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JFK Assassination Garage May Become a Museum

The Museum Board of Irving, Texas, is considering preserving the home of Ruth Paine, in whose garage Lee Harvey Oswald stored the gun that killed President Kennedy.

The house, on residential W. 5th Street, is where Marina Oswald, Lee's wife, lived in the months leading to the assassination. Lee didn't live there, but he did store his bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano rifle in the garage. He picked it up and left with it on the morning that he shot JFK.

The Museum Board, according to a January 2 story in the Dallas Morning News, is considering turning the house and garage into a museum, or at least sticking an historical plaque into the lawn. Kim Short, the home's current owner, is reportedly open to the idea of a plaque, but closed to the idea of selling her house. [01/06/2007]

JFK Assassination Garage

Address:: 2515 W. 5th St., Irving, TX
Directions:: I-30 exit 34, then north on Belt Line Rd/8th St for 3.5 miles. Turn right onto Rock Island Rd, then after a mile turn right onto Story Rd. Drive south to 5th Street and turn right. The house is #2515, but there's no plaque or marker -- just the house and its garage. People live here, so please be courteous. And don't sneak around -- the owners hate that.
Hours:: Private Residence.

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