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| Lee Harvey Oswald's Jail Cell May Become Museum |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/25/2002 |
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Mayor Laura Miller and members of the Dallas City Council raised the possibility Wednesday of turning the Old City Hall -- where John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was jailed and where Jack Ruby killed him -- into a museum. The cell where Oswald sat following his arrest on Nov. 22, 1963, is on the fifth floor and has been cut off from public view for many years. In recent years, the Dallas Police Department has used the old jail for storage. The basement hallway where Ruby shot Oswald at point-blank range as Oswald was being moved remains a blank corridor between a records office and a garage. The police department continues to use the building, but the City Council moved to newer facilities years ago. Prisoners now are housed elsewhere. Miller said the council would probably use $15 million in bond funds to turn the municipal annex, the brick building attached to Old City Hall in 1956, into a city courthouse. The council would then earmark at least $15 million in next year's bond program to overhaul Old City Hall, a beaux-arts style building of granite and limestone. 'It is a beautiful architectural jewel in downtown Dallas that we don't use for a particularly great use, which is municipal courts,' Miller said in a story in Thursday's editions of The Dallas Morning News. |
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