As I have previously discussed, the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald sued Baumgardner Funeral Home after the funeral home attempted to sale Oswald’s original casket through an auction. In a Friday ruling, a Tarrant County judge ruled that the casket must be returned, at the funeral home’s expense, to Oswald’s brother Robert Oswald, who plans to destroy it, and pay him damages of $87,468. The funeral home is considering an appeal, and maintains that the casket purchased by Robert was a gift to his brother, and thus not his property to reclaim.
See Associated Press, Judge: Funeral Home Wrongly Sold Lee Harvey Oswald’s Casket, Fox News, Jan. 31, 2015.
