FOXNews.com: Outrage Over Vile Auction Of 'Reagan Blood' Vial

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Outrage Over Vile Auction Of 'Reagan Blood' Vial May 22nd 2012, 15:39 The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is fighting to stop a British company from auctioning off a vial it claims contains the dried blood of late President Ronald Reagan.  The item is up for sale on the website of PFC Auctions, and by Tuesday morning the bid was approaching $12,000. The auction is set to run until Thursday.  "If indeed this story is true, it's a craven act and we will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase," foundation director John Heubusch said in a written statement.  The auction site claims the vial was originally obtained by a woman working at a lab in Columbia, Md., in 1981, at the time Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. "Her lab did the bloodwork and testing for President Reagan," the site says.  The woman, who died in 2010, kept the vial -- and her son is now trying to sell it.  The foundation is trying to find out how the vial ever left the lab in the first place. Heubusch said the foundation has "spoken to GW Hospital and are assured an investigation as to how something like this could possibly happen is underway. Any individual, including a president of the United States, should feel confident that once they enter into the care of a medical system their privacy and rights are held inviolable."  The lab was apparently contracted for bloodwork by George Washington University Hospital as well as Walter Reed medical center after the shooting.  The "letter of provenance" from the son posted online detailed his efforts to contact the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library and other authorities about the sale. The seller claimed a Reagan library official initially said he wanted him to donate the vial.  "I told him that I didn't think that was something that I was going to consider," he wrote. "... I was a real fan of Reaganomics and felt that President Reagan himself would rather see me sell it rather than donating it."  He also claimed the library consulted other agencies like the National Archives and FBI and that they determined "everything was OK." And he claimed that when his mother originally took the vial home, the lab director "told her no problem."  The auction site describes the item as a 5-inch glass vial with a green rubber stopper, containing a "quarter-inch ring of blood residue at the end of the inserted rubber stopper."  PFC Auctions told Sky News that they had not heard from The Reagan Foundation.

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