Owner applies for permission to tear down home that briefly housed presidential assassin.
Today, the former homes of murderers and sex offenders are routinely demolished in the hope of providing victims’ families with a degree of closure and in the possibly vain hope of eliminating any last vestiges of residual evil.
So it is remarkable to find still standing a house which was once home to a man whose purportedly lone actions on a fateful day on 22 November 1963 possibly changed the course of US and world history.
But the house in which Lee Harvey Oswald – the killer of US president John F Kennedy – lived briefly between 1962 and 1963 is soon to be no more, as its current owner – Jane Bryant – has applied for permission to demolish it.
Jane Bryant said she hopes to hire a demolition contractor soon and is trying to salvage and sell the building’s hundreds of bricks in the meantime.
The building has been boarded up and the site surrounded by a chain-link fence for years.
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