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Apparent Lee Harvey Oswald Gravestone Leaving Roscoe

What's believed to be the original gravestone for the man blamed for killing President John F. Kennedy has been returned to Texas. 

David Card of Dallas has the Lee Harvey Oswald granite marker following an ownership dispute with Historic Auto Attractions of Roscoe, Illinois. 

KTVT-TV reports a settlement was reached July 19. Card on Tuesday told The Dallas Morning News that touching the tombstone is like ``reaching 6 feet down and right into Oswald's coffin.'' 

Oswald was in custody Nov. 24, 1963, when he was fatally shot by Jack Ruby. 

Oswald's tombstone turned up missing in 1967, but was eventually returned to his mother. When she died her home was purchased by Card's father and stepmother. 

The gravestone, found at the home, was sold in 2011 by a Card relative.