Legal fight over JFK killing window

DALLAS, March 26 (UPI) -- A Tennessee man who claimed to own the window Lee Harvey Oswald perched on to fire at President John F. Kennedy has died, complicating a legal fight.

Caruth Byrd, 67, of Van, Texas, says he inherited the window from his father, a one-time owner of the Texas School Book Depository, The Dallas Morning News reported. Byrd decided to sell the window on eBay a few years ago.

Then Aubrey Mayhew of Nashville offered what he said was the genuine window on eBay. Byrd sued two years ago, claiming that Mayhew devalued his window.

The trial is scheduled to begin April 15 in state court in Dallas. Lawyers are unsure how Mayhew's death at 81 in Nashville Sunday affect the case.

Parris Mayhew says his father did not want to sell the window. He only listed it on eBay to make the public aware that Byrd's claim to own the real window had been challenged.