Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe FORTH WORTH, Texas, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Who's buried under the "NICK BEEF' grave marker next to reputed presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in Texas? No one, says the owner, Patric Abedin. The 56-year-old New York City writer and "non-performing performance artist" says Nick Beef is a name he sometimes uses professionally and he decided to put it on the grave stone when he bought the plot in the Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth 15 years ago, The New York Times reported Saturday. Advertisement Nick Beef was a mystery man until the newspaper tracked him down ahead of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Abedin says he bought Burial Plot 258 next to where Oswald is buried for $175 on a payment plan and had the granite stone engraved for $987.19. Abedin says he decided to snatch up the available plot because as a 6-year-old he saw Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline when they arrived at the former Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth on Nov. 21, 1963, the day before the president was killed. Advertisement He says in future years his mother would occasionally stop by the cemetery. "She'd get out and look at Oswald's grave," he said, "and tell me, 'Never forget that you got to see Kennedy the night before he died.'" Abedin said the best reason to explain why he bought the plot is: "It meant something to me in life. It was a place I could go and feel comfortable." But he doesn't anticipate being buried alongside Oswald. "I'd prefer to be cremated," he said.
