What's Your Passion & Why

[Rsmyth]

For me it is the little known facts about the people involved in historic events, what they did after their 15-minutes of fame and where they ended up and are buried. Hence my interest in their final resting places. Books like Thomas Bogar's "Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination" will be of great interest to me when it comes out. BTW - Tom has been very generous in sharing his research. When searching out graves, there is a lot of history and interesting stories uncovered. I am sure many of you have heard of Nick Beef and his association with Lee Harvey Oswald. If you have seen Parkland, you know that when Oswald died, no cemetery wanted the body. One of the detectives pulled strings for his mother and got a plot donated. For years the cemetery (Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth, TX) would not acknowledge that he was interred there. Through the JFJ assassination underground, it became known that the plot next to Oswald's had been purchased by a comedian who had a marker placed on it with the name Nick Beef. All you had to do was go to the cemetery and ask for directions to Nick Beef's grave. This plot is still empty today.
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Oswald's mother is buried some 75 feet directly behind Lee Harvey. I took this picture about a decade ago.