The Late President Reagan has surviving family and they should decide how best to handle this article.

It has remote historical significance. It was an attempted assassination, but, those closest to him should not have the nightmare of realizing their father's remains are in circulation as a collectors item. 


This is terrible. There is nothing dignified about this, primarily because of the exploitative nature of it all. It was stolen. I just don't believe that is appropriate. There should not be rewards for lack of respect for the family or theft. 


The only thing that remotely matches this is 'relicted' holy objects attached to rosary beads, but, this is beyond what should be acceptable. If this belonged to Lincoln or Kennedy, there is the idea of a genome being extracted for whatever reason that might exist. I sincerely this needs to be treated as human remains and given some respect.


My sympathies to the family. 

May 22, 2012, 6:25 AM

A British auction house claiming (click here) to have a vial containing President Ronald Reagan’s dried blood has angered the late Republican’s nonprofit foundation, which is threatening to block its sale.

“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 & Library in Simi Valley, Calif., said in a statement, according to reports.

PFC Auctions listed a high bid of more than $9,900 late Monday, with final offers being accepted online through Thursday. The website says the “dried blood residue from President Reagan (1911-2004) can be seen clearly in the vial with a quarter-inch ring of blood residue at the end of the inserted rubber stopper.”

The president’s blood was supposedly gathered in 1981, following the assassination attempt on his life outside of a Washington, D.C., hotel. He was sent to George Washington University Hospital, where doctors tended to a gunshot wound and punctured lung.

The auction website notes that the paperwork included with the vial incorrectly states Reagan’s birthdate as “2/02/11,” when it was actually Feb. 6, 1911.

The vial is dated “3/30/81” — the day of the assassination attempt....