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.16 Section 1 Chicago Tribune, Monday, October 5. 1981 'Frompagoone "7 Exhumed body Oswald 'beyond doubt' Old church a link that should stand Oswald's widow THE COMPLICATED and secret pUa to exhume the body began late last week, when Oswald's older brother, Robert Oswald of Wichita Falls, decided to end his opposition to the exhumation. A decision by the Texas Court of Appeals, which indicated strongly that the court would give Mrs. Porter permission to open the grave, was a major reason for his decision. Since Eddowes first advanced his theory in the mid-1970s, and then began pressing in the courts for the exhumation order in 1979, it had been Robert who fiercely opposed it.

Last summer, Mrs. Porter gave Eddowes permission to open the grave. The group was two days away from its planned exhumation when Robert Oswald found out and obtained a temporary injunction. Mrs. Porter, who in 1980 became convinced of the possibility her husband was not the real Lee Harvey Oswald, took over the legal fight several months ago.

She withdrew the permission she had granted to Eddowes and sought the mation order herself. United Press International reported that more than 150 X-rays and pictures were taken of the body from all angles during the autopsy. THE EXHUMATION BEGAN in predawn darkness in extreme secrecy with the arrival of security guards at the cemetery. Within an hour, workmen had pushed through a concrete vault to the coffin, and in another half-hour had lifted the rotted coffin to the surface. Mrs.

Porter and her husband sat in a car, watching the men work. William Dear, who handled part of the security for the operation, said the vault had cracked and water had seeped into the coffin, reducing the body to skeletal remains. THE BODY WAS taken from the original coffin, placed in a white cardboard box, and taken in a 15-car motorcade on the 45-minute trip to the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. From Tribunt Wu StnnCM DALLAS The grave of Lee Harvey Oswald was opened Sunday, and a team of pathologists said an autopsy confirmed the body was that of the man accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

The finding ends 18 years of speculation and court battles. "We both individually and as a team have concluded beyond any doubt and I mean beyond any doubt that the individual buried under the name Lee Harvey Oswald in Rose Hill Cemetery is Lee Harvey Oswald," said Dr. Linda Norton, head of the pathology team. "We hope this puts the matter to rest without further questions as to the identity of the body," Norton said. "We hope the Porters (Oswald's widow Marina, her second husband, and their three children) can go about living a normal life without any more speculation." THE MOST CRITICAL pieces or evidence, she said, were dental records dating to Oswald's Marine Corps service in the mid-1950s and a "bone depression" behind the left ear consistent with a "mastoid operation," which Oswald had in 1945 at age 6.

Asked if earlier Oswald dental records could have been faked, Dr. Irving Sopher, a West Virginia pathologist, said: "There is no way, in my opinion; there is no reason to doubt. We have very meticulously examined the records." Dr. Vincent DiMaio, chief medical examiner for San Antonio, said the body was "in an advanced state of decomposition, with partial skeletalization." He confirmed that two rings placed on the little finger of the left hand in 1963 by Mrs. Porter, before Oswald was buried, were identified by Mrs.

Porter. The rings were reburied with the body. Norton said "the best medical guesstimate" as to the height of the corpse was feet 9 inches, consistent with Oswald's height. "In. all medical probability," she added, "this body has not been exhumed since it was put in the ground." Long ordeal over for DALLAS a'PIV-Mariaa Oswald Porter, the Russian-born widow of the accused assassin of President John F.

Kennedy, had always said she wanted the remains of her late husband exhumed to answer doubts for the sake of her family. Mrs. Porter, 40, who married carpenter Kenneth Porter and is the mother of three children, was present for the exhumation Sunday. She refused to view the remains but had trusted friends view the body. On Saturday Mrs.

Porter spent hours meeting with attorneys, planning the procedure. "I'm doing this for my family," she She said the medical team wouid write a detailed report to be published in a scientific journal. THE RESULTS of the autopsy disproved a theory that Kennedy was killed by a Russian agent who had assumed Oswald's identity. British author Michael Eddowes, who paid for the exhumation, had adanced the theory that Oswald was replaced by a Russian agent when Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in 1959. He said evidence "indicated" it was the agent who killed Kennedy in Dallas on Nov.

22, 1963, and then was shot and killed as a national television audience watched by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby, and buried in Rose Hill Burial Park in Ft. Worth. Sources estimated the exhumation cost Eddowes between $8,000 and $15,000. After the autopsy, Oswald's remains were placed in a body bag. The bag and fragments of the original wooden coffin were put in a new metal casket and driven back to Rose Hill for a private reburial in the same grave.

The metal said a few weeks ago during the court battle to exhume the remains. "I never want my children to go through what I've had to go through." THE PORTERS ARRIVED at a Ft. Worth motel early Sunday for the long-awaited exhumation, entering Room' 144 as about 15 uniformed officers stood outside, some specially assigned as her bodyguards. Mrs. Porter questioned her attorney, Jerry Pittman, asking one last time if the exhumation was legal.

Pittman assured her it was, because a temporary restraining order had expired at midnight, less than six hours earlier. casket was to be surrounded by a steel vault. Paul Groody. the mortician who embalmed Oswald in 1963 and participated in Sunday's autopsy, said that although the body might not be exhumed again "in our lifetime," he felt there was a historical need to preserve it in metal. MRS.

PORTER, who joined Eddowes in the battle for permission to exhume the body, believed strongly that no corpse would be found, saying it had been tampered with after the burial, probably by U.S. government agents. "I always intended for this to be a private matter, but it became public because of circumstances beyond my control," Mrs. Porter said after the autopsy. "It's very unfortunate it became such a public event.

Now I have my answers," she said, "and from now on, I only want to be Mrs. Porter." Mrs. Porter's husband, Kenneth, said: "If there are any questions in the future, I hope they are directed at someone other than Marina. We've done all we can do." Continued from page one when they were built, even the poor people, the working-class people, people who didn't speak English, loved beauty. EVEN THOUGH they lived in wooden cottage or a basement apartment, they, with their own nickels and dimes, could build from their dreams.

Unlike the rich man's mansion or the architecturally pleasing office building downtown, which did not belong to them, the church did. They built it. Or their fathers did. It was theirs. It was something beautiful.

It was something solid. It would last long after their own humble abodes fell down. It was a tribute to these people's optimism. A sign, stacked in mortar and carved in wood, of their hopes. It was a memorial of belief that they and their likes, and their grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, and the city itself were here to stay.

HOLY FAMILY Church, at 1080 W. Roosevelt is one of those testaments. And yet, they say they are thinking of tearing it down. The second-oldest Roman Cflthnlir Church in thn nirv thov nra thinking of ripping down? A church that survived the Chicago Fire that has stood proudly since 1860 they are saying they might Bet rid of? "It is unthinkable but it is true," says The Rev. George Lane, a Jesuit priest who lives at Holy Family Church.

"It is umnuiKaDie mat anyone wouia propose to tear it down "It is one of our few links with the past. 1- 1 ii is one oi me expressions ana reminders of our ethnic history. In tearing it down, we are raping ourselves. The Jesuit order owns Holy Family Church. Back when it was built, when most around it was prairie, it was the first Jesuit church in Chicago.

Its 6-foot-thick walls, its 226-foot tower, its ornate, carved wood interior, and its stained-glass windows were all paid for by the contributions of the Irish immigrants. BUT THE PROVINCIAL leaders of the Jesuit order have indicated now that they are considering tearing down Holy Family and building a new church in its place. The reason, cited in a letter to parishioners' most of whom now are black or Puerto Rican is the cost of maintaining and repairing the stately old monument. The announcement that the grand old church on Roosevelt Road may come down caught parishioners by surprise, discouraged and feeling without clout in a city of clout, the parishioners got a structural engineer who has worked on look at theirs. Rill T.nvltlra 1c hie noma 17a maa UHvavnH IllO IIB1IIC.

Ill lilOUC CI study of their church and came up with figures that shoiw that tearing it down makes no sense at all. On the contrary, he says; "FOR LESS THAN one-half million," says Lauicka, "you can spruce the place up. It is structurally sound. No one has ever said it isn't. If you repair the tower, patch up the roof, clean the outside, paint the trim, and nut in snmn new wirino nnH heating, it'll be a gem again.

It is just a distinguished old gentleman in a three-piece suit who fell into a puddle and never got dusted off. The suit is still good ana so is the gentleman. "To tear it down would post arniinrl $300,000 and then to build a new one UffllltH nnci Df (Ka minimum stf AArt nvuiu vuoi iv 11 til in null 1 vi I That's a million. But for half of that, you can preserve it ana restore it. To tear it down is crazy.

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I Trihuna photo by Wrfllw Nf.at Parishioners at Holy Family Church continue their prayer vigil to preserve the 121 -year-old church. standing now. That would cost $15 million and there are no craftsmen around like they were. The grandsons of the crafts-men who built that church are dead. That church is a crown they are holding in their hands.

To tear it down, is to throw a golden crown, away. "AND LET ME ADD," says Lavicka, "that this is what the history of the people of Chicago is all about. This church, filled with every ethnic group that has come here. This would never happen in a well-to-do neighborhood. They only tear down the beautiful old things when they are surrounded by the poor." "It was built to last as long as it can stand up," says parishioner Eleanora Jackson, who lives exactly 100 footsteps from the church.

"And it's standing just fine. It just needs a few touches. "This is happening all through the city. The old buildings in the rich neighborhoods are being preserved, but in the poor sections, they think they are forgotten and they tear them down. Then what have we got left? Nothing.

"Everybody's forgetting that it was, poor people that built this church just like there are poor people going there today. I guess they feel that that was back then and those poor people are long gone. Nobody hears the voices of the poor now. We love beauty too." ALL LAST WEEK the parishioners of Holy Family the 500 families that go there held a prayer vigil in their church each night as a show of support for keeping the old church. They say they want what they have not something new.

They want its old lines, its high pillars, its walnut carvings, its statues of the saints of different ethnic groups that have moved through its neighborhood. The people feel part of all that 120-year tradition. They want to keep it. Eleanora Jackson wrote a poem about her old church. It begins with, "She is not young anymore." And it ends, "She has been sentenced.

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