Mar 02 2008 08:00 AM
Gun that killed JFK assassin in pop culture auction
"This collection is as good as it gets," said Ettinger, with "The Maltese Falcon" resin statuette sitting on his desk alongside the gun used to kill Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and the "Braveheart" sword from the Oscar-winning film.
"Most collections have one or two great things and then things trail off from there," he said. "This collection, there would have to be 100 items here, any one of which would be a star attraction anywhere else."
He said the Colt Cobra revolver used by Jack Ruby to kill Oswald in 1963, just days after Oswald was arrested for assassinating Kennedy, could fetch several million dollars alone. The initials of detectives who handled the gun are scratched on it.