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Lee Harvey Oswald's Car

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Lee Harvey Oswald's Car

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The car of President John F. Kennedy's assassin -- Lee Harvey Oswald -- is one of Ripley's featured attractions.

Technically, this car belonged to Oswald's neighbor, Buell Wesley Frazier. Oswald had no driver's license and Frazier drove him to work.

On the morning of Nov. 22, 1963 Frazier drove Oswald to the Texas School Book Depository. In the back seat of this car wrapped in papers was the $12 rifle that Oswald used to assassinate Kennedy.

Frazier thought the package contained curtain rods. Stricken with grief and haunted by the memory, Frazier sold the car years later for a mere $10

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