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The Hope Diamond is the world's most famous.

This blue diamond is widely believed to be cursed, with stories of

misfortune and tragedy, befalling those who owned or simply touched it. Here to take a closer

look at the legend and the diamond's history is the Smithsonian's Richard Kern, author of

Hope Diamond, the legendary history of a cursed gem.

Let's take a listen.

It came to the Smithsonian in 1958, a guy who was an ex-police officer in New York City,

worked for Harry Winston's.

He packages up, brown paper bag, put the diamond in it, got on the New York subway to go to the central post

office, addressed it to Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. That was it. $2.66.

Newspapers said, what are you crazy? Art Buckwald wrote a column. Who in Washington

is responsible for this? This is a cursed gem. Once we get this, and it's acquired by the

National Museum of the United States, the U.S. will be cursed. The idea was that the gem was

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