Dallas Strip Clubs: Heir to Oswald boardinghouse shares its history
… I don’t believe the gun was here,” Hall said. “Back then, if you lived in the rooming house, you didn’t have the expectancy of privacy. People were in and out (of the rooms) all the time. Grandmother knew what was in these rooms. If there was a gun here, it was awfully well-hidden.”
Hall hopes to use donations to restore the room to appear as it did Nov. 22, 1963.
The bed and other original furnishings, she said, are stored at an undisclosed location.
Hall said that on that historic date 46 year ago, either the FBI or Dallas police searched Oswald’s belongings and left with the bedsheets, which upset her grandmother. Johnson, she said, had as many as 16 roomers living under her roof.
“She wanted those sheets,” Hall said, “not because who slept on them. She was very pragmatic. She could have used them.”
This month the gray fedora that strip club owner Jack Ruby wore when he fatally shot Oswald sold at a Dallas auction for $45,000.