Lee Harvey Oswald’s Boarding House!

Lee Harvey Oswald’s Boarding House!

Lee Harvey Oswald's Boarding House!

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John F. Kennedy was one of the most popular U.S. presidents of modern times. He was charismatic with movie star looks and a beautiful wife and young children. Kennedy was a war hero, the first Catholic president and seemed the perfect leader to take the country into a new era of civil equality and prosperity. When he was struck down by an assassin on November 22, 1963 while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, the whole world cried. Almost immediately it was announced that the perpetrator had been captured and identified as 23-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald.

Oswald denied shooting JFK and a short time later, police officer J.D. Tippit. During his interrogation, he indicated that he was a perfect cold war era patsy due to his prior defection to Russia and fluency in the Russian language. Just days after being arrested he was shot down by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, which opened up further speculation fueling the beginning of what would be a rash of conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination. Though public interest and speculation waned by 1980, Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK introduced the subject to a new generation. Today, many people believe the assassination was a government conspiracy and coverup.

Patricia Puckett Hall was one of the few people who interacted with Oswald on a personal level when her grandmother owned the boarding house in Dallas where he stayed for six weeks while working at the Texas School Book Depository. Now a third generation owner of the boarding house, Patricia lived several houses down the street from her grandmother but went there with her two brothers every day after school until her mother came home from work. She was 11 years old when Oswald rented the room.

She remembers he kept to himself, had no visitors, only came out long enough to listen to the news and rarely play a little catch with her two brothers in the front yard. Her grandmother thought Oswald to be a good boarder as he was quiet, kept his room and the bathroom neat and paid his $8.00 a week rent on time. Something Patricia most particularly remembers is what Oswald said to her brothers after he broke up a fight between them: ". . and don’t ever do anything...that would harm another human being." Two weeks later JFK was assassinated.

Now for sale, the boarding house made famous by its infamous guest, is 2,047 square feet with 9 bedrooms and 2 baths between the main floor and basement in the main house while the 2-story structure in the back houses 8 bedrooms and 2 baths. It was originally built in the 1930s by a doctor who used the extra bedrooms as examining rooms for his practice.

The Lake Cliff neighborhood where the boarding house is located, began in 1890 with the creation of the lake and in the 1890s it became Texas' largest cultural/amusement complex. When the complex closed in 1913, the 44 acre park was sold to the city and a residential neighborhood started developing along its borders. Most homes were built from 1890 through 1930 in a vast array of architectural styles including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical, Tudor, Prairie, and Craftsman. Now designated as a National Historic District, the area is undergoing a restoration trend. It was at the neighborhood Oak Cliff Theatre where Oswald was captured.

The boarding house where Lee Harvey Oswald lived when he was accused of shooting JFK, priced at $500,000. Property conveys with all original furnishings associated with Oswald.

Source: www.theoswaldhouse.com