Video still of Lee Harvey Oswald's tombstone on display at Historic Auto Attractions museum in Roscoe, Ill. (© Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune)

Family feud rages over who owns assassin's tombstone

3/28/2012

Wayne Lensing, the owner of an auto and oddities museum, bought Lee Harvey Oswald's tombstone online, but the family is objecting that the shirttail relative who sold him 130-pound granite slab didn't own it. The headstone had been in David Card's family since an electrician found it hidden in his father's home -- once owned by Oswald's mother. The story of how it got from a Texas garage to an Illinois museum is as tangled as Card's step-family tree but, the point is, he's suing Lensing to get it back. Before hanging up on a Chicago Tribune reporter, Card's step-cousin -- the tombstone seller -- said Card has no proof of anything. Well, other than the fact that he's probably screwed.

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