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Car museum in legal battle over Kennedy assassin's tombstone

The Historic Auto Attractions Museum of Roscoe, Ill. counts among its attractions a John Dillinger getaway car, one of Adolf Hitler's staff cars and limousines used by Josef Stalin and Evita Peron. It also happens to house Lee Harvey Oswald's tombstone, displayed in a room devoted to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Dallas pub owner David Card says the stone is rightfully his....

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