Pictured Marker Probably Not What Caption Asserts It to Be
While looking for Oswald's grave several years ago I was told in a conversation with Shannon Rose Hill cemetery staff that the pictured marker is not Lee Harvey Oswald's grave but instead is a marker and small plot maintained by the Oswald family to divert "assassination ghouls" (my words) and vandals (their words) from the real Oswald family burial plot elsewhere in the cemetery, with Lee Harvey buried separately a short distance away. At the time I did a cursory search for such an Oswald family plot but was unable to locate it.
As noted in the main article, at the time of his death Lee Harvey's mother Marguerite, brother Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Jr., wife Marina and two daughters were still living, all conceivably eligible to be buried in such a family plot; their desirousness to be buried together in such a plot is unknown, but Marina and her daughters' understandable ongoing reclusiveness, and in light of the fact that Marina remarried, and the fact that she and Lee Harvey's daughters were too young to have ever really known him, suggests that maybe they have other burial plans, which calls into question the genuineness of the story I was told about there truly being a separate Oswald family plot.
I don't know where Lee Harvey's mother Marguerite - portrayed as quite the weirdo in a recent local newspaper (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) article - is buried, but there did not appear to be room for two people to be buried in the plot identified by the pictured marker. But someone paid for this maker and the plot (?) it occupies, so that party would seem to also have had the wherewithal to conceivably purchase a separate Oswald family plot for Marguerite and her sons Robert Lee Oswald, Jr. and John Edward Pic.
In any case, given the cemetery staff's remarks to me after I told them I was just a curious party, I think presenting the pictured ambiguous gravestone as being that of Lee Harvey Oswald is untenable, improbable and should be discontinued.108.66.238.104 (talk) 14:51, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
