Dallas Demolishes Lee Harvey Oswald's Apartment
By: NBC DFW
Updated: January 14, 2013
After years of decay, the city of Dallas demolished the 88-year old building at Elsbeth and Davis infamous for being where Lee Harvey Oswald lived before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The demolition of the old apartment building started around 8:30 Monday morning. By 8:40 the first level unit where the Oswald's are said to have lived was gone.
Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife Marina lived at the complex from November 1962 to March 1963, eight months before the JFK assasination.
About a half dozen curious people with a strong sense of history showed up across the street to watch and take pictures of the 88-year old building coming down.
Jose Sorola told us he wished the Oswald unit could have been saved and perhaps been restored and part of historic tours. But since the city said it had to go, Sorola bought a small piece of it.
"Yesterday, I came by and actually bought a window from Lee Harvey Oswald's unit number two and what I plan on doing is try to restore it as best as possible, and make it a little display if anybody is interested in using that it'll be nice, perserve a little history, keep the building alive somehow," said Sorola who paid $125 for the window.
The crumbling building, located at 600 Elsbeth Street, had not been occupied for several years.
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