For years, the identity and origin of the grave plot next to one
of America's most notorious murderers confounded historians
while also making them giggle under their breath. But now, all
these years later, The New York Times revealed Nick Beef's true
identity.   The Nick Beef mystery started at some point in 1997,
no one was sure when, after a grave marker appeared on the
previously-vacant spot at the Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery, in
Fort Worth, Texas, next to Lee Harvey Oswald. The graveyard
wouldn't reveal anything because of privacy concerns, except
that there was no internment card for any Nick Beef on file. The
theories surrounding Beef's origin were wild. Historians and
journalists tried to track down the infamous Beef, a comedian in
New York City according to one widely accepted theory, to no
avail. Others guessed it was put there on purpose for people
looking to visit Oswald's grave too embarrassed to mention it
out loud. Nick Beef had a backstory crafted the old fashioned
way: through whispers and sto