Posted on 02/23/2023 7:56:01 AM PST by Red Badger
Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A Texas man who bought a second-hand CD from a small-town thrift shop made a surprising discovery inside the case -- a Polaroid photo of President John F. Kennedy on the day of his assassination.
George Rebeles said he was at the Souls Harbor Thrift Store in Ferris when he decided to buy Bachman Turner Overdrive's The Anthology on CD.
Rebeles said he didn't open the CD case until about a month after the purchase, and he discovered an object inside that he soon realized was a Polaroid photo.
The photo depicted Kennedy riding in his motorcade in Dallas. The date handwritten on the back of the photo was "11-22-63," the day of Kennedy's assassination.
"I was shocked. I was shocked," Rebeles told WFAA-TV. "And that's putting it mildly."
Rebeles said he knew it was an unusual find in a thrift store CD case.
"Of course realized immediately that this was an unpublished photograph. So I was excited," Rebeles said. "It just struck me as odd to find it in a CD case."
Farris Rookstool III, a former FBI analyst and JFK historian, said the photo appears to have been snapped as the motorcade left Love Field, a good distance from the location of the assassination.
"I just hope that someone will look at this and say, 'You know what, this is pretty nice to have something from history, to see something that no one has seen in probably 60 years,'" Rookstool said.
Rebeles said he hasn't yet decided whether to keep the photo or try to sell it to a collector.
VIDEO AT LINK...........
The National Archives and Records Administration released nearly 13,000 documents related to the Kennedy assassination in December 2022, acting on an executive order from President Joe Biden. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that 97% of the Kennedy collection is now available to the public.
On the next episode of Pawn Stars...
That’s so cool! Thrift stores have hidden treasures. I found a book by Jimmy Carter that both he and the first lady Rosalyn had signed. It was 50 cents.
The women have helmet head hairstyles and the men wear shortsleeve shirts and ties, in late November.
Dallas has pretty weather .....................
I’ll give ya a quarter for it!................
I was once in Nashville in mid January and walked around with my jacket open. Wouldn’t surprise me Dallas being that bit more pleasant.
I have been a big thrifter for quite some time. I haven’t been in much lately, trying to break the habit, but it’s fun for me to find old vintage things, and reuse or repurpose them. I have a few nice pieces of crystal that I got for 50 cents a stem. My best purchase was a Cutco bread knife for 50 cents that is easily over $100 to buy new. You never know what you’ll find!
The historian said it’s not worth anything.
I’m getting to dislike that show....find your own expert before going there.
That’s probably more than it’s worth.
I recall watching on the Today show in about 1999 or 2000 the story of somebody in Philadelphia buying a cheap end table at a rummage sale. Shortly after buying it, the person stored it for a short bit but one day began going through it’s drawers and it was filled with completely used autograph books (dated in the early to mid 1970s) that were in turned filled with celebrities’ (living and since passed away) signatures.
As it turned out, the end table had once belonged to an older and never married woman who regularly went to tapings of the Mike Douglas show and she got to meet the various actors and actresses and other celebrities of that time (she had autographs from John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, and many others considered very rare by experienced collectors) and actually became friends with a few (Mary Astor was mentioned, IIRC). And they even contacted Mike Douglas himself as he was still around at the time of this story and even he remembered this woman as a regular for his studio audiences.
The part of the story that had me shaking my head in awe was seeing the book labels with “1972 #4” or “1973 #1” and thinking that this lady must have collected all of these signatures during those years and just squirreled them away in this end table and they were still there after she passed.
I hope you bought it on senior day, otherwise it was too much.
I have used a great deal of salvage and thrift store items in remodeling my house. Have a gorgeous 10 x 14' wool carpet in one bedroom. The main bathroom vanity is graced with a very rare and expensive marble top which cost $54 at a salvage yard. The kitchen cabinets are plywood box, dovetailed joints in drawers, solid ash raised fronts and include many expensive add-ons such as trash can pullouts. They were a fraction of original cost and didn't take 6 months to arrive. The ground between my large garden shed and the back of my house was always rutted and muddy. I had my contractor make a sort of patio between the wall and the shed by turning over my old granite countertop pieces and cementing them in place. It's really great--no more mud and the mower rolls out easily. No problem in hauling away the old granite and zero cost to solve a problem. I just scored a marble table top yesterday for a small plant table I got at Goodwill--$15. And last week I got a beautiful lateral file made of real oak, a perfect base on which to place an aquarium (after covering top with salvage plexiglass).
Thrift store and salvage purchases made my remodeling possible. I love finding cool things and repurposing them.
Don’t sell your item there. Go there only to give your item a bit of pizzaz.
Include a copy of the video with your sale. “As seen on Pawn Stars”.
And as a side note, I’m smitten with book expert Rebecca. I still watch Pawn Star clips featuring her. I say get rid of that bald guy, and give her the whole show.
Smitten?? You’re weak...Be strong...foresake her...dream of the sea...or mountains...or meadows....Stay strong...lol
Way too much money {fifty-cents} if you ask me.
That loser is about to depart this world, good riddance.
About the only thing he said that matters, is as long as you have mail in ballots, you will have fraud during an election.
And wouldn’t you know it, it’s clearer than any Sasquatch picture ever published.
That’s awesome! Those are great finds, and I love the repurposing! I think the thing is to find quality items at bargain prices. Sometimes we see beyond what something looks like on the surface. If it’s good stuff underneath, it can be cleaned up and given new life.
I have a beautiful mahogany carved antique bed that I have in my guest room that I found at a flea market, paid $65 for it. It was dusty and full of cobwebs and spider nests. I cleaned that all up, and it’s gorgeous. We had to strengthen the side pieces up, but once we did that, it should last easily for another 100 years. It’s only a full size bed, but perfectly comfortable and so beautiful. Nobody carves wood these days like they used to. So elaborate.
I don't know about that.................
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