New England IPA / Year-round brew

Lee Hazy
Oswald.

Juicy stone fruit and melon, with a velvety finish. An unfiltered, generously dry-hopped IPA with plenty of fruit character.

6.9% ABV · 20 IBU · Brewed in Oak Cliff

Meet the beer Find Lee Hazy IPA

Original Lee Hazy Oswald label with turquoise, orange, and pink marquee stars

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Beer field notes

Oak Cliff, Texas / 08

Style: New England IPA
ABV: 6.9%
Release: Year-round brew
Brewed in: Oak Cliff, Texas

Tasting notes: Stone fruit · Melon · Velvety finish

01 / A name from the neighborhood

A little haze.
A lot of history.

Some names could come from anywhere. This one belongs to Oak Cliff. Lee Hazy Oswald puts a local twist on a New England IPA, with a label inspired by the Texas Theatre marquee: its neon bands, curved edges, and star, reimagined in turquoise, orange, and pink.

The beer is juicy, double dry hopped, and velvety soft. The story behind the name takes us down Jefferson Boulevard, to the Texas Theatre—and to a day that put Oak Cliff in the world’s headlines.

Follow the story

A hand holds a colorful Lee Hazy Oswald IPA can in front of autumn foliage — Lee Hazy Oswald / Made here in Oak Cliff.

02 / Jefferson Boulevard, Oak Cliff

Behind the name.

Look up at the Texas Theatre marquee, then look at the can. Those curved neon bands and that unmistakable star are where the artwork begins.

The Texas Theatre’s vertical TEXAS sign with colorful stars and curved red neon bands against a blue sky — The stars and neon bands behind the can artwork / Texas Theatre, Jefferson Boulevard.

231 West Jefferson.

The Texas Theatre opened on April 21, 1931, bringing a grand movie palace to Jefferson Boulevard. On November 22, 1963, Dallas police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald inside its auditorium after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the killing of Officer J. D. Tippit.

That afternoon became part of a much larger national story. But the theatre’s life continued: closures, a fire, preservation efforts, and a return to screenings and gatherings. Today, its marquee remains part of Oak Cliff’s everyday landscape.

Read the theatre’s history

November 23, 1963 / Dallas Municipal Archives, via UNT’s Portal to Texas History.

A national story. Local places.

History at street level.

Here, the names in the headlines have addresses. A theatre on Jefferson. A rooming house on North Beckley. Places that keep the past close—and give us a reason to keep asking questions about the neighborhood we call home.

03 / Hidden City Podcast

Inside the
rooming house.

Episode 026 / Patricia Puckett-Hall

Doug and Grant Klembara sit down with Patricia Puckett-Hall at the Oswald Rooming House Museum. Family memories, neighborhood history, and a conversation recorded inside the house itself.

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