Oswald's Gravestone Returns To North Texas, “Where it belongs” - CBS Local
Wrapped only in a cardboard box and placed in the bed of a Ford F150, Lee Harvey Oswald’s original grave marker was driven nearly 1,000 miles to Dallas from Roscoe, Ill. Owner David Card said he and a friend picked the famous artifact up personally, because he did not trust anyone else to “bring it home. ” Card, owner of Poor David’s Pub near downtown Dallas, had been embroiled in a four-year court battle, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, over who rightfully owned the marker. “I’m very relieved and happy to have the stone back here in Texas where it belongs,” said Card, standing over the 140-pound granite marker. 22, 1963 Kennedy assassination in Dallas, the journey of the accused killer’s grave marker is a strange one. Oswald was killed two days after he is alleged to have killed the president, and buried in Fort Worth’s Rose Hill Cemetery. It was eventually returned to Oswald’s mother, Marguerite Oswald, who, believing it would just be stolen again off her son’s grave, instead placed it in the crawl space of her Fort Worth home. After Marguerite Oswald’s death, Card’s father purchased her home – and all of its “contents” — in the early 1980s. The marker, which was discovered by an electrician working under the home, was passed around by Card’s family, eventually landing... Source: dfw.cbslocal.com
