- Coffin of JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, at the centre of a legal battle
- He was shot by a night club owner two days after killing President Kennedy
- Killer was buried in 1963, but his body was exhumed in 1981 and examined
- Funeral home sold the coffin for £55,700 to an anonymous bidder in 2010
- But his brother claims he is the rightful owner and is suing funeral home
The
brother of President John F Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is
suing the funeral home which sold the killer's coffin for £55,000.
Robert
Oswald, 80, has accused Baumgardner Funeral Home in Fort Worth, Texas,
of acting in bad taste for selling the coffin after his body was exhumed
as part of a CIA conspiracy probe.
Two
days after President Kennedy was gunned down as he rode in an
open-topped motorcade, Oswald was shot dead by night club owner Jack
Ruby as he walked through Dallas police station.
Oswald
was buried at the Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Burial Park in Texas in
1963, but his body was exhumed 18 years later and examined after
mounting speculation about CIA involvement.
The coffin of President John F Kennedy's accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is at the centre of a macabre ownership battle
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