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Five hundred thousand dollars. That’s how much Patricia Hall is asking for the little house she owns at 1026 N. Beckley. It’s a 2,000-square-foot house valued for tax purposes at around $65,000. But it’s where Lee Harvey Oswald slept the night before he killed the president.

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Hall put the rooming house, which was Oswald’s first stop after the Kennedy assassination, on the market earlier this year. CBS Sunday Morning aired a segment about the house this past weekend.

Hall tells CBS she hopes someone will buy the house for a museum or bed and breakfast. The $500,000 price tag makes it the most expensive property on the market in that zip code, according to a search of real estate listings. As a comparison, you could buy this four-bedroom house with a pool in Stevens Park Estates for $2,000 less. Or, with $500,000, you could buy this 3-bedroom house with a pool in Wynnewood North, plus this cabin on 6 acres in Roaring Springs and still have enough left over to put a kid through college.

The CBS story, below, sheds some insight into how the Oswald connection affected Hall’s aunt, Gladys Johnson, who rented a room to a future assassin.