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Last updated Jul 03 2026.
Originally posted Jun 29 2026 10:33 AM.
Mother of accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Dallas, Texas Police Officer J. D. Tippit. Widow of Oswald's father Robert E. Lee Oswald d. 19 August 1939 and divorced from Edward John Pic, Jr. and Edwin A. Ekdahl.
Claimed to her death that her son was innocent of the assassination, and he was instead an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency of the USA. She is buried next to her son Lee Harvey Oswald.
For the last 15 years, this curious name has vexed the obsessive assassination buffs who make regular pilgrimages to the Oswald plot here in Fort Worth. That is because a pinkish granite marker suddenly appeared beside the assassin's grave sometime in 1997. And all it said was Nick Beef ... he says, he came by it innocently, even accidentally. But now, with the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination less than four months away, he has decided to reveal himself, sort of, to The New York Times ... And to prove that he is who he says he is, Mr. Beef reaches into a small satchel and pulls out a contract from 1975 for Burial Plot 258 in the Fairlawn section of Rose Hill ($175), as well as a receipt from 1996 for the purchase and installation of a granite stone to be engraved NICK BEEF ($987.19). Mr. Beef, 56, is a writer and "nonperforming performance artist" with a penchant for the morbid, he says, who has never done stand-up comedy - an important point. He says that Nick Beef is a long-held persona; his given name is Patric Abedin.
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