Lee Harvey Oswald

When Dallas Razed Lee Harvey Oswald's Flat, It also Destroyed Jane Bryant's Cell Phone

Last month, Jane Bryant finally lost her years-long fight with the city when demolition crews rolled in early one morning and made quick work of 604 Elsbeth S., better known as Lee Harvey Oswald's old apartment. For a brief moment, the building, with its tangential connection to history, drew the w ... More >>

The Life and Death of Dallas Theater Center's Jack Ruby, All-American Boy

In 1974, DTC premiered its best show ever. Why was it never seen again?

JFK Assassination Docs Won't Be Released By 50th Anniversary After All

One thing the city of Dallas won't have to deal with in its attempt to keep the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination classy is a lot of new information that complicates our picture of November 22, 1963. Salon reported yesterday that the National Archives is refusing to release 1,171 classified C ... More >>

600 Elsbeth, Site of Rotting Apartment Complex In Which Lee Oswald Once Lived, Is For Sale

​Speaking of the assassination of John F. Kennedy ...For a long while now we've written about the ongoing fight between the city of Dallas and Jane Bryant, owner of the decaying apartment complex on 600 Elsbeth near Bishop Arts where, in 1962, Lee Harvey Oswald and wife Marina briefly lived. Just ... More >>

Poor David: Club Owner Sure Would Like to Get Lee Harvey Oswald's Tombstone Returned

Historic Auto Attractions​Spent the better part of the morning virtually touring Historic Auto Attractions in Roscoe, Illinois, where, per Roadside America's rave, "the fireplace mantle on which President Truman signed the order to bomb Hiroshima is only a few feet from a pickup truck used on Sanf ... More >>

After 48 Years, DPD Honors Clerk Who Alerted Them to Lee Harvey Oswald's Whereabouts

Photo by Leslie MinoraJohnny Calvin Brewer, left, led officers to Lee Harvey Oswald after Kennedy's assassination. Pictured with historian Farris Rookstool III, center, and former DPD officer Ray Hawkins, who cuffed Oswald at the Texas Theatre.​After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on ... More >>

Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, Digitally Restored For National Geographic Channel Doc

Speaking of a Dealey Plaza's redo ... I've had a copy of National Geographic Channel's JFK: The Lost Bullet sitting on the desk for a week; haven't watched it yet, but there's time -- it doesn't air till Sunday at 8 p.m. And while it's said to show Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone on November 22, 1963 ... More >>

King Tackles a Prez's Redrum

Parkland Was Certainly Quite Proud of Itself Following the Shootings of Kennedy, Oswald

Via The Sounds of History​Had dinner at the folks' house last night, after which the boy and I went digging through a stack of old Dallas Newses and Times Heralds my dad keeps stashed in a closet, almost completely forgotten. They were my grandfather's and date back to November 22, 1963, and fast- ... More >>

City Hall's Kennedy Conspiracy

Kennedy assassination author and conspiracist Robert Groden says the city's out to get him. He may be right.

In Tarrant County, Oswald's Brother Sues Auctioneer, Funeral Home Over Lee's Coffin

Inside the coffin of Lee Harvey Oswald​Remember when that L.A. auction house auctioned off the pine box in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery in Fort Worth? Man, seems like only six weeks ago. Since then, of course, the c ... More >>

Friday-Morning Follow-Ups

This old photo of the Texas Theatre was among a stack of unsold pictures being auctioned off yesterday.​To begin the day, some housekeeping ...A happy ending to yesterday's story about the kidnapping of Eileen Loskot: She was found dehydrated but otherwise unharmed in New Mexico, and one of the th ... More >>

From a Cemetery in Fort Worth to an Auction House in L.A.: Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin

​Via Gawker, this ghoulish gift suggestion (?): Lee Harvey Oswald's Original Pine Coffin, currently up for grabs courtesy the Los Angeles auction house Nate D. Sanders, Inc. This is the pine box in which Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery ... More >>

On the 47th Anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination, Honoring the Man Who Helped Dallas PD Nab Lee Harvey Oswald

DPD recognized 82-year-old Temple Bowley's efforts, 47 years ago, to summon help for slain officer J.D. Tippit, and help narrow the search for Lee Harvey Oswald.​Forty-seven years ago today, Temple Bowley was headed for a weekend getaway with his family when he found Dallas Police officer J.D. Tip ... More >>

Well, It Is Cycling Weather: An Early Look at Plans For This Year's Cyclesomatic

​For those who like to plan ahead (or for those of us who need a few weeks to, oh, I dunno, stop smoking and pump up their tires and generally reconsider several other unhealthy life choices), this heads-up: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff this morning released the details for Cyclesomatic 2010, a four-da ... More >>

It's Just a Screen Away!

Maybe You Used to Visit the Pate Museum Like I Did. On Saturday, You Can Buy the Exhibits.

Perhaps there's some proud Woodrow Wildcat out there in need of a '67 Shelby GT Fastback.​On Christmas Eve we bid farewell to the Pate Museum of Transportation just outside of Fort Worth, the first museum I can recall my classic-car-rebuilding, auto-parts-selling father taking me to when I was a b ... More >>

Schutze Says We Should All Do a Badu and Get Naked at Dealey Plaza--and That Includes Him

Crushing Grain and Slasher Blend Violence And Dark Comedy With Mixed Results

JFK = Still Dead. Will a President Ever Come to Dallas Again?

Too soon?​Sunday was the 46th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. A couple questions ...

The Lone Grain Man

Crime Screen

Forty-Five Years Later, Discovery Channel Shoots JFK in Dallas Yet Again

Gird your loins: The conspiracy theorists -- by which I mean the truth-tellers, of course -- are coming to town. Beginning a week from tomorrow, the Adolphus Hotel will host JFK Lancer's November in Dallas 2008 confab, scheduled to run for three days to coincide with the 45th anniversary of John ... More >>

Lee Harvey Oswald's Trial Finally Available on DVD. Hmmm, Wonder Why.

Holy Mackerel! Reporter Who Broadcast Oswald's Murder Dead at 75

Lost in Dealey Plaza, "The Bermuda Triangle of Pop Culture!"

At Least One Major U.K. Paper Wants to Believe Ruby Talked to Oswald

Wookiee Mistake

Ever Suck on a Dallas?

Helter Skelter, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na

Take Aim...

Beating a Dead...Horse. Yeah, We're Sticking With Horse.

Killing Me Softly With JFK Conspiracies

Canvas the Theater

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Drawn Together

Get Out

Kids show off their extracurricular activities

Defining Moment

Forty years later, "local yokels" take pride in covering tragedy

Casts of Killers

Assassins at Quad C, convicts at SMU, plus murder in Tuna, Texas

A Hit Show

This discussion is killer

JFK Journey

Oswald, from shot to grave

Letters

Man for Marrs... And woman; Smooth-running machine ;They're not so petty; At least he laughed; Stirring the crock

The truth is way out there

Jim Marrs believes that Kennedy was murdered as part of a vast conspiracy, that aliens vist us regularly, and that the Trialateral Commission controls our governement. So, what if he's right?

Officer down

Thirty-five years ago, Jesse Curry was Dallas' respected, popular police chief. Then Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, and Curry became just one more victim of the Kennedy assassination.

Stained glass

Conspiracy Theory

JFK assassination buffs who peddle their wares on the grassy knoll think there's a plot to put them out of business. They may be right.

Buzz

From Lee Harvey Oswald to Ashley Estell, Dallas pathologist Linda Norton serves as Doctor to the Dead

Oswald's ghost

Norman Mailer resurrects a tragically human assassin

Buzz