This undated image released by PFCAuctions shows a vial containing Ronald Reagan’s dried blood residue. A Channel Islands online auction house has angered Ronald Reagan’s foundation by claiming to offer a vial that once contained his blood. The auctioneers say it was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan’s blood when he was hospitalized after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington. Bidding for the vial had passed the $11,000 mark Tuesday.LONDON – A Channel Islands auction house says it’s selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan – a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president’s family and his foundation.
The vial being auctioned online was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan’s blood when he was treated at George Washington University hospital after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington, the PFCAuctions house said.
Reagan’s son Michael condemned the auction but said he was confident it was not his father’s blood.
“Whatever’s in the vial – could be mouse blood – it’s certainly not Reagan blood,” Reagan said in a telephone call from Los Angeles. “And what an outrageous thing to do to (Reagan’s widow) Nancy and the family. I hope the world calls on this organization to cease and desist because it’s so bogus.”
“Even if it were true, how dare they, how dare they do such a thing?”