Oswald\’s Brother Gets the Assassin\’s Coffin

FORT WORTH (CN) – A Texas funeral home must return the original casket of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to his brother and pay the $87,000 that it brought at auction, a state judge ruled.
Robert Edward Lee Oswald, 80, of Wichita Fallas, sued Baumgardner Funeral Home, Allen Baumgardner Sr. and auction house Nate D. Sanders in Tarrant County Court in 2011.
Oswald said that the day after his brother was killed by Jack Ruby on live national television in Dallas, he bought a pine casket from Miller\’s Funeral Home in Tarrant County and paid for preparation of the body and a funeral . The funeral home was later purchased by Baumgardner.
The body was exhumed in 1981 after a conspiracy theorist launched \”a legal and publicity campaign\” claiming that a Russian agent, not Oswald\’s brother, was in the casket.