historical documents that fetched record prices.Īn autographed manuscript of Abraham Lincoln’s last speech, delivered from the window of the White House three days before his assassination in 1865, was sold for $3,086,000-the most ever for a U.S. The Enola Gay co-pilot’s log book recording the horror of having just dropped the first atomic bomb in war was the most chilling item on auction Wednesday in a sale of U.S.
