By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 14:52 EST, 10 August 2013 | UPDATED: 17:06 EST, 10 August 2013 John F. Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald may have been a loner in life, but it seemed in death he at least had Nick Beef next to him Visitors to Oswald's grave in Fort Worth, Texas have wondered who Beef was since a mysterious gravestone appeared next to the legendary killer's around 1997. The New York Times solved that mystery Friday, tracking down Nick Beef to New York City where he is alive and well. Mystery solved: The man whose headstone sits next to Lee Harvey Oswald's is actually alive and living in New York
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Nick Beef, born Patric Abedin, was 6-years-old when he witnessed President Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline land in Fort Worth Texas on November 21, 1963
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The next day the president was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
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In 1975, Beef decided to buy the plot next to the legendary assassin
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When he returned to Texas in 1996 to bury his mom, he had a gravestone put up on his plot
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Beef has no intention of being buried on the plot - preferring cremation
Eventually Beef would leave the state and move to @placeholder, where he performed in a sketch-comedy troupe, and did some freelance humor writing.