President John F. Kennedy’s blood-stained underwear selling on Ebay for $1 million, complete with ‘possible traces of DNA’

A PAIR of President John F. Kennedy’s bloodstained long johns have mysteriously appeared on eBay for a staggering $1 million.

The long johns appeared to have a blood stain near the ankle with possible traces of DNA from the 35th president of the United States.

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Kennedy served as president from 1961 until he was assassinated in a brutal public display on November 22, 1963.

Although he died almost 62 years ago, his clothes are still resurfacing and are up for auction.

The long johns had a hole in them, suggesting that Kennedy wore them frequently.

A small square was cut from the first fabric, which was used in the construction of a famous limited edition collectible doll, John-John.

It was only when a photographer was hired to take photos of the clothes that the bloodstains were discovered.

The long johns are one of two pairs that were sold to dealer and memorabilia collector Richard Wilson at Guernsey’s 1998 Kennedy auction.

They were then listed in a catalog in 2002 and later purchased in private sale.

A copy of your original Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is included in the sale.

Wilson was even shown holding a pair of underwear in a 1998 New York Post article about the upcoming Kennedy auction.

The item of underwear was described as “a pair of personal wool underwear.”

A few years later, Heritage Auctions sold the pair.

One had the Duofold label and the second had John F. Kennedy’s identification sewn into the collar.

“When we purchased them over two decades ago, we had taken some photos of the underwear and then stored them in a secure safe for almost twenty years,” said the seller.

“No one told us about the stains, nor did we notice them. Not until now.

“To better understand what we had discovered, we investigated forensics trying to discover the possible circumstances that would produce this injury,” they continued.

“The location of the injury was in the lower region of the shin, just above the ankle.”

The seller speculated that this was where Kennedy began to bleed, believing the blood “spread to the top of his ankle.”

They said the blood was also “diluted and covered a wider area”, claiming that “it can be assumed that blood ran down the leg from the site of injury”.

The seller revealed that there was a second stain that was much larger than the first, believing that the previous owners had attempted to clean the area with a cleaning agent.

They suggested that “the president was probably standing in either an upright or semi-upright position while bleeding.”

“It is felt that the President, perhaps passionately, was unaware of the primary injury, which he might have been concerned about, and only later discovered the secondary blood, which he attempted to remove.”

LONG STORY

The former president’s long johns have been well documented over the years, long before they were initially auctioned off in 1998.

Newspaper articles about garments date back to June 12, 1979, in The National Enquirer.

The pair sold was previously purchased for use by The Great American Doll Company and has since “accumulated a lot of additional provenance because of what we did with them,” according to the seller.

Before they were sold to The Great American Doll Company, Kennedy’s wife, Jackie Kennedy, gathered some of his most expensive items to be sold at their wedding in 1953.

She allegedly wrapped the items in Kennedy’s long johns while transporting them to an antique shop in Washington, D.C.

Since the long johns have been through an ordeal of events, the seller hopes to sell the relic to “a good home.”

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