JUDGE STOPS EXHUMATION OF BODY IN OSWALD GRAVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404810013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 20, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE A 'PLAFJ2D
ON PAGY . 1,_
THE WASHINGTON POST
20 September 1980
AROUND THE NATION
,fudge Stops Exhumation
Of body in Oswald Grave
FORT WORTH, Tex-A state judge
yesterday rebuffed efforts of a British
author to open the grave of Lee Har-
vey Oswald. to find out whether a
Russian'spy,is buried there instead.
"NWnecessity or compelling reason
for the threatened exhumation or au-
topsy: are shown . ,".State District
Court Judge James Wright ruled. "In
short, rumors, speculative theory,
conjecture,, and public curiosity will
not suffice " t > '
.Wright granted Oswald's brother,
Robert a-tempo-r a r y injunction
against` author Michael,Eddowes, who
contends a Soviet agent, not Oswald,
killed President John F. Kennedy.
Robert Oswald had filed suit in
Wright's court. lastrmonth after he..
.learned Eddowes had `obtained per-
mi~ssiAn, from;. his brother's widow,
M aria Oswald',Pdrtgr, to exhume the
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