Number Plates On JFK Dallas Limo Sell For $100k

The GG 300 license plates that were affixed to the limo President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 52 years ago has been auctioned off for a cool $100,000.

The license plates from Kennedy’s limousine were tossed in the trash at a Cincinnati, Ohio, company that retrofitted the vehicle after the assassination.

According to Ackerman, “These plates were about to expire, so the Federal Bureau of Investigation agent (overseeing the work) took the plates, installed them on the new auto, and threw out the old plates, and Mr. Hess got them out of the garbage”.

But company owner Willard Hess retrieved them and stored them between two books on a shelf.

“I was aware of their significance”, said Jane Walker, who inherited the plates and kept them in a kitchen drawer.

The plates sold for well over the initial bid of 40,000 USA dollars (£26,500), said Noah Fleisher, from Heritage Auctions.

“These are the plates that were on Kennedy’s limousine”, Don Ackerman, Heritage consignment director, said.

The menu was from the last first-class dinner served on the fated Titanic before it hit the iceberg and sank.

The menu featured a selection of oysters, filet mignon, roast duckling, squab and other delicacies, topped off with desserts such as Waldorf pudding or peaches in chartreuse jelly. “My sons always wanted me to put them in a safe deposit box”, Walker said.

Though the license plates only recently surfaced, the auto has become an artifact at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. However, officials with White Star Line claimed in a Congressional inquiry that the company never received notice of distress from the Titanic.

The auction house had listed the valuable menu as the last one in existence from that day’s dinner.

It is among a few surviving artifacts from the ill-fated ship’s journey.

Also, according to the auction house, five businessmen had written their addresses on the menu while sharing a dinner table the night before it sank.