A handcuffed Lee Harvey Oswald is shot by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas Police Department, Sunday, November 24, 1963, 2 days after the Kennedy assassination.
I was sitting at the hair salon today, getting highlights and a cut, talking with my stylist about assassins and where they were buried. I know where Abraham Lincoln‘s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is buried – Baltimore, but, I wondered aloud, “Where is John F. Kennedy‘s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald buried?”
My first thought was Dallas, but that is where Oswald was murdered, not where he’s buried. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald died at Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same Dallas hospital where President John F. Kennedy died just two days earlier on November 22, 1963, after being fatally wounded by Oswald as his presidential motorcade made its way through downtown Dallas.
After Kennedy was gunned down, Oswald was arrested and interrogated for two days. Then, on the morning of Sunday, November 24, as he was being transferred to the Dallas County Jail, Oswald was shot and wounded by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas Police Department. He was rushed to the hospital but died shortly afterward. Oswald’s body was given to his family and was buried in a Fort Worth, Texas cemetery. Oswald’s original tombstone, which included his full name and dates of birth and death, was stolen. Today his obscure grave in the Fort Worth cemetery is marked by a stone that lies on the ground which reads simply: Oswald.
For those interested in tracking down Oswald’s grave, which is apparently hard to locate within the Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park, click here for directions.
stumbled upon your blog somehow. great little history reads. i look forward to future posts!
D, thanks for the compliments and keep coming back. I appreciate you.
I just discovered your blog while searching for some material on Queen Elizabeth. Since I’m an absolute nut about history as tale telling and gossip, I will definitely be back for more. This article was impressive enough that I put a link and short blurb up on my blog.
Photos of Oswald’s corpse are also available on the internet, both morgue photos and photos taken during the exhumation done in the 70′s. For example, see:
http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f10/20581d1218597502-exhumed-head-lee-harvey-oswald-oswaldhead.jpg
Gary, thanks for the info. I’ll look into it. I appreciate your comments.
Cool blog.
Thats it Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park
I’m following Lee Harvey’s life, day by day, 50 years ago “today” in case you are interested http://lhoandme.wordpress.com/
Fascinating stuff. Your blog is definitely one-of-a-kind. With the news about the CIA suppression of info regarding Oswald and Cuba, I imagine your site will witness a lot of traffic.
Absolutely wonderful blog. Thanks so much.
Marina Oswald lived a few streets away from us when I first moved to Northwest Austin. I don’t know where she lives now. Thanks for the compliments. Keep coming back!
BTW, I have pics of LHO’s gravesite. My 2 oldest daughters and I went on a scavenger hunt a few weeks ago to find it.
Morbid fascination, I’m aware.
http://www.twitpic.com/photos/FWSoccerDad.
I think cemeteries are fascinating.
is that lee harvy oslwald up there??!!! getting SHOT!!!!
well, he did shoot JFK.
I worked at Shannon Rose Hill cemetary and some nights people would come through and place flowers from throughout the cemetary on Oswalds grave other times we would find feces on his head stone.
Mark, what a tale. Thanks for sharing.
LHO should be considered only a suspect in wounding JFK.
“wounding” JFK?
Please…ok killing JFK…LHO was just as he claimed he was a “patsy”. He did kill Officer Tippet but should be considered only a suspect in JFK killing.
Peggy, there are others who feel as you do and scores of books written on the subject. In this life, we’ll never really know what happened that day in Dallas.