‘The house is a part of history’: inside the museum dedicated to JFK’s killer
by David Smith in Dallas, Texas from US news | The Guardian on (#6GJN4)
For owner and curator Patricia Puckett-Hall, the home where Lee Harvey Oswald spent six weeks represents a mission - to correct the narrative around the most hated man in the US
Across from a strip mall, on a suburban street stands an ordinary looking house: a clipped lawn, row of bushes, stars and stripes flying on a flagpole, red tiled roof, green floored porch and white, ornately patterned front door. But a yard sign indicates something is different here: Oswald Rooming House Museum."
The house at 1026 North Beckley in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas is where Lee Harvey Oswald slept the night before he allegedly gunned down US president John F Kennedy 60 years ago on Wednesday, leaving a scar on the American conscience.
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