. ill. ; 56 cm.

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This paper was saved and used by Charles E. Reagan, Jr., during his research on President John F. Kennedy

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  • "Ring of History," The Dallas Morning News, Dallas Texas, July 18, 2013

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  • Preferred Citation: Charles Reagan Papers (AR0908), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Charles Reagan Papers

Annotated newspaper clippings collected by Charles E. Reagan, Jr., in the course of his research for a book about John F. Kennedy and the era surrounding his presidency.

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  • July 18, 2013

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  • Dec. 2, 2019, 4:59 p.m.

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Ragland, James. [Clipping: Lee Harvey Oswald's wedding band, long lost in a file, to be sold], clipping, July 18, 2013; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1596954/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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