Judge orders Oswald's casket returned to brother

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A judge decided that Lee Harvey Oswald's casket belongs to Oswald's brother and that the funeral home that auctioned it acted 'maliciously.' Philip Townsend reports.


Lee Harvey Oswald's casket(Photo: WFAA)


FORT WORTH, Texas -- A judge ruled Friday that the original casket Lee Harvey Oswald was buried in belongs to his brother, not the funeral home that sold it at auction for $87,468 a few years ago.
Judge Don Cosby ordered Baumgardner Funeral Home to pay that same amount in damages to Oswald's brother Robert and return the casket.
Lee Harvey Oswald was buried in the $300 pine box days after he assassinated President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Oswald was exhumed in 1981 to make sure he was actually buried in the casket after conspiracy theories suggested otherwise. After a Dallas hospital confirmed the body through dental records, it was reburied, but not in the original casket, which was too water-damaged.
While Oswald's family thought the casket had been thrown away, it had actually been kept in storage and eventually was auctioned off by Baumgardner Funeral Home in 2010. After Robert Oswald found out, he filed a lawsuit.
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Throughout the trial the funeral home's attorney claimed Robert Oswald had purchased the casket as a gift and never actually owned it.
Oswald's attorney Gant Grimes says the casket will be destroyed, but he isn't sure when.
"From the moment we filed suit, to closing arguments and to today, the sooner we can get that casket destroyed, the sooner (Robert Oswald) will be able to go on with his life," Grimes said after Friday's ruling.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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