JFK Rocking Chair Heads to Auction

DALLAS -- The bedroom rocking chair of President John F. Kennedy will soon be on the auction block, Heritage Auction Galleries said.

The president's rocker was kept in the White House bedroom and was among several chairs made to accommodate his bad back, said Tom Slater, Heritage's director of Americana auctions. The chair will be put up for sale June 7, officials said.

"This particular chair, with its original Larry Arata upholstery, was given to Kennedy valet George Thomas after the president's untimely death," Slater said.

Slater said the chair remained in Thomas' possession until his death, when it was purchased from his family.

Other items to be auctioned include Kennedy's golf bag and a collection of documents relating to the autopsy of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was found by the Warren Commission to be the sole assassin involved in Kennedy's Nov. 22, 1963, assassination in Dallas.