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David Smith in Dallas, Texas

‘The house is a part of history’: inside the museum dedicated to JFK’s killer

People on the Big D Fun Tours JFK Trolley take photos of the house on Beckley Avenue where Lee Harvey Oswald lived.
People on the Big D Fun Tours JFK Trolley take photos of the house on Beckley Avenue where Lee Harvey Oswald lived. Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy

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 was staying before he allegedly gunned down President John F Kennedy 60 years ago on Wednesday, leaving a scar on the American conscience.

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