As I have previously discussed, a battle over the true owner of a used casket is waging in Texas. The case began on Monday with Judge Don Cosby in the Tarrant County 67th District Court hearing both Robert Oswald, brother of infamous Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Baumgardner Funeral Home make their cases for why they each have the ownership rights to the casket that was used to bury Lee Harvey. Robert claims that he thought the casket was destroyed after it was found unfit to be used for his brother’s reburial in 1981. Robert found out that the funeral home had the casket and was trying to sell it to an unknown buyer who won the auction bid for the casket at $87,468. As of Wednesday morning the judge had not yet reached a decision on who owns the historic casket.
See Tyler White, Texas Judge to Decide Ownership of JFK Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s Coffin, San Antonio Express-News, Dec. 10, 2014.
Special thanks to Laura Galvan (Attorney, San Antonio, Texas) for bringing this article to my attention.
