Wrapped only in a cardboard box and placed in the bed of a Ford F150, Lee Harvey Oswald’s original grave marker was driven nearly 1,000 miles to Dallas from Roscoe, Ill., where it had been displayed in a museum. Owner David Card said he and a friend picked the famous artifact up personally, because he did not trust anyone else to “bring it home.” Card, owner of Poor David’s Pub near downtown Dallas, had been embroiled in a four-year court battle, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, over who rightfully owned the marker. Like so many other chapters of the Nov. 22, 1963 Kennedy assassination in Dallas, the journey of the accused killer’s grave marker is a strange one. It was eventually returned to Oswald’s mother, Marguerite Oswald, who, believing it would just be stolen again off her son’s grave, instead placed it in the crawl space of her Fort Worth home. The marker, which was discovered by an electrician working under the home, was passed around by Card’s family, eventually landing in the hands of a distant relative who in 2011 sold it for $45,000 to the owner of the museum in Illinois. Card said he has no plans to place the piece of history inside his club, other than to possibly have a “private viewing” for those who have supported his efforts to get it back. “I’m very relieved and happy to have the stone back here in Texas where it belongs,” said Card, standing over the 140-pound granite marker. Reflecting his hopes, he said, “Everyone who goes into The Sixth Floor and sees it and photographs it will be grateful it is where it is.” 
 
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– Dallas bar-owner David Card spent nearly four years of his life and a "brutal" amount in legal fees for the right to return the grave marker of Lee Harvey Oswald, who he calls "the most famous assassin in the history of civilization," home to Texas. And, last week he finally did just that, the Dallas Morning News reports. The strange history of the marker started on the fourth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, when some Oklahoma teens swiped it from a Fort Worth cemetery as a prank. CBS DFW reports the marker was returned to Oswald's mother, who put a more discreet marker on his grave and stashed the original in her crawlspace. Card's father eventually bought the Oswald home. After changing hands within the family, a distant relative eventually sold the marker to Illinois' Historic Auto Attractions in 2011 for $45,000. CBS reports Card went to court to prove his relative didn't have the right to sell the marker, and on July 19 the parties settled out of court. Last week, Card and a friend drove the 140-pound granite marker back to Texas all the way from Roscoe, Ill.—a distance of more than 900 miles. "You touch it, and it's like you're reaching 6 feet down and right into Oswald's coffin," he told the Morning News. Card tells CBS he'd like to give the marker to the museum housed in the building from which Oswald allegedly fired, but he may have a private showing of it in his bar first. At the moment, he claims that Oswald's grave marker is "in an undisclosed location guarded by the hounds from hell."