I suspect we will be seeing many stories like this in the lead-up to the 50th anniversary of the assassination:
"Owner of burial plot next to Oswald’s grave speaks out" Associated Press, August 11, 2013
NEW YORK — For years, curiosity seekers visiting the Fort Worth grave of Lee Harvey Oswald have wondered about the simple headstone next door, marked Nick Beef.
It turns out Nick Beef is alive and living in New York.
The New York Times reported that the 56-year-old man who uses that name purchased the cemetery plot next to Oswald’s in 1975 and had the granite marker placed there in 1997. Beef, born Patric Abedin, now lives in Manhattan and calls himself a nonperforming performance artist.
On Nov. 21, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, landed at the former Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth as part of a two-day Texas tour. Among the many gathered for the arrival was young Patric, the 6-year-old son of an Air Force navigator.
The future Beef was Mr. Popular the next morning at Waverly Park Elementary School, as he regaled his first-grade classmates with his presidential story. They soon went outside for recess, while his asthma kept him indoors. He was alone, then, when the principal announced over the loudspeaker that the president had been shot; alone, too, when the principal followed up to say the president was dead.
A young boy’s life continued....
At the age of 10, he survived a car crash....
Yes, he admits, he has a penchant for the morbid. But this does not mean he bought the plot next to Oswald’s as a joke, or a piece of installation art, or anything of the kind. It’s personal. It’s about change. The fragility of life. Something.
And no, Nick Beef will not be buried inches from the man who killed Kennedy....
As if that were somehow accepted fact. Even if you buy the ridiculous magic bullet theory, the scope on the alleged rifle was defective -- meaning Oswald (if that even was him up there) was literally firing in the dark.
Related: Globe Admits Intelligence Agency Involvement in JFK Assassination
All indications are Oswald was an FBI informant that infiltrated the plot, and who was then framed as a patsy.
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Who cares where the beef is?
Also see:
Auctioning Off Oswald's Coffin
Oswald’s former home torn down
Dallas home with Oswald link offered for $500,000
