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Ex-journalist recalls serving as Oswald pallbearer
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Reporters carry the inexpensive wooden casket of Lee Harvey Oswald to a grave. - photo by Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas — On a gloomy November afternoon, I helped carry the inexpensive wooden casket of Lee Harvey Oswald to a grave on a slight rise dotted with dying grass. With no mourners around to serve as pallbearers, it was a task that fell to me and a few other reporters covering the funeral of John F. Kennedy's assassin. Fifty years later, I remain a reluctant and minor footnote in American history.
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