Lee Harvey Oswald's burial was so lacking in mourning that reporters came to report that he was reluctant to carry a coffin.

Paul Groody is the director of the Miller Funeral Home in Dallas, Texas, USA.

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Lee Harvey Oswald (middle) was captured in November 1963 Photo: AFP

When Groody called to place a wreath, he asked the florist to call him Bobo.

Groody is lying.

Oswald was arrested on charges of shooting Kennedy dead while the President was sitting in an open car marching through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

At Parkland Hospital, where Kennedy was also taken to emergency, Oswald died 105 minutes after being shot.

Secret forces call Groody, manager of the funeral home in Fort Worth.

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Lee Harvey Oswald's family attended the funeral in November 1963 Photo: AP

The first problem is finding a funeral director.

When the Oswald family showed up to perform the funeral at 16 pm, Groody had another problem.

Groody addressed Preston McGraw, the local reporter he had known before.

Finally, at least 7 reporters took part in carrying the coffin.

On the 4th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, Oswald's tombstone at Rose Hill Cemetery was stolen.

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Reporters carried the coffin Lee Harvey Oswald in November 1963 Photo: AP

When Marguerite died in 1981, she was buried in a grave next to her son.

Because the coffin had rotted, the funeral home Miller, renamed Baumgardner, told Robert, Oswald's brother, that they would put the body in the new coffin.

But the truth is not so.

The Cochran correspondent still remembers his colleagues Jerry Flemmons persuading him as he pondered whether or not he should accept the invitation to be the unwilling coffin bearer: "Cochran, if we are going to write an article about Lee Harvey's funeral