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JUDGE STOPS EXHUMATION OF BODY IN OSWALD GRAVE

Document Type: 
CREST [1]
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General CIA Records [2]
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP90-00552R000404810013-2
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RIPPUB
Original Classification: 
K
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1
Document Creation Date: 
December 22, 2016
Document Release Date: 
July 16, 2010
Sequence Number: 
13
Case Number: 
Publication Date: 
September 20, 1980
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OPEN SOURCE
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404810013-2 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 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404810013-2
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