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Quick: What will Ronald Reagans blood be auctioned for?
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Settled on 05/24/2012 15:45 Settled by
kruijsA vial purportedly containing dried blood from former President Ronald Reagan after a 1981 assassination attempt will not be auctioned online, but donated to Reagan's presidential foundation, officials said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/24/us/reagan-blood-auction/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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Ronald Reagan's foundation expressed outrage on Monday at a British company's auction of what it says is a vial of the late U.S. president's blood taken at the hospital where he was treated after a 1981 assassination attempt. "If indeed this story is true, it's a craven act and we will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase," John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, said in a statement.
PFC Auctions, a company based in Guernsey in the United Kingdom, announced on Sunday that it would sell the vial of blood in an online auction set to end on Thursday. The website for PFC Auctions said the latest online bid for the vial stood at 6,270 British pounds ($9,910).
The vial was taken at George Washington University Hospital on March 30, 1981, after Reagan was wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C., PFC Auctions said on its website. It is said to have come from a person whose late mother had worked at a medical lab.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-usa-reagan-blood-idUSBRE84L01C20120522
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