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5. on New Year s Day 1963, Oswald ordered several political

pamphlets from the Trotskyite Pioneer Press and soon began
checking out books about Marxism, Trotskyism, and American
imperialism in Latin America, especially Cuba;230
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6. Vaughn Marlowe, the executive officer of the Los Angeles chapter

of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) whom Leopoldo and
Angel almost recruited to be the shooter in the June 1963 plot
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a Trotskyist in two books about the Far East;232
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8. FBI agent John William Miller reported that CIA agent William
George Gaudet told him of a purchase of paintings by Jack Ruby
from Lorenzo Borenstein, a close relative of Leon Trotsky.233
Gaudet is the CIA agent who got the Mexican tourist card next to
Oswald s in New Orleans in September 1963.234 He also told
attorney Bernard Fensterwald in 1975: "She [Dorothea Murret,
Oswald s cousin linked to Rostow's associate Harold Isaacs] may
have worked for the agency in New Orleans."235
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9. Felipe Alvahuete, a secretary and aide of the late Leon Trotsky

and a leader of the Fourth Internationale, accused the Communist
Party of complicity in the Kennedy assassination a few days after
the murder.236
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Date:
From:
To:
Murret testimony
Monday, January 29, 2001 2:44:05 P M
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Mr. JENNER. What did he tell you on that occasion'?

Mr. M U R R E T . What did he tell m e ?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; didn't you help him put some stuff in your garage? Didn't
you go to the bus station and get his luggage and things and bring them to
the house?
Mr. M U R R E T . Did I help him?
'
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mr. MURRET. I don't remember that. I don't remember helping him with
any luggage, not that day?
Mr. JENNER. The next day?
Mr. M U R R E T . No; I don't believe it was even that next day. It was a couple
of days afterward.
Mr. J E N N E R . All right; it is your recollection that it was a couple of days
later, is that right?
Mr. M U R R E T . Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you take him with you to pick up his luggage at the bus
station?
Mr. M U R R E T . No; I don't remember that.
Mr. JENNER. You don't remember that?
Mr. M U R R E T . No; I don't.
Mr. JENNER. Are you sure now?
Mr. M U R R E T . I don't remember.
Mr. JENNER. Would it be possible that you did that, but you just don't
remember it?
Mr. M U R R E T . You mean gone to the bus station with him?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; and picked up his luggage for him, and perhaps you don't
recall it at this time?
Mr. M U R R E T . I might have. I just don't remember.
Mr. J E N N E R . Now, tell m e what you recall his luggage consisted of at that
time?
Mr. MURRET. Well, I'll tell you; it might have been a duffelbag, or
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something; I'm not sure of that. I don't remember what all it was
Mr JENNER. Did he have a Marine duffelbag, like soldiers usethat sort
of thing?
Mr. M U R R E T . Well, it was a bag; I guess it was a duffelbag
Mr. JENNER. Did it have a name on it?
Mr. M U R R E T . I didn't see any.
Mr. JENNER. Do you remember going in your car to the bus station to get
his luggage?
Mr. M U R R E T . Yes; I remember doing that.
Mr. JENNER. And you drove?
Mr. M U R R E T . Yes; I drove.
Mr. JENNER. Could Lee drive a car, to your knowledge?
Mr. M U R R E T . Not to my knowledge.
Mr. JENNER. Did he ever drive a car, to your knowledge?
Mr. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever see him driving an automobile?
Mr. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. H o w many duffelbags were there?
Mr. M U R R E T . I think there were two of them.
Mr. JENNER. What else did he have?
Mr. M U R R E T . That's all that I know of.
Mr. JENNER. Did he have any cardboard boxes?
Mr. M U R R E T . Not that I know of.
Mr. JENNER. Did he have any suitcases?
Mr. M U R R E T . Not that I saw; I don't think he had any suitcases.
Mr. JENNER. Well, you put this luggage in your car, didn't you?
Mr. M U R R E T . No; I didn't.
Mr. JENNER. Did he do that?
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Mr. MURRET. Yes; he put them in my car.
Mr. JENNER. Did you see him doing that?
Mr. M U R R E T . Yes; I saw him.
Mr. JENNER. Did you stay close to the locker in which this luggage was
contained?
Mr. M U R R E T . No; I don't believe I did. I sat at the wheel of the car. I asked
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him if he wanted a lift, but he said no, but I know he had two duffelbags at
least. I sat at the wheel of the car, to m y knowledge.
Mr. JENNER. All right; you reached home, right?
Mr. JENNER. W a s the car unpacked then?
Mr. M U R R E T . Yes; by Lee.
Mr. JENNER. Lee did the unpacking?
Mr. MURRET. Yes; he didn't want any help, so I didn't help him.
Mr. JENNER. What was your impression of Lee then, after he had appeared
at your house after all those years?
Mr. M U R R E T . Well, I don't know, but I just couldn't warm up to him, but he
said he wanted to find a job and get an apartment and then send for his
wife in Texas, so I wasn't going to stand in his way.
Mr. JENNER. Did he get an apartment?
Mr. JENNER. Where was that?
Mr. M U R R E T . Oh, that was out on Magazine Street, but as far as the number
is concerned, I don't know it.
Mr. J E N N E R Do you remember Lee's wife?
Mr. JENNER. Marina?
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From W C Vol. 8:
TESTIMONY O F MARILYN D O R O T H E A M U R R E T
The testimony of Marilyn Dorothea Murret was taken on April 6, 1964, at
the Old Civil Courts Building, Royal and Conti Streets, N e w Orleans, La'.,
by Mr. Wesley J. Liebeler, assistant counsel of the President's
Commission.
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Marilyn Dorothea Murret, a witness, having been duly sworn by Mr. Wesley
J. Liebeler to testify the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth, so help her God, testified as follows:
Mr. LIEBELER. M y n a m e is Wesley J. Liebeler. I a m a member of the legal
staff of the President's Commission investigating the assassination of
President Kennedy. The Commission has authorized staff members to take
the
testimony of witnesses pursuant to authority granted to it by Executive
Order 11130, dated November 29, 1963, and Joint Resolution of Congress
number 137.
I understand Mr. Rankin wrote you last week and told you that I would be
in touch with you concerning the taking of your testimony, and I
understand that he enclosed with his letter a copy of the Executive order
to which I have just referred, as well as the copy of the Joint Resolution
of Congress, and the rules of procedure adopted by the Commission
governing the taking of testimony of witnesses, is~iFat correct?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER. You are technically entitled to 3-days' notice of this
hearing under the Commission's rules. As I understand it, the Secret
Service contacted you on Friday of last woek. This m a y not actually be
3-days' notice, but you have the right to waive that notice. I presume
that you are willing to do so, since you are here and willing to testify?
Mr. LIEBELER The general nature of the Commission's inquiry is to
ascertain, evaluate, and report upon the facts relating to the
assassination of President Kennedy and to the subsequent death of Lee
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Harvey Oswald. W e want to inquire of you as to any knowledge that you

may
have of the background of Lee Harvey Oswald, and as to any knowledge that
you may have of his activities while he was here in N e w Orleans durinq
the
spring and summer of 1963.
Mr. LIEBELER. Before w e get into the details of your knowledge on those
questions, would you please state your full name for the record?
Miss M U R R E T . Marilyn Dorothea Murret.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where do you live?
Miss M U R R E T . 757 French.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where were you born, Miss Murret?
Miss M U R R E T . N e w Orleans.
Mr. LIEBELER. Have you lived all of your life here in N e w Orleans?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, except for the time I traveled and I lived 2 years in
St. Louis.
Mr. LIEBELER. Well, would you give us a brief run-down of your
educational background.
Miss M U R R E T . Well, from elementary on?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes.
Miss M U R R E T . I went to John Dibert Elementary School, and John
McDonogh
High School.
Mr. LIEBELER. Those are both located here in the city of N e w Orleans?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes, sir; and Loyola University, and L.S.U. at Baton Rouge,
and Tulane, and a summer at Duke, and University of California, the
Sorbonne, and University of Madrid, and St. Louis University-
Mr. LIEBELER. What degrees do you hold from these schools which you
have
mentioned?
Miss M U R R E T . I just have a B.A., and the others were educational
courses-instead of going to one school, I just went to various ones.
Mr. LIEBELER. What school gave you your B.A.?
Miss M U R R E T . Tulane.
Mr. LIEBELER. Tulane University?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. I understand that you are a teacher. Is that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. Are you presently teaching?
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Mr. LIEBELER. Where?
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Miss MURRET. Fortier?
Mr. LIEBELER. Where is that?
Miss M U R R E T . Fortier.
Mr. LIEBELER. Have you taught at the Junior University of N e w Orleans?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; unfortunately.
Mr. LIEBELER. W h e n did teach there?
Miss M U R R E T . September through December, but he didn't pay us-he paid
the first check, but he is out of business at the moment, and he didn't pa
y the last two. But he recently paid m e for the November check, and he
still owes m e for December.
Mr. LIEBELER. This is the person who is running the Junior University of
N e w Orleans?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; it is closed down now, but he still has the one across
the river. He had two, one on this side, a n d
Mr. LIEBELER. Two so-called universities?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes, sir. But the one on it St. Charles is closed, and the
one across the river is still operating.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you taught at the o n e Miss M U R R E T . Across the river. W e didn't get paid so w e Mr. LIEBELER. If I understand, the one you taught at is still operating,
but they haven't paid you your salary, so you quit and started teaching at
Fortier?
Mr. LIEBELER. W h o are your parents?
Miss M U R R E T . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Murret.
Mr. LIEBELER. Your father is also known as Dutz Murret?
Mr. LIEBELER. What is your father's occupation?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, steamship clerk-l don't know whether it comes
under
the jurisdiction of, whether it is under the Mississippi Shipping, or how
they operate, actually.
Mr. LIEBELER. You don't know the name of the company for which he
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works?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't know if it is justthe way it is, if there is no
business on one wharf, they call him on another. I just don't know how
that works.
Mr. LIEBELER. And your mother's name i s
Miss M U R R E T . Lillian Murret, maiden name Claverie.
Mr. LIEBELER. Your mother is the sister of Marguerite Claverie, is she
not
Mr. LIEBELER. W h o is the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mr. LIEBELER. Are you familiar with your mother's family? Does she have
other brothers and sisters?
Miss M U R R E T . They are all-most of them are dead. Her brothers all died
when they were quite young, I believe during World War I, and when her
mother died, she was about 33 years old. Her father died when I was very
young, and I don't remember him at all.
Mr. LIEBELER. Your mother's father died when you were a young girl?
Miss M U R R E T . That is right, and her mother died when she was 33.
Mr. LIEBELER. You mean w h e n
Miss M U R R E T . W h e n her mother was 33.
Mr. LIEBELER. W h e n her mother was 33?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; I think the eldest child isI just don't have any
idea.
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w many brothers and sisters did your mother have?
Miss M U R R E T . Three sisters, I think, and two brothers.
Mr. LIEBELER. And one of these sisters would have been Mrs. Oswald; is
that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. So altogether in the family there would have been four
girls and two boys?
Mr. LIEBELER. Your mother's three sisters and the t w o Miss M U R R E T . Yes.
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Mr. LIEBELER. All of these three sisters, except for Mrs. Oswald, and
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both of the two brothers are deceased, is that correct?

Miss M U R R E T . One other sister is still living, and the rest are all dead.
Mr. LIEBELER. What is the other sister's name?
Miss M U R R E T . Mancy.
Mr. LIEBELER. Is that her last name?
Miss M U R R E T . That is her first name, and I can hardly remember the last
name.
Mr. LIEBELER. You don't know her last name?
Miss M U R R E T . I do, but I can't remember it. It will come to m e in a
moment. She lives in Frankfort. She goes from one daughter to the other
daughter because her husband is dead.
Mr. LIEBELER. So she lives inMiss M U R R E T . From Kentucky and Tennessee, from Kentucky to Tennessee
she
goes.
Mr. LIEBELER. So she lives in Frankfort, Ky, and at times she goes over
to Tennessee and lives with her children? H o w many children does she
have?
Miss M U R R E T . Three no, four. That is Winfry, is her name.
Mr. LIEBELER. What is the name of the other of your mother's sisters?
Miss M U R R E T . It was Marguerite, Mancy, my mother, and Pearl was the
other
one.
Mr. LIEBELER. Pearl, who is deceased?
Mr. LIEBELER. Has she children living?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; two.
Mr. LIEBELER. What is Pearl's last name?
Miss M U R R E T . Whittaker. But he is dead also, the husband.
Mr. LIEBELER. Were her children boys or girls?
Miss M U R R E T . Two boys.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know where they live now?
Miss M U R R E T . Emile Whittaker lives in Jefferson Parish somewhere, but I
don't remember the street, and Jack Whittaker, I don't know where he
lives.
Mr. LIEBELER. What was the second one?
Miss M U R R E T . That one was Jack-she had two boys.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where does Jack live? Do you know, offhand?
Miss M U R R E T . No.
Mr. LIEBELER. The first boy's name was Emile?
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Mr. LIEBELER. Going back now to Mancy Winfry, you said she had four
children?
Mr. LIEBELER. Are they boys and girls?
Miss M U R R E T Three girls and one boy.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know their names and where they are living?
Miss M U R R E T . Andrew Winfry is the boy, and he goes to school, but I a m
not sure whether it is in Tennessee or Kentucky.
Mr. LIEBELER. You would think in Tennessee somewhere?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; or maybe the university-might be Kentucky. I don't
know.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know the names of the three girls and where they
live?
Miss M U R R E T . Anne is one, and I think that she lives in Frankfort, and
Nanny, but I don't know if that is her real name, and that probably is
just a nickname, and then Jackie.
Mr. LIEBELER. And Jackie?
Mr. LIEBELER. Where do Nanny and Jackie live? Do you know?
Miss M U R R E T . Either in Tennessee or Kentucky. Anne livesI don't know,
either in Tennessee or Kentucky also. But, anyway, two of the daughters '
live in the same State, and one in the other.
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w many brothers and sisters do you have?
Miss M U R R E T . Three brothers and one sister.
Mr. LIEBELER. Three brothers and one sister?
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Mr. LIEBELER. What are your brothers' names?
Miss M U R R E T . Charles, Eugene, John; and my sister is Joyce.
Mr. LIEBELER. Is your sister Joyce older than you?
Mr. LIEBELER. She is older?
Mr. LIEBELER. As I understand it, Charles Murret is a dentist here in the
city of N e w Orleans? Is that correct?
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Miss MURRET. Yes.

Mr. LIEBELER. Eugene Murret is studying at the Catholic seminary?
Mr. LIEBELER. The seminary is in Mobile, Ala.?
Mr. LIEBELER. John Murret does what?
Miss M U R R E T . He works for the Squibbs Pharmaceutical Co.
Mr. LIEBELER. Here in New Orleans?
Miss M U R R E T . New Orleans.
Mr. LIEBELER. Is Joyce married?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. What is her last name?
Miss M U R R E T . O'Brien.
Mr. LIEBELER. And she lives in New Orleans?
Miss M U R R E T . No; in Beaumont, Tex.
Mr. LIEBELER. Now w e will have the two brothers of your mother, and
their
names were what?
Miss M U R R E T . One was John.
Mr. LIEBELER John?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. And the other?
Miss M U R R E T . I think Charles. I didn't know them.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do they have children living of which you know?
Miss M U R R E T . No; they died when they were very young-1918 and 1919,
during World War I.
Mr. LIEBELER. They do not have any children surviving them?
Miss M U R R E T . No; there were none.
Mr. LIEBELER. As I understand it, your mother's sister, Marguerite, has
three sons?
Miss M U R R E T . Right.
Mr. LIEBELER. Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Oswald, and John Pic?
Mr. LIEBELER. What contact have you had personally with Marguerite
Oswald
over the years?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, when I was younger, she and mother were always on
the
outs. I remember her then, and then she would move away and come back
and
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occasionally she would stay with us. The last time she moved back to N e w
Orleans was when she lived on-she would stay 1 or 2 days or s o
Mr. LIEBELER. And this last time was when?
Miss M U R R E T . She had been away, and then I hadn't see her, but when she
was on Exchange Alley, I think she visited one day. But when they were on
Exchange, living on Exchange Alley, of course, I used to see her
occasionally. I mean when she would come over and visit, but then she
moved to Texas, and I hadn't seen her for ages.
Mr. LIEBELER. So then you haven't seen her since she lived here in N e w
Orleans on Exchange Alley, is that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember approximately when it was that she lived
on
Exchange Alley?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't really remember.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember the address where she lived on Exchanae
Alley?
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Miss MURRET. No, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any recollection of where Mrs. Oswald had been
prior to the time that she moved back to N e w Orleans and lived on
Exchange
Alley?
Miss M U R R E T . I think they were in Texas, but I don't think w e heard from
them when she was somewhere else.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any occasion to meet Lee~Harvey Oswald when
you saw Marguerite, during the time that she lived on Exchange Alley?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, then he was going to Beauregard, so I would see him
occasionally.
Mr. LIEBELER. W a s that Beauregard Junior High School?
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you remember generally on what occasions you would
meet
Lee Harvey Oswald?
Miss M U R R E T . He came over to the house several times to eat, but I don't
think he was over very much.
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Mr. LIEBELER. About how old was he then? Do you remember?

Miss M U R R E T . I don't know-at that time I guess he would be getting out
of high school-well, then, you would be getting out of high school when
you were about 16, so he might have been around-l don't really know,
because I think he was 17 when he got in the service, and it wasn't long
after that, so he might have been about 15.
Mr. LIEBELER. Fifteen?
Mr. LIEBELER. I did not ask you when you were born, and will you tell us?
Miss M U R R E T . July 14, 1928.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you form any impression of Lee Oswald during the time
that you saw him, when his mother lived on Exchange Alley?
Miss M U R R E T . H e was just like anybody else, I guess, but he w a s very
reserved. H e w a s always very reserved, and he liked to be by himself. His
reason for that w a s always that he didn't have the s a m e interests with
the
other children. I mean, he liked to read, and he loved nature, and he
would just go and sit out in the park and meditate, I guess. I don't know.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you talk to him about these things, or how did you
learn that he had this liking for nature and would sit in the park?
Miss M U R R E T . I remember it at that time, because he had gotten into a
fight with children at Beauregard; however, this is what m y mother told
me, and I don't remember this, and, anyway, it seems that he w a s from the
North, and so they ridiculed him at the school. I don't know if it was
because of the way he w a s dressed or not, but I actually didn't see
anything wrong with his appearance, and so, he w a s riding in the streetcar
one day, I believe, and he sat next to s o m e Negroes. Well, when he got out
of the streetcar, or bus, or whatever it was, these boys ganged up on him,
and hit him in the mouth, and loosened his front teeth, I believe. But
this I only know from m y mother.
Well, it w a s after that, and then another time, and I don't know if they
were teasing him and they said, "Oh, Lee-" and when he turned around,
they hit him. It w a s just actually that even though he w a s in fights, I
think that it wasn't always his fault because I don't think he w a s an
agitator in any way, because he really minded his own business. That much
I know, but the incidents I only know from what m y mother said. So, at
that time I think he m a d e the statement also, that it wasn't his fault,
that he w a s minding his o w n business and "I don't have the s a m e interests
as the other students." They didn't like him because of his accent, and
because he sat next to the Negroes, which w a s one incident. But he w a s
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extremely quiet.
Mr. LIEBELER. W a s it in connection with the discussion of these various
difficulties that he had, that you learned that he used to just go to the
park and sit in the park and observe nature, and w a s fond of it,
interested in that sort of thing?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't think he told m e that-my mother must have told m e
that, because this c a m e up when they told m e this, when that boy, or that
is, when s o m e of the students from Beauregard were on T V and said that
he
was always in fights, and it was then that m y mother said, actually, I
mean, that
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she didn't think it was his fault, because she remembered those particular
incidents.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you and your mother have had discussions about this
after the assassination?
Mr. LIEBELER. And the occasion for that discussion w a s that s o m e of his
former
Miss M U R R E T . H e might have told m e that he didn't have anything in
common
with the other students-l don't remember this. This was a long time ago,
and she always had said that, but I m a y have said that before also. I just '
don't remember. I know it was this time when she told m e that that w a s
the
reason for not associating with, the other students, and that they m a d e
fun of him.
Mr. LIEBELER. And this discussion c a m e up when these former students
from
Beauregard c a m e on the program, or on the air at this T V station and said
that Lee Harvey Oswald had always been involved in fights when he was a
young man, and the purport of that was that he w a s belligerent and
difficult to get along with, and this is something that you might expect
from a fellow like that, but your mother did not have that opinion?
Miss M U R R E T . And from what I know-it is a long time agobut he w a s
very quiet, and I know he didn't have many friends, I don't think, but he
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was not the belligerent type. H e just minded his own business, and of
course, if he committed this act, I guess it w a s a perverted mind-l don't
know-but he had a certain manner about him that other children never
had.
I m e a n he w a s very refined he really was, and extremely well mannered. I
mean he w a s not an agitator to where you would say that any trouble
started with him-l don't know. I mean from what I know, he never was.
Mr. LIEBELER. D o you remember that Lee gave this impression back during
the days that you knew him? Do you have any firsthand knowledge of that
difference between him and the other boys as far as refinement and being
well mannered?
Miss M U R R E T . As far as manners, yes. Definitely. And I mean with some
people that would irritate them-that would irritate many people, I
suppose. I don't know, but that I do remember. And, as I said, he was very
quiet, so he never talked, and it was very seldom, but he always had this
manner, except that when he w a s a very young child he was very-he w a s
darling, and very outgoing, and a very pretty child. He was adorable, and
I m e a n if you walked in the street with him, everybody would stop because
he lived with us until he w a s two, or a little over two, but if m y mother
took him to Canal Street, everybody stopped to admire him. H e was a very
pretty child, and very happy, very cute.
But, at Beauregard, I don't think there w a s anything different about him
and the others, other than he w a s not-well, other than, as I was saying,
he would have this very erect carriage at that time also, and, well, his
manner w a s just different from those people, or from most of those
students, I should say.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you think of any other ways in which Lee differed from
his associates or fellow students at that time?
Miss M U R R E T . No; at that time I don't think because well, I think he
wanted to play ball, or other things, but he didn't have the money-it
could have been other things. I just don't know. I mean he wanted to play
ball, and he didn't have the money to buy the equipment, and this is a
long time ago, I a m telling you, and I can't remember whether m y brothers
or somebody gave him some equipment, and he was very appreciative, very
thankful, you know. And I mean I guess he couldn't do what the other '
children did, because he couldn't afford it. I mean he w a s interested in
sports at that time, and he did like others, but I mean he w a s more
reserved than the average person; but he wasn't-l guess he was
interested
in s o m e of the s a m e things like that, but I mean he wasn't a giddy child,
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is what I mean.
Mr. LIEBELER. You mentioned this television program in which these
former
fellow students of his at Beauregard indicated that he had been involved
in fights when he was at Beauregard. Do you remember what station that
program was on?
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Miss MURRET. WDSU, I think, and the characters came on over and
photographed m y house and went all over the neighborhood, asking the
neighbors what type of people w e were, and what type of person m y
mother
was. And, of course, m y mother is a real good woman, so everybody had
something nice to say. But it could just have been the other way around.
It was absurd, and they pulled everything out, all that the people had
said, and they quoted it. It was very, you k n o w Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember the name of any of the students?
Miss M U R R E T . Voebel, Ed Voebel, and he wears glasses, and I think he said
that he was friendly with Lee at the time.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you think of any others?
Miss M U R R E T . Any other people?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes; that were on the television program?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, other groups of students, some girls, and a group of
girls said that he was belligerent, you know, or that they didn't like the
way he dressed, and all this nonsense. But he was the only one who spoke
in any detail, and I think he was the only one who was very friendly and
got him to join the Civil Air Patrol, in whicrfhe was~very interested.
Mr. LIEBELER. W a s this just a news program, or was it a feature program
run by a particular reporter or commentator?
Miss M U R R E T . A reporter.
Mr. LIEBELER. I beg your pardon?
Miss M U R R E T . Probably just a reporter had called these people in.
Mr. LIEBELER. But you don't remember the names of any of the men at
WDSU
that might be familiar with this that were on the program when these
people were interviewed by someone, presumably?
Miss M U R R E T . M y mother knows the names of the men, or the man, I
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believe,
because he wrote this letter and wanted s o m e detailed information.
Mr. LIEBELER. The reporter talked to you personally?
Miss M U R R E T The first time my father talked, and they get you off guard,
of course, and I don't know what he told them. They asked him if he had
stayed at m y house, and my father at that time stated that he had, and
that was all he said, and after that they c a m e in and they wanted'to take
pictures and everything else. I asked them to leave, which they did, but
for days after they were always coming around, and, of course, w e had no
comments. The one from W D S U got very irate, so he went up and down the
block and interviewed the entire neighborhood, and it was about a half an
hour show, around 7 o'clock or so, and had all the comments by the
neighbors.
Mr. LIEBELER Did any of the neighbors remember Lee Oswald?
Miss M U R R E T . The girl next door probably did because he had stayed there
a few days when he came in.
Mr. LIEBELER. H e stayed at your house a few days? This was in 1963?
Mr. LIEBELER. You mentioned that Lee had stayed with you when he was a
young boy until the time that he was about 2 years old. You were about 11
or 12 years old at that time?
Miss M U R R E T . Just about.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any recollection of Lee as a young child other
than what you have already indicated to us that he was a very pretty
child, and that he was adorable
Miss M U R R E T . He was adorable, and his personality, he was just-well, he
was very bright, you know, very observant, and he was just a darlinq
child.
Mr. LIEBELER. And he gave no indication of any behavior problems?
Miss M U R R E T . No; he was darling"
Mr. LIEBELER. There wasn't anything apparently wrong with him at all?
Miss M U R R E T . And very pleasant, you know, not the type of child who if he
didn't get his way would start screaming- never any of that. He was just
a very pleasant child.
Mr. LIEBELER. What were the circumstances that led to Lee's living with
you at that time? Do you know?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, I think the mother had to work and w e kept him.
Mr. LIEBELER. His father had died shortly, or, actually before he was
born?
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Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember where Lee's mother worked durinq that
time?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't know-she worked for several department stores,
and
in a hosiery shop that she was managing, and I don't know if it was Jean's
Hosiery Shop.
Mr. LIEBELER. So it was hosiery shops or department stores?
Mr. LIEBELER. Well, then Lee left your house. Where did he go after that?
Do you know?
Miss M U R R E T . I think that is when he went to Texas. I am not sure if that
is when she married Ekdahl, or if she married Ekdahl later.
Mr. LIEBELER. Or what?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, she married Ekdahl when he was very young.
Mr. LIEBELER. When Lee was very young?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you recall whether or not Lee was ever in an orphanage,
an orphan home here in N e w Orleans?
Miss M U R R E T . I know the other two boys were, and w e were trying to
figure
out whether he was.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you are not sure whether he ever was or not?
Miss M U R R E T . No; I a m not.
Mr. LIEBELER. But up until the time that Lee left you and went back
either to his mother or to Texas, or wherever he went, your recollection
is perfectly clear that Lee was a normal, happy, bright young boy? Is that
correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. You mentioned this man Ekdahl, and can you tell us the
background on that, and you were probably around 13, 12 or 13 years old,
or perhaps even a little older, when Mrs. Oswald married Mr. Ekdahl; is
that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember ever having met Mr. Ekdahl?
Miss M U R R E T . I met him once.
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Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know the correct spelling of his name?

Mr. LIEBELER. What were the circumstances surrounding the meetinq with
Mr. Ekdahl?
Miss M U R R E T . M y circumstances?
Mr. LIEBELER. No; the circumstances?
Miss M U R R E T . He just stopped over there one day, and I think he and my
aunt had John Edward and Robert with him, and they were going to
military
school.
Mr. LIEBELER. W a s this after they were married?
Miss M U R R E T . It might have been before-l don't know whether she got
married here, or she met him in Texas. I don't really know that. I do know
that I saw him on one occasion, and at the time she had the two boys-he
had the two boys with him, John and Robert, because, if I remember, they
were in uniform. I met him on the one occasion, and if I can remember,
they had the two boys with them, and they were both in uniform.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever hear of the circumstances under which Mrs.
Oswald married Ekdahl, or met him? What do you know about this
relationship?
Miss M U R R E T . Just nothing other than what m y mother has said, that
actually she didn't want to get married because he was an older man, and I
think he was sick, or something, and it was his sister who said, "Well,
why don't you marry him?" So, they got married. I think she was quite'
hesitant about it, actually.
Mr. LIEBELER. Before Mrs. Oswald married Lee Harvey Oswald's father, she
was married to a m a n named Pic, is that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. Have you ever met him?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know anything about that marriage?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, that again, only from what my mother has said, that
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he did not want any children, and father and she found that very difficult
to believe, so they thought that maybe it was just Marguerite saying that.
And she loved him, and then when she got pregnant, or, she got pregnant
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once and lost the baby, and he had threatened to leave if she got
pregnant.
So, after she lost the baby, he wanted her to go back to him, which she
did. But when she got pregnant with John, he didn't-he said that he would
leave before that, if she got pregnant, or something, so, anyway, he
talked to m y mother and m y mother found out definitely that that w a s
true.
And he definitely did not want any children.
So when she got pregnant with John, she left because he didn't want her
to have the baby, or he didn't want her to ever to get pregnant, so she
left, or he left. H e left her, or she left himit might be the other way,
but, anyway, he didn't want any children, and he had always threatened
that if she got pregnant, he would leave. But I think that when she got
pregnant with John, she was probably carrying him, so she left, or maybe
he said he w a s leaving-l just don't know. Anyway, that w a s mostly what
my
mother said, she couldn't conceive of any m a n being like that, but it w a s
definitely true, because either she had talked to him o r
Mr. LIEBELER. Either your mother talked to Pic, or, in any event, your
mother learned that apparently it w a s true that Mr. Pic didn't want to
have any children?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know whether Mrs. Oswald, that is, Marguerite, met
Mr. Oswald before she w a s divorced from Pic or separated from Pic, or
afterwards?
Miss M U R R E T . Mr. Oswald?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes?
Miss M U R R E T . It w a s a long time after that they were married.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever meet or know Lee Harvey Oswald's father?
Miss M U R R E T . I saw him.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any recollection of him, what he w a s like?
Miss M U R R E T . No; just as a person, you know, and I saw a picture later,
and I could visualize him perfectly. I w a s very young then.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any other recollections of Lee Oswald as a
young m a n that you can recall that you think would be helpful at this
time, specifically after he left your h o m e at the age of two? W a s the next
time you saw him when he moved back and moved over into Exchanqe
Alley?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he seem to be the kind of person then that you would
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have expected him to be, based on your recollection of him as a 2-year

old? Or did he seem different? Just tell us what impression did you have
when you met him again?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't think I really compared him to the time when he w a s
a child, but he w a s a little different, as I said, from other children in
that he w a s more reserved than the average teenager.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you think that he was a sensitive person?
Miss M U R R E T . No. What I actually thought was that he, I mean he just had
certain interests and I mean because he had been reared like that, and
probably-l think is what m y mother said, and I don't know, but m y aunt
had no altemative-l mean they probably did the wrong thing by havinq
him
stay by himself, but, in other words, under the circumstances they thought
that that would be better than getting into trouble with other people, and
maybe it just worked the other way around. But she trained him to be by
himself, because she had to work, and so she thought it would be better to
have him stay h o m e and listen to the radio and television and read, rather
than to get in with other boys and do things they shouldn't do, with'no
intention ofI a m saying if he did this-of warping his mind.' But it just
happened to turn out that way, but she thought she was doing the right
thing, and he would never talk to any strangers, or anything. H e w a s just
reared like that.
Mr. LIEBELER. The last time you saw Marguerite, I think you testified
this w a s during the time that she lived here in N e w Orleans on Exchange
Alley, before she went to Texas?
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Mr. LIEBELER. Did you form an impression of her?
Miss M U R R E T . W h o ? Marguerite?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes.
Miss M U R R E T . W h e n she c a m e back you mean?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes; at any time, just what your general impression and
feeling about Marguerite Oswald was?
Miss M U R R E T . I think she is a w o m a n of very good character, but she had a
very curt tongue, and she doesn't forget very easily. I mean if you have
an argument with her, I don't think she forgets it immediately. But she
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also, I guess, and it is probably her reason for that, and I mean, if she
worked, she had to work in these department stores, and she was not a
gossipy type of woman, and I don't know but I worked a few summers in a
department store, and I know that for these sales how theyI mean they
will slit one another's throats.
Mr. LIEBELER The sales clerks?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes. I think that the employees were arguing-she didn't
engage in petty gossip as other employees and probably got in arguments
over that, you know, and she was a little quick-tongued.
Mr. LIEBELER. But other than that you have n o Miss M U R R E T . Other than that she was nice in her own way, you know.
Mr. LIEBELER. There was a time in the spring of 1963 when Lee Oswald
came
to N e w Orleans, isn't that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. Tell us what you know about that?
Miss M U R R E T . W h e n he came in the last time, you mean?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes. That was the next time that you saw Lee Oswald after
he and his mother left the Exchange Alley address and went to Texas, isn't
that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. Tell us what happened in connection with his coming to N e w
Orleans?
Miss M U R R E T . He telephoned m y mother, I think from the bus station. Of
course, w e didn't even know that he was back, and so he asked if he could
stay there a while until he got a job, and he told my mother that he was
married, and that he had a baby.
So, m y mother asked him if he was alone, because if he had a family she
wouldn't have been able to accommodate him^But he was by himself, so
she
said O.K. He stayed there a while until he found a place on Magazine
Street. And then the wife and this lady from Texas came down, and they
moved into the place on Magazine Street.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you live with your mother?
Mr. LIEBELER. Were you at home during the time that Oswald Lived there
during that period?
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w long was he there?
Miss M U R R E T . I a m not sure whether it was a week or a little over a
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week.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any conversations with him during that time?
Miss M U R R E T . During the day he was usually looking for a job, and I was
working. And in the evening maybe w e would talk a little, but nothing in
particular. I was usually working on lesson plans, and he went to work
about 8:30 or 9 o'clock, and the only discussions that I really had was on
religion.
Mr. LIEBELER. W a s that during this week?
Miss M U R R E T . I beg your pardon?
Mr. LIEBELER. W a s that at the time?
Mr. LIEBELER. What did he say about that, and what did you say?
Miss M U R R E T . He just listened.
Mr. LIEBELER. What did you say?
Miss M U R R E T . And then he just said or I assumed that he was an atheist
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Mr. LIEBELER. Anyway, he knew of your brother in the seminary?
Miss M U R R E T . Actually, he was more concerned about that, I guess, and so
I just said this, this religious discussion. I just set this off because
he was not interested at all, and so he just listened and he said that he
had his own philosophy, and that he was an atheist. But he didn't argue,
or anything, and he just let m e rave on for about an hour.
Mr. LIEBELER. You are a Cathottcrts that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. A practicing Catholic?
Mr. LIEBELER. And you expressed that to Oswald?
Mr. LIEBELER. As best as you can recall, all he did was listen and then
he indicated that he had his own way?
Miss M U R R E T . Which he didn't express.
Mr. LIEBELER. But he did tell you that he was an atheist?
Mr. LIEBELER. H e didn't go into any further details than that?
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Mr. LIEBELER. Did you get any feeling about him when you had this
discussion with him? I mean, did it seem kind of strange to you that
someone would just sit and let you go on at such length on a subject like
that, and then not really respond to it?
Miss M U R R E T . That was typical of Lee.
Mr. LIEBELER. Typical of Lee?
Mr. LIEBELER. He didn't express any disgust or short temperedness with
your
Miss M U R R E T . No. Oh, no.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember any other discussions or confrontations
that you might have had?
Miss M U R R E T . That was the only time that I had had any chance to talk
with him, and that was the first day that he came-believe it was. After
that, on Saturdays, or that particular Saturday he was out all day looking
around for a job. And then on that Sunday he wanted to know where his
father was buried, and he wanted to locate some of his relatives, because
he had said that when Marina's family had asked him about his family, he
didn't know anything at all, he didn't know what descent he was, and he
said he realized, or he missed not being close to his relatives, because
he didn't know any of them other than us.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he ask you about this orMiss M U R R E T . M y mother.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you were there at the time?
Mr. LIEBELER. What did your mother tell him?
Miss M U R R E T . M y mother checked the telephone directory, and I think
most
were dead. Harvey Oswald, who was his godfather, I believe, is dead. He
did find one relative and he went to see her.
Mr. LIEBELER. What was her name?
Miss. M U R R E T . I don't know, but that might have been his wife. My mother
would know.
Mr. LIEBELER. W h o s e wife? Harvey Oswald's?
Miss M U R R E T . They were very old. That was his father's brother, but they
are all dead. But it might be one of the wives who is still living, and he
went out there to see her, and she gave him a picture of his father. And
then he went to visit the grave.
Mr. LIEBELER. Of his father?
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Mr. LIEBELER. Did he talk to you about that at all?

Mr. LIEBELER. What happened to the picture? Do you know?
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Miss MURRET. I think he might have told my mother about it, and I think
he might have told me, but I was there that Sunday and he caught the bus
and went to the other house, and this old lady gave him the picture of his
father. And he just showed it, and that was all.
Mr. LIEBELER. W a s it a large picture o r
Mr. LIEBELER. And did he take it with him when he left, when he moved
over to the apartment on Magazine Street?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes. I guess s o
Mr. LIEBELER. You haven't seen it around the house since?
Mr. LIEBELER. You mentioned something about when he caught the bus and
went to the other aunt?
Miss M U R R E T . You say to the aunt?
Mr. LIEBELER. To this aunt who gave him the picture?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, I mean he left and I know he caught the bus.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he seem concerned about his ability to find a job?
Miss M U R R E T . He wanted to find a job so Marina could come down here. I
know he was lookingI mean he seemed like he really wanted to find one.
And when he found it, he seemed to be very happy about it.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell youMiss M U R R E T . I mean the one at the Reily Coffee Co7~
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you why he came to N e w Orleans to look for a
job?
Miss M U R R E T . He had said that Marina wanted to be near the sea, and she
thought she would like N e w Orleans. He didn't tell m e that; he told m y
mother.
Mr. LIEBELER. You knew at this time that he had been to the Soviet Union,
did you not?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you talk to him about his experiences in Russia?
Miss M U R R E T . I asked him how he liked it, and he showed m e a few
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photographs, m y mother and I, of where he lived. And that is when he said

about the family, that people were very family c o n s c i o u s Mr. LIEBELER. In Russia?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; I don't know-l think he was citing one experience
where he was traveling, or something, and there were some people who
had
less than he had, and invited him in, which they would probably do here,
but just never had occasion to, and they had very little, but what they
had they shared with him. That is when he said that he was very
embarrassed because when they asked him what descent he was, he said
he
didn't know, didn't know nothing at all about his family, and that is why
he was determined to locate his various relatives here.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ask him why he went to Russia in the first place?
Miss M U R R E T . No; I was away when he left, and I didn't even know he left
actually, and m y mother didn't tell m e anything, to worry m e , and I saw
his brother, John. And my sister had written m e a letter just before that
and said that Marguerite had not heard from Lee, and that she had sent
s o m e money and the envelope was returned. I didn't know where he had
gone,
and I guess they just assumed that I knew. M y mother didn't want to worry
m e probably, because all the scandal was brewing in all the papers, and
everything. I went to visit John, and his wife told m e at that time
Mr. LIEBELER. Where was John living at that time?
Miss M U R R E T . In Japan.
Mr. LIEBELER. You were in Japan at that time?
Mr. LIEBELER. What were you doing in Japan?
Miss M U R R E T . I taught school over there.
Mr. LIEBELER. In an English speaking school?~
Mr. LIEBELER. Did John tell you that Lee had gone to Russia?
Miss M U R R E T . H e didn't tell me-his wife told me. So I didn't bring the
subject
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up at all with John. I mean we weren't invading anybody's privacy at all,
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and if he wanted to say something, he would say. And I know that she said
that they were very upset because this put him over the barrel, and he has
a family, and he was very embarrassed.
Mr. LIEBELER. John was?
Miss M U R R E T . Of course, and they had three children, and I mean it was in
Stars and Stripes.
Mr. LIEBELER. John was in the Air Force at that time?
Mr. LIEBELER. You didn't bring the subject up of Lee at all as to why he
went?
Miss M U R R E T . No, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he indicate anything about his experiences in Russia
other than what you have already told us?
Miss M U R R E T . The only thing he said was-l just didn't know any of this
would happen, and I didn't know he would be leaving and I thought that he
would say what he wanted to say, because I don't believe in bombarding
somebody with questions, I really don't, and what they want to say, they
say, and what they don't want to say, they don't say. So, anyway, he said
that he had better quarters than the average person because he was an
American, and they wanted to create a good impression on him. Other than
about the family and showing m e a few photographs, that is all he said.
And he said that he had met Marina at this dance, and he worked in the
factory.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you what kind of factory?
Miss M U R R E T . No; he didn't.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you what he did?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you how much he was paid?
Miss M U R R E T . No; maybe he did, but I wouldn't know what it was, anyway.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you about any travels that he had in the Soviet
Union?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, just that he said, and I don't know where he was going
or where he was when he said it, that these people let him spend the night
there and that they had less than he had. So if that was on the outskirts,
or where it was, I don't really know.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you speak Russian?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you speak any foreign language?
Miss M U R R E T . I studied French and Spanish, but was hopeless.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you about any school that he might have gone to
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Miss M U R R E T . No sir; he didn't say anything at all about any kind of
training. W h e n he first c a m e out, I couldn't understand how he had gotten
out, in the first place.
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w he had gotten out of Russia to c o m e back, you m e a n ?
Miss M U R R E T . With a Russian wife, and he did say her father w a s w a s
he
a Russian officer? A n y w a y
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he say her fatherMiss M U R R E T . H e was, or she might have said that in her broken English,
so I couldn't conceive of how they had gotten out of Russia, and how he
had access to Russia, I mean to work there, et cetera, and then just to be
allowed to leave, with a Russian wife, and her father being in the Army.
And I think that she had an uncle-l don't know-but I think it w a s in the
papers, or in s o m e magazine recently that he is with the Intelligence
Service in Russia.
Mr. LIEBELER. Her uncle?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; he, supposedly, was the one w h o helped him to get out.
So, that I couldn't figure out.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ask him about it? Did you ask Lee about that?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; and he said he'd had a tough time. That is about the
only thing I did ask him, and he said he'd had a very difficult time
getting out, and he had to wait for a particular length of time until
everything went through, and he knew that since, or if he had not had a
wife, he could have gotten out sooner, but he had to wait on her papers,
and by that time they'd had
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a baby, but, anyway, I wasn't satisfied, but by that time I couldn't
understand how they got out. But, I said, well, if they let them out, they
went through the Embassy obviously, and if they were doing things he was
not supposed to do, they would be trailing him.
Mr. LIEBELER. You thought this?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, any time anybody comes out of Russia, you think it,
naturally.
Mr. LIEBELER. But you didn't say anything to Lee about it?
Miss M U R R E T . No; definitely not. I had just asked him if it w a s difficult
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to get out, and so then I said, well, if he were up to anything, you know,
they would obviously be trailing him, so w e could just forget about that
because he might really have realized that he m a d e a mistake, and he was
coming back over here. I mean, you don't try to antagonize him-l mean you
try to help him, and figure, thinking that if he realizes that he m a d e a
mistake and he wanted to c o m e back here, you would do everything you
could
to help him.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he indicate that he had been given trouble about
getting out of Russia by the Russians or by the Americans? Or did he
distinguish between them because he thought he had been harassed by the
two authorities?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't think he really said, but I don't remember that
he-l think, or I thought he meant the Russians, because the Americans
gave him the money, evidently they were willing to give it to him anytime.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where did you learn about the fact that the Americans had
given him the money? Did he tell you that?
Miss M U R R E T . H e told m y mother that.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you remember any more about it than just that he had
received money from the United States? Did he tell you any more details,
or did your mother repeat them to you?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, and then I read something about it.
Mr. LIEBELER. After the assassination?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; I think it was in Life, that he had renounced his
citizenship, but that the American Embassy said that he didn't, and that
that w a s why he got back here; or that if he had renounced it, he couldn't
have gotten back, so he was an alien. I don't know.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you know about this at all, or have any conversation
with Lee about it before the assassination?
Miss M U R R E T . About what?
Mr. LIEBELER. About this time that he renounced his citizenship and these
difficulties?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, they had articles in the papers that m y mother
showed
m e after I c a m e home, Fort Worth papers, that he threw the passport on
the
desk. But I didn't ask him about that at all.
Mr. LIEBELER. And he didn't tell you anything about it?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did it seem extraordinary to you that he had been able to
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to
return to the United States?
Miss M U R R E T . Extraordinary in the fact that I didn't know how he could
get out with a Russian wife and baby, whose uncle was in the military,
and
an uncle I don't know what he was at the time-but I thought he was
affiliated with the military, but I have read something since then that
the father was with the intelligence service. But then I didn't really
think too much that-well, your first reaction, but then you don't think
too much about that after because he had to go through the Embassy. So
you
figure that it was one of two things, he either really realized that he
wanted to live here again, or they let him out for a purpose. And if they
did, then they would certainly be trailing him.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did it occur to you that he might be an agent of the Soviet
Union?
Miss M U R R E T . At first; yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. You mean when you firstMiss M U R R E T . The first reaction.
Mr. LIEBELER. You mean when you firstMiss M U R R E T . Well, the fact that he got out.
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Mr. LIEBELER. But when you say "at first," you don't mean at first, after
the assassination? You mean at first, after you saw him?
Miss M U R R E T . After he came out.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you didn't really think about that too much until he
c a m e here in 1963, or had you considered it prior to that time?
Miss M U R R E T . W e didn't know he was out.
Mr. LIEBELER. Until he c a m e here?
Mr. LIEBELER. You didn't know he was back from Russia at all?
Miss M U R R E T . He just telephoned mother and m y mother said, "I didn't
even
know you were back." And he said, "I have been back forI don't
know-probably a year."
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any discussions with your mother or anybody
else in your family about the possibility that Oswald might be a Russian
agent?
Miss M U R R E T . As I said, I dispelled that immediately because I thought,
well, if he was, they would certainly be trailing him. So, I mean you
can't go around with suspicion like that, or, I mean certainly the
American Embassy should know what is going on. So, if that were the
case,
well, they would be on his trail. And, if not, well, he was definitely
sincere. I mean, you don't try to antagonize or constantly throw up past
mistakes, in case he, you k n o w Mr. LIEBELER. So you considered the question briefly and dismissed it for
the reasons you state?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; but just the first reaction would be, how did he aet
out?
Mr. LIEBELER. And, as you have stated, the reason for your thinking of
the question in the first place was because of the apparent ease with
which he w a s able to leave the Soviet Union with a Russian wife?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did it cause you any concern to associate with him or have
anything to do with him at all after you considered the question that he
might have been a Russian agent? I mean, you said that you dismissed it
because you assumed if he was, he was being trailed, or the authorities
would be in touch with him, but did it concern you that they might
associate you with Oswald, or identify you in any way?
Mr. LIEBELER. It did not?
Mr. LIEBELER. After the first week that Lee was at your home, he rented
an apartment and moved out? Is that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. Were you there when he left your house?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you he found an apartment?
Miss M U R R E T . He told m e about it.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he or did he not tell you personally?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't remember whether I was there or not. Yes- I think I
might have been. Yes; I was, because I think he c a m e h o m e and said that it
was a lovely place, but he didn't know whether Marina would like it
because it had high ceilings, and she didn't like high ceilings. But he
liked it.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Marina come out to your house at this time?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, when they came in, the lady from Texas brought herMr. LIEBELER. In a station wagon?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know her name?
Miss M U R R E T . I know now; yes. It was Paine.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you know her at that time?
Miss M U R R E T . No; he introduced me, I think, or she introduced herself-l
don't remember-because I was getting ready to go out and that was when
was in and out, getting dressed. But he also had referred to her just as
Marina's friend in Texas, and I told her it was very nice to meet her.
Mr. LIEBELER. They actually came there to your house before Lee moved
out, or after he moved out?
Miss M U R R E T . He had moved out, I think, he himself, and then he came to
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my house, and then from there they were going to go, so they wouldn't get
lost-so they could find the directions, or something. I don't know.
Mr. LIEBELER. So Marina and Mrs. Paine came to your house and they went
from there, went to the apartment on Magazine then?
Miss M U R R E T . They stayed there a very short while and Marina was
petrified
Mr. LIEBELER. What was she petrified about?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, on meeting us for the first time, and the language
barrier, and the baby w a s cross and crying because of all the people
there, I guess, and probably tired. I think Marina was nervous or probably
thinking that w e would think that it was a bad or a spoiled child. So they
left very shortly after, and I don't think Marina ever c a m e in the back
Mrs. Paine came in the back to get a root beer, and I can't remember if
that is when she introduced herself, or I was in the front when they
introduced them, or not. I met Marina when she c a m e into the living room
I don't remember whether he introduced m e to Mrs. Paine formally, or
whether she introduced herself.
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Mr. LIEBELER. W a s Lee there at that time?

Miss M U R R E T . Yes; he had moved o u t Mr. LIEBELER. But he had come out, that is, come back to your house to
meet Marina and Mrs. Paine?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you talk to Marina?
Miss M U R R E T . She doesn't speak English. O n that day w e hardly said
anything.
Mr. LIEBELER. It was indicated to you that she could not speak Englishis that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever try to talk to Marina in English?
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w did it go?
Miss M U R R E T . It was exasperating.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did she understand any English?
Miss M U R R E T . I think she understood more than she could speak, but still
there is a lot she doesn't understand.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have the feeling that she was not very proficient
in the English language?
Mr. LIEBELER. Were you able to communicate anything in any way with her
at all in English?
Miss M U R R E T . Just petty things, you know, like if she would eat
something, how to make that, and "no like," or through mannerisms and
small words to say a few things. She also commented, you know, when
they
would eat over there a few times on the food, but other than that, s h e Mr. LIEBELER. Did you form any impression of Mrs. Paine?
Miss M U R R E T . Mrs. Paine? I d o n T k n o w - m y motherliad said that Lee had
been invited to this professor's house, or something, to show slides, a
professor out at Tulane, a professor of languages. *
Mr. LIEBELER. What is his name? Is it Riseman?
Miss M U R R E T . That was when he was living on Magazine, and I think they
telephoned m y mother to find out if anybody had called the house for an
application, or different things, and I think he said he was going that
night, that they were suppose to show slides. Now, this man had one
daughter, I think, who was in Russia, and he was a friend of Mrs Paine's
Mr. LIEBELER. Would the name Kloepfer sound like t h e
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Mr. LIEBELER. H o w about Riseman?

Miss M U R R E T . No; I don't know the language professor's name.
Mr. LIEBELER. You think your mother would remember?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't think so, because I think it was the other Secret
Service man who tried to get her to remember and she couldn't.
Mr. LIEBELER. And this professor, he was a professor of what?
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Miss MURRET. Languages.
Mr. LIEBELER. What language? Russian?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't know if it was only Russian, or what, or some other
language. He just teaches, you k n o w Mr. LIEBELER. And you don't have any idea where he lived?
Miss M U R R E T . W h o ? The professor? No. So then it was just that he had a
daughter in Russia, and I was just wondering why she got to know him
Mr. LIEBELER. Oswald?
Miss M U R R E T . I often wonder how it was that she spoke Russian
Mr. LIEBELER. W h o ? Mrs. Paine?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; and then it came out in the paper, or it was in Time
magazine, or something, that she was a Quaker, so I discarded all those
ideas also, claiming where she was, I guess, just purely interested in the
language, and you would see people who spoke that language.
Mr. LIEBELER. Were you suspicious of Mrs. Paine? Were you suspicious of
Mrs. Paine in any way?
Miss M U R R E T . At first, because she sought all of the Russian speaking
people, and she spoke Russian herself.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you indicate that the Secret Service had discussed this
with you about the professor?
Miss M U R R E T . No; my mother told me.
Mr. LIEBELER. Your mother told this to the Secret Service m a n ?
Mr. LIEBELER. Were you there when she talked to the Secret Service man?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember anything else about this professor that
we
could use to find out who he was, or who he is?
Miss M U R R E T . No; I don't. But it probably would be easy enough to find,
if he has a daughter who is a student over there, and I don't think that
that would be too difficult to find.
Mr. LIEBELER. After he and Marina had moved into the apartment on
Magazine Street, did you ever go to the apartment?
Miss M U R R E T . I just drove him over there once or-l think w e drove him
h o m e once or twice.
Mr. LIEBELER. Were you ever inside of the apartment?
Miss M U R R E T . Once I went in the back part.
Mr. LIEBELER. What kind of place was it?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, they had a back part of the house, and I never did
know whether it was a double, or what, or just the back part was arranged
to make an apartment" But he had called one Sunday afternoon and said "
that
Marina wanted to come over there. So I think w e picked them up in the
afternoon and brought them, but usually if they came, they took the bus
and w e always took them home.
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w many times did you see the Oswalds after that?
Miss M U R R E T . O n Magazine?
Mr. LIEBELER. That you recall? Yes?
Miss M U R R E T . I think they came over one day, one Saturday, and then a
half a day on Sunday, or this might have been the same day-l don't
know-and Labor Day, because I was not here from the beginning of July
until September.
Mr. LIEBELER. A m I correct in understanding then that the last time you
saw Oswald was on Labor Day, 1963, which would have been earlv in
September?
Mr. LIEBELER. Is that the time that you went crabbing with him?
Mr. LIEBELER. What was the occasion that you met"hTm on Labor Dav?
y
What
'
did you do?
Miss M U R R E T . They called up, or Lee called up and said that Marina wanted
to c o m e over, that she was tired of sitting at home. But m y mother had
said, because the last time that they were there and they were there all
day, with the language barrier, m y mother was exhausted, so she told him
to come in the afternoon. And this they did, about 3 or 4 they came over
in the bus.
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Mr. LIEBELER. Did they come over on the bus?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; and then we took them back.
Mr. LIEBELER. W h e n did you go crabbing with him? You did, did you not?
Miss M U R R E T . I think it was on a Saturday.
Mr. LIEBELER. So this would have been before July, is that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. Because you have indicated that you were not in N e w
Orleans
during July or August of 1963?
Mr. LIEBELER. W h o also went on this crabbing expedition?
Miss M U R R E T . Just Marina and I and he. I think the baby stayed at m y
house.
Mr. LIEBELER. Tell us what you can recall about that?
Miss M U R R E T . W e went to the lake, and Lee was doing all the crabbing, of
course, and w e didn't have any crabs, so I just sat there with Marina. And
then w e walked over to the coke machine and got a coke, and I got some
cigarettes, and I remember she said that she didn't smoke, and that Lee
didn't want her to smoke. So w e came on back and Marina told him
something
in Russian, and he started to laugh. And he said, "Do you know what she
said?" I said, "No." He said, or he was saying that w o m e n are all alike,
because she was telling him that here you spend or you only could afford,
I think he had two nets, and that was all that he had money for, and the
meat, so she was telling him, "You spend the money for the nets and the
meat, and you are spending all of your time catching nothing, when w e
could have gone down to the French Market and got them for the same
price." He said, "They are all alike, you know, Russians, American,
typical woman." I just sat there with her.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he ever catch any crabs that day?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember anything else that was said or that
happened on that day that was worthy of any note?
Miss M U R R E T . She didn't say anything and he was walking up and d o w n Mr. LIEBELER. Lee was?
Miss M U R R E T . And I was sitting on the steps with them, and it was only
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Mr. LIEBELER. So you were not able to talk to Marina?
Miss M U R R E T . I said a little bit, but nothing-l mean, you couldn't
really talk, and you would just exhaust yourself with petty things, you
know, word for word.
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w did this crabbing expedition c o m e to pass in the first
place? Did Lee call you and ask you to take him, o r
Miss M U R R E T . No; I think that they were over there and he just said, I
don't know, maybe just that they were going to the lake. I don't remember.
And then they asked me, stopped and asked m e if I wanted toMr. LIEBELER. But when this started out, Lee and Marina were over at your
house on French? And Marina and Lee left from there and went on this
expedition?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you form an impression as to how Marina and Lee got
along with each other?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, as I a m saying, at first, I had no idea, when he first
c a m e out, but then after I met them together, and then since the
assassination, of course, you know, how most of m y thoughts are running
back because that happened, but after that time, I a m saying that some '
statements c a m e out that he was very strict with her-l don't know. You
don't know in anybody else's house, I guess, but from all indications they
were perfectly happy. He was very devoted to Marina. H e seemed to love
his
child very much. And as I say, I a m saying that he was very wellmannered,
he really was. And I mean if any other girl sat down, he pulled the chair
out, and the car door was opened to let her in and out, and he does that
for everybody. And, I don't know, she just seemed tc^be perfectly happy
and that is when I really thought that m y imagination had just run away
with m e in the beginning, and that probably
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l-and he seemed to-l don't .know, but they just seemed to be very family
conscious and devoted. In fact, they were a real cute couple
Mr. LIEBELER. There wasn't anything about that that struck you as
peculiar or out of the ordinary?
Mr. LIEBELER. You never heard of them having any marital difficulties of
any kind while they were here?
Miss M U R R E T . Only what I read.
Mr. LIEBELER. Only what you read in the paper after the assassination?
Mr. LIEBELER. W h e n Marina mentioned to you that Lee didn't want her to
smoke, did you detect any resentment on Marina's part over that?
Miss M U R R E T . No; not at all. It was just that a lot of husbands don't
want their wives to smoke, for that matter. I mean you can't-l couldn't
really type her either, with the language barrier, but I mean she seemed
to be very nice to older people. She also, when they did eat there, she
immediately went to do the dishes, you know. You know, "Don't, Marina, I
won't let you do anything like that," and when my mother was around, she
always saw that she had a seat. And, I mean, she didn't seem to feel any
resentment at all, although she said that she had smoked before that.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did she indicate that she was satisfied with the apartment
or
Miss M U R R E T . She didn't like it.
Mr. LIEBELER. She didn't like the apartment?
Miss M U R R E T . She said she, "No like. No like."
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you understand-
Miss M U R R E T . Well, she didn't like the high ceilings, and Lee had said
that he didn't think she would, if they had a high ceiling place. In fact,
when they went, she didn't like it. She said that she liked low ceilings.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you said that you were in the apartment on one
occasion, is that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. W a s it an appealing place, or^ was it_decently furnished?
Miss M U R R E T . M y mother and I had gone there, and I thought it was very
nice for the money, actually.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know how much he was paying for it?
Miss M U R R E T . Sixty-five.
Mr. LIEBELER. What kind of neighborhood was it in?
Miss M U R R E T . O n Magazine I don't know about Magazine, but I don't think
Magazine is too good. But the apartment was all newly furnished. They had
a n e w icebox, I believe, and the other furniture w a s all refinished, and
the walls newly painted.
Mr. LIEBELER. You mentioned before that you had discussed religion with
Lee; and had you ever discussed politics with him at all?
Miss M U R R E T . He never mentioned anything of any political significance

at
all, never.
Mr. LIEBELER. Never said anything about President Kennedy?
Mr. LIEBELER. Or Governor Connally?
Miss M U R R E T . No; but I can't remember whether it wasif that was
before
or if it was on that program, where he said something complimentary
about
Kennedy, but he never mentioned anyone else.
Mr. LIEBELER. What program are you referring to?
Miss M U R R E T . That might have been when they showed when he was
interviewed after the Fair Play for Cuba, because it was after the
assassination that they reran that.
Mr. LIEBELER. That was a television program?
Miss M U R R E T , Yes; television.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you say that you saw it after the assassination?
Mr. LIEBELER. And you don't recall, but you think the man said something
complimentary about Kennedy on that?
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Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. And other than that you never heard him speak of President
Kennedy?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he ever talk about Civil Rights, and particularly the
Negro?
Mr. LIEBELER. You mentioned when he was younger that he made it a
point,
or at least, he did sit down on the streetcar right next to some Negroes,
and he got in trouble with his friends over that?
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any idea what motivated that, or whether it
was
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Miss M U R R E T . I don't think he knew any better. He didn't know the cars
were segregated, I don't think. I don't know. I just remember m y mother
telling m e whether or not he knew, or whether he did it, you know,
defiantly--! don't know.
Mr. LIEBELER. You mentioned you were not in N e w Orleans during July and
August of 1963, and where were you?
Miss M U R R E T . I went to Mexico and all through Central America and
Panama.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you travel by yourself?
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w did you travel?
Miss M U R R E T . By bus and station wagon.
Mr. LIEBELER. Your own station wagon?
Miss M U R R E T . No; public transportation.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you know that Oswald went to Mexico in September?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you read about that in the newspapers after the
assassination.
Mr. LIEBELER. But prior to that time you didn't know that he either
planned to go to Mexico or he was going to Mexico, or had gone to Mexico,
or was even thinking about going to Mexico?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you meet anybody on this trip to Mexico that had any
connection, with, as far as you know, Lee Oswald, either at that time or
subsequently?
Miss M U R R E T . O n this trip, no.
Mr. LIEBELER. What was the nature of the trip? W a s it just basically a
tourist operation?
Mr. LIEBELER. Basically a tourist operation, you say?
Mr. LIEBELER. W h e n you returned from Mexico to N e w Orleans, you learned,
did you not, that Oswald had managed to get himself in jail during the
summer?
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w did you learn that?
Miss M U R R E T . M y family.
Mr. LIEBELER. Your family told you?
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Mr. LIEBELER. What did they tell you?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, just, in other words, he had the Fair Play for Cuba
pamphlets, and they took him to jail. And m y sister had to go and get him
out. And, of course, she didn't know what he was in there for, and so m y
mother was in the hospital at the time and m y mother was not supposed to
have that operation until the fall, you know, but then they decided to
have it then. So, anyway, she was in the hospital for that, and I think
she said that Lee c a m e up to see her-but I don't know if it w a s after,
the next day, or before she was operated on-came to see her at the
hospital-and then that must have been the date when he left and was
distributing the pamphlets.
So he called up and he told Joyce that he was in jail, and to c o m e and
get
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him out. She didn't know what to do because she had her two children
there, and m y mother was in the hospital, and nobody to take care of the
children. So she said, "Call m e back, or something" or she said that she
didn't have the money on her, and that m y mother wasn't there. Well, I
don't know how that works, but anyway, she went down to the police
station
and went back h o m e again and went up to see m y mother and asked m y
mother
what to do. So, anyway, she went back to the station, and she said,
"Before I get him out of there, I want you to tell m e what he is in there
for." So the policeman told her, he said, not to get excited because,
"I've handled these cases before, and it is not as bad as it seems," and
all that. And she didn't know whether to get him out or not, since he was
involved in that. And I don't know if they went back to the hospital or
what, but they called this friend and he had him paroled.
Mr. LIEBELER. W h o was the friend? Do you know?
Miss M U R R E T . Of course, he didn't know-that was Emile Bruneau, who is
a
very prominent man. H e didn't know Lee at all, and that w a s just a
personal favor. He is very active in the city, I mean, and this was just a
personal favor.
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Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any conversations with Lee about this episode
when you saw him on Labor Day?
Miss M U R R E T . I didn't ask ask him anything else.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever see Lee drive an automobile?
Miss M U R R E T . As far as I know, he didn't drive, and m y brother took him
one day out through the park to attempt to teach him for about an hour.
But he had to turn down several jobs because he didn't drive. And whether
he is able to drive after one lesson like that, I don't know.
Mr. LIEBELER. As far as you know, did your brother ever let Lee take his
car and go by himself.
Mr. LIEBELER. This was your brother John?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he ever tell you how well Oswald did?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, it was a hydramatic and he could just steer it, and
that was about all, and with subsequent lessons he would have been able
to
drive. But I doubt, and I don't think there was any traffic--! think it
was in the park.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you see Mrs. Paine again when she came to pick up
Marina and take her back to Texas?
Miss M U R R E T . I only saw her once and that was for about 10 or 15
minutes.
Mr. LIEBELER. And that was in May 1963?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you know Lee had lost his job with the Reily Coffee Co.
sometime during the summer?
Miss M U R R E T . I guess he didI don't know if that was after I came back
or before, when he lost it. I don't know when he lost it W h e n did he lose
it?
Mr. LIEBELER. He lost it in July, sometime, while you were gone.
Miss M U R R E T . Well, 2 weeks at m y sister's about July 1, and from there,
13 days, because the 14th is my birthday, I left.
Mr. LIEBELER. You learned that he had lost it when you got back to N e w
Orleans? W h e n you got back to N e w Orleans, you knew that he had lost the
job and was unemployed?
Mr. LIEBELER. W a s he looking around for another job? Do you know?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't know. I only saw them once after that, and that was
Labor Day. I didn't ask him anything.
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Mr. LIEBELER. You mentioned this trip that you had been on, and you
mentioned that you were in Japan?
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w long were you out of the United States, and where did
you go, and what did you do?
Miss M U R R E T . Three and a half years, and I started out on m y way and
went
to Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Australia, N e w Zealand, Singapore,
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which was not a part of Malaysia at the time, Malaya, and straight on
around, just following the bottom-l went all through, Beirut, the Holy
Land, Egypt, Cyprus, and all through Europe and back.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you work during the time you were gone on this trip?
Miss M U R R E T . I worked in Australia and N e w Zealand and Japan
Mr. LIEBELER. As a teacher?
Miss M U R R E T . As a teacher; yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you teach in Australian schools orMiss M U R R E T . Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any trouble with the teacher certification
problems, or don't they have that problem in those places?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, it depends what your field is. I was teaching science,
which is the same-they have a teacher's college which is 2 years, and, if
anything, you would have more than they have.
Mr. LIEBELER. You are a science teacher?
Mis M U R R E T . Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where were you when you heard about the assassination?
Miss M U R R E T . At Juno.
Mr. LIEBELER. In school?
Mr. LIEBELER. W h e n did you hear that Lee had been arrested in connection
with it?
Miss M U R R E T . After I came home one evening, because when I heard it I
was eating lunch, and a little boy in m y class came over and told m e that
he had been shot. So they all had their radios on, and I ran over back to
the class, and I listened to it. And I remember the first part, where they
said that there was a lady and a man, and they said that they had
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Mr. LIEBELER. He never struck you as being that way?
Mr. LIEBELER. H e struck you as being just the ordinary, normal human
being?
Miss M U R R E T . He struck m e as being perfectly content with being the way
h
e was.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you what kind of job he had with the coffee
company?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you know?
Miss M U R R E T . No; I don't know if it was a mechanical one orMr. LIEBELER. Did he seem to be satisfied with his job?
Miss M U R R E T . H e said it was all right.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he impress you as having strong feelings about things
or not?
Miss M U R R E T . He didn't talk that much when he was over here, he really
didn't. I mean once, when I asked him several things about Russia, he said
nothing other than what I told you, in very general terms. I asked him
how he liked his job, and he said it was all right, that it wasn't any
different from any other factory. Most people seem to think that he had a
desire to do something that would show that he was somebody But he
didn't
strike m e as being that way. I think he really thought he was somebody.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he strike you as being a person of integrity?
Miss M U R R E T . Perfectly content-l mean hethought he w a s extremely
intelligent.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you think he was?
Miss M U R R E T . I thought that he was very articulate, but I mean I never
discussed anything with him in any great length to know whether or not he
knew what he was talking about.
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w did you form the impression that he was very
articulate? You had the impression that he didn't talk very much?
Miss M U R R E T . No; but I mean his accent was very good. I mean he
pronounced every syllable and the word endings were always pronounced,
and
he didn't talk very-he was just very quiet. If he didn't want to answer
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something, he didn't answer. You could be with somebody like that a year,
and you would get no answers-if he didn't care to give them.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever feel particularly close to him, or that you
had any peculiar or any real rapport with the m a n at all?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, I regarded him because he was m y cousin, I guess. I
mean I wanted to see him settled and happy, naturally; and if I could have
helped him in any way, just as m y mother, w e all would have. I mean he
didn't have too easy a life. I liked Lee. H e didn't strike m e as being
violent or definitely not one w h o could commit such an act.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you think that Lee would be liked by most people?
Mr. LIEBELER W h y not?
Miss M U R R E T . Because he wasn't friendly. He would be liked by a certain
type of person and hated by other types.
Mr. LIEBELER. Well, that is the thing I a m trying to bring out, and it is
a difficult thing to c o m e at, and I wish you would tell m e what you think
about this, how this strikes you, because it is difficult to frame a
question with regard to it. W e all know that sometimes people respond
differently to different human beings, since each person is different and
m a y have an entirely different response to the s a m e thing many times.
According to s o m e of the information w e have Lee was not liked by all
kinds of people, and as you indicated, you did like him, but you didn't
think Lee would be liked by people generally. I wish you would just tell
us really what you think about this, and why.
Miss M U R R E T . Well, because of his manner-l think people thought that he
thought he was somebody, you know, and they wanted to knock him down a
peg. And his entire presentation, I mean his walk-he w a s very erect-he
minded his own business, and I don't think he liked petty gossip and
things like that, and, of course, those people are varied in mind, and it
would take a perverted mind, if he did this (assassination). Anyway just
like the way in the Army; they said that the ones w h o c a m e up through the
ranks used to lead the college
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graduates, and so forth, a dog's life, because they had a certain manner
about them, you know, where they just automatically thought they knew
more
just because they had a degree. Lee didn't have a degree or anything like
that, but I think he w a s much more intelligent than the grades obviously
indicated, although, as I said, I never really discussed anything with
him. M y theory of it w a s that he w a s intelligent, and so that type of
person is usually disliked by this other group. And I don't know if
that-that is as clear as mud, I guess, or actually he stayed with a
certain class because his finances only allowed him to be with that
particular group, probably, and he didn't like them.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you thought that w a s very much of a problem?
Miss M U R R E T . Right; and even though he didn't have any money, he was a
different type child, you know. I mean, like I a m saying, he w a s not a
rough type of child, or anything like that, since certainly on Exchange
Alley he had a lot of opportunity to deviate from the right path, you
know. But he never went into any of those barrooms or pool hails, or
anything like that, you know. I guess, the other ones, he just didn't have
the money to keep up with, but his mother reared him to be like that. And
I guess he could live within himself, because he trained himself like
that. I m e a n he never played with the other kids, and when he c a m e h o m e
from school he read, and whether he was always reading this stuff, I don't
know, but, anyway, he read everything.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever have any knowledge or had you heard that he
w a s reading anything on Marxism or c o m m u n i s m ?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't know anything about that unless-anyhow, he w a s
trained, and he would read encyclopedias like somebody else would read a
novel, and that is h o w he w a s trained.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you think now, with the information that you have, both
from reading newspapers and also coupled with the knowledge of Lee'
Oswald,
do you think Lee Oswald actually did kill the President?
Miss M U R R E T . All the evidence points to him, but he just never struck m e
as capable of that particular act. I never thought he would be-l never
thought he w a s that maladjusted to want to prove to the world that he
could commit such an act for any personal gratification, unless, as I a m
saying, somebody else w a s with him. But then, I don't think he was-well,
he w a s such a quiet type, that probably nobody else could ever get through
to him.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did this impression that you have of Lee change any when
you heard he had been involved in this street fracas in connection with
the Fair Play for Cuba pamphlets that he w a s giving out, leaflets, and had
s o m e difficulty out in the street?
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something happens, then you start formulating your opinions, of course.

But I m e a n he seemed to be perfectly content, and particularly after he
met Marina. But then in other theories that were expounded, that perhaps
because he w a s turned down by Russia and then turned down by Fidel, that
perhaps he wanted to show them that he could commit such a great act
without the help of any others, and still they didn't want him to work for
them, you k n o w
Mr. LIEBELER. This is the theory that you have thought of since the
assassination?
Mr. LIEBELER. This is a theory that you have thought up since the
assassination?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, because everybody yells-it just didn't strike m e , so
if there w a s any reason, that just seemed to be the most logical one. But
then, on the other hand, and I know now that I a m looking back on all
this, and don't think that Khrushchev really turned him down at first, and
then let him have access to all of Russia, you know. I don't think he w a s
just turned down immediately, like that, and then being allowed to work
in
the factories, and go from one city to the other.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Lee ever indicate to you that he didn't receive the
kind of treatment that he expected to receive when he went to Russia?
Miss M U R R E T . Nothing. I didn't press him on that, because I figured even
if somebody didn't like it, that they, after they had done such a thing,
they wouldn't probably want to c o m e back and just, you know, do nothing
but knock it. H e wouldn't anyway, since everybody w a s so horrified that he
left, that he, you know, that he wouldn't admit that big of a mistake. I
don't think he could have realized that, because, I mean, as I a m saying,
he liked to do what he wanted to do. And as an individual he never did
really seek company. But then, no Communist lives like the Communists,
anyway-they live like capitalists, and just preach the doctrine.
Mr. LIEBELER. I think you indicated in response to m y question as to
whether or not you thought that Lee had done it, that it all looks very
much that w a y and that the evidence points that way, but what do you
believe? Do you believe he did it?
Miss M U R R E T . O n circumstantial evidence, but I don't-there have been so
m a n y conflicting reports, you know, as to two guns and one person
supplying the telescope, and another stating that that telescope had
already been mounted; so, if there were, l-it could have been more than
one shot actually, or I m e a n shot from more than one place.
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Miss M U R R E T . Well, then, after that, I said, this kid-well, I just

thought he was probably harmless, and just then I said, well, he is just
doing this because why would he go marching, exposed all over Canal
Street, and he voluntarily goes to be interviewed. So, I mean, that type,
I probably thought he was harmless. And he was just shooting his mouth
off. I mean, he didn't deny anything
Mr. LIEBELER. And that didn't seem inconsistent with the proposition that
he was a loner, and it doesn't, really, but it didn't seem inconsistent to
you?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't understand what you mean.
Mr. LIEBELER. You said the fellow was pretty quiet?
Mr. LIEBELER. And he stayed pretty much to himself?
Mr. LIEBELER. And then here you find him in the street handing out
leaflets in connection with Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and did you hear
that he was a m e m b e r of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee here in N e w
Orleans?
Miss M U R R E T . No; he said that after on television, or all of that c a m e
out after. H e must have been interviewed by W D S U shortly thereafter;
however
Mr. LIEBELER. You don't know?
Miss M U R R E T . I don't know whether they showed that the first time, and
they reran all of that after the assassination, but, you know, it was '
because m y family had told mewell, the policeman had told m y sister,
well, that a lot of these people do that around here, and it is not
against the law, just the fact
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that they are disturbing the peace. I mean these are just boysthat's
what he said, "they are just boys, and I handle a lot of them like that?"
And then after I saw it on television, he didn't deny anything, and he
said out and out that he was a Marxist.
Mr. LIEBELER. M y question is basically, did this surprise you, based on
the past experiences that you had with him? And did it surprise you that
all of a sudden he w a s in the street handing out leaflets?
Miss M U R R E T . Yes; it did, because he didn't say anything, but then, after
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something happens, then you start formulating your opinions, of course.

But I m e a n he seemed to be perfectly content, and particularly after he
met Marina. But then in other theories that were expounded, that perhaps
because he was turned down by Russia and then turned down by Fidel, that
perhaps he wanted to show them that he could commit such a great act
without the help of any others, and still they didn't want him to work for
them, you k n o w
Mr. LIEBELER. This is the theory that you have thought of since the
assassination?
Mr. LIEBELER. This is a theory that you have thought up since the
assassination?
Miss M U R R E T . Well, because everybody yells-it just didn't strike m e , so
if there w a s any reason, that just seemed to be the most logical one. But
then, on the other hand, and I know now that I a m looking back on all
this, and don't think that Khrushchev really turned him down at first, and
then let him have access to all of Russia, you know. I don't think he w a s
just turned down immediately, like that, and then being allowed to work
in
the factories, and go from one city to the other.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Lee ever indicate to you that he didn't receive the
kind of treatment that he expected to receive when he went to Russia?
Miss M U R R E T . Nothing. I didn't press him on that, because I figured even
if somebody didn't like it, that they, after they had done such a thing,
they wouldn't probably want to c o m e back and just, you know, do nothing
but knock it. H e wouldn't anyway, since everybody was so horrified that he
left, that he, you know, that he wouldn't admit that big of a mistake. I
don't think he could have realized that, because, I mean, as I a m saying,
he liked to do what he wanted to do. And as an individual he never did
really seek company. But then, no Communist lives like the Communists,
anyway-they live like capitalists, and just preach the doctrine.
Mr. LIEBELER. I think you indicated in response to m y question as to
whether or not you thought that Lee had done it, that it all looks very
much that way and that the evidence points that way, but what do you
believe? Do you believe he did it?
Miss M U R R E T . O n circumstantial evidence, but I don't-there have been so
many conflicting reports, you know, as to two guns and one person
supplying the telescope, and another stating that that telescope had
already been mounted; so, if there were, l-it could have been more than
one shot actually, or I m e a n shot from more than one place.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever see Lee in possession of a weapon of any kind
when he was here in N e w Orleans?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you see any rifle in his apartment?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever mention that he had a rifle?
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you think of anything else that you can remember about
Lee that I didn't ask you about that you think the Commission should
know?
If you can, I would like to have you put it in the record.
Miss M U R R E T . I don't know of any.
Mr. LIEBELER Were you interviewed by the FBI?
Mr. LIEBELER. H o w many times?
Miss M U R R E T . Once. My mother and I at the same time179
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Mr. LIEBELER. Can you tell me how many times, up at your house, you were
interviewed either by yourself or when your mother was there?
Miss M U R R E T . I think the FBI was there twice primarily for m y mother,
and
I talked to one of the Secret Service men once myself. My mother was
there, I mean, but he was talking to me.
Mr. LIEBELER. To the best of your recollection that is all, the only time
that either the Secret Service or the FBI have been in touch with you?
Mr. LIEBELER. If you can't think of anything else that you want to add at
this point, I don't have any other questions. I would like to thank you
very much for the cooperation that you have given to us. I want to express
on behalf of the Commission our thanks for coming here and being as
cooperative as you have been.
Charles Murret
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TESTIMONY O F CHARLES M U R R E T
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News reporters Robert S. Allen arid Paul Scott are

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authors of a syndicated newspaper column kndwja as the "AllenScott Report." In their columD March 26, 1964, in the"Northern
Virginia Sun;' they reported under the subtitle, "Hunt On For
US Defectors." This column related the administration of
President Johnson is launching one of the mostîntensive worldwide "man-hunts" in the past ten years -
seekingvfcp- pinpoint
the whereabouts of United States citizens who have defected to
Russia or satellite' countries since the endlof World War II. *
The news column listed by name seme of the'"most wanted^ defectors,
and among those names was Marilyn Dorothea Murrett.
On interview April 23, 1964, Robert S. fllen advired a
representative of this agency that-the newspaper column referred
to had been prepared by his associate, Paul Scott, and Allen
referred all inquiry concerning it to Scott,
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representative of this Bureau that his information concerning >
defectors had been obtained by him from two principal sources
whom he declined to identify. He related that he did..have some
additional identifying information in^hds possession concerning
fJurrett; however, he could not furnish it until such time, as he
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On April 28, 1958, New Orleans Series Passport Number

769007 was issued to Marilyn Dorothea Murret, 757 French Street,
New Orleans. On this application executed April 22, 1958, .at
the New Orleans Passport Agency, she showed her father, Charles
Ferdinand Murret as having been bor*n March 17, 1901, and mother, .
Lillian Glaverie Murret as having been brorpHQay ,13, 1901, both
presently living in New Orleans. On this application she listed
occupation as teacher, and showed she planned departure from
New York City June 5, 1958, via Sabena Airlines for purposes
of vacation and to attend a summer session at the University cf
Madrid. She indicated she would visit Belgium, France and
Spain for three months. In response to questions as tC past
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Select Committee on Assassinations
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
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Dear
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Bob:
Enclosed
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is a letter
from
Judge
"Hawk"
n*ni~ir
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2\T/i:nd r^sr'V"''"lnt[' "s :it/::send

ne
nas nad a 1 I fetime
of ex Der i pn<-n c >'n ^ ^
Judge Daniels has had a running f,!ud

i
with Bo
urrett
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the
llAVUii IV?*' '"> *** *"* lilting this he

hat
little
"urrett shoul" be f i-f'- ^ Si.* e o -
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to
J /rno* nothing ynore about Eugene f nan is fl,.M?I.S / !! I

! . . , an, the enclose, .
^
^ ^ ' L ^ . "" JU<,*e'S
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J
Let me >e bold enouah to ^nrrrr^c-t- /, ^+.
ti*atora
read and
.&*:&;v tei/aTtTz/Tf vyour

E
is of interest, as the Judge suggests
" ' *
Warm regards.
S i n.crc ly ,
BF:crr
Ends .
cc: Judge William Daniels
Bernard
Fensterwald,
inves
Jr
J U D G E W I L U A M H A W K (BILL) DANIELS
1323 SIERRA VISTA DR.
BATON ROUGE. LOUISIANA 70B1S
TELEPHONE , *-a-7_2o52
September 15, 1978
Honorable Bernard Fensterwald

2101 L Street, Northwest
Washington, D. C. 20037
Dear Bemie:
d-i-TSlffl ^ e H o ^ n a t " rfotrit^r:""10" f T . 1978.

sional committee investigating the a s s a W i ^ P * JU g ?
*"
*t h e c o n S r e s t h late Preside
Kennedy has failed thus far to subpoena befn V
2
n t John F.
Judicial
Administrator of the Louisiana lupreme C o u S and (ZTJt*
^mtt'
e f Execu
Louisiana Judiciary Committee.
" v e Officer of the
n
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HarveyîTbv SS?3f Sst^K 1!.^^' ^ ^^ feM BE '~

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and it was he, Murrett, who made arrangeraentTfOrn<ln,,t0 t h C P u r P " e d "sassin,
0
fellow seminarians, studying for t h T c l r h n ^
^ld t 0 s p e a k t o h i s ' t h en,
n
. Alabama, sometime during^swald-s New Orleans IS?!*?*
*t S P r i n S h i " College
oo
lnterlude
assassination. It is my understandtn rlZVL
> shortly before the
oo
by Epstein and this striked me as i n , ^ r
" d e C l i " e d t 0 b e interviewed
n<
that Oswald lived as a infant i t h ^ Surrett hoL" " T ^ "l n V i 6 W ft h e f a c t
o
t h m dUri g
the summer of 1963. Murrett's mo her ^ n d Oswald soothe" I ^
"
rto
one source has described Oswald's mother , w
??* W e r e S1 sters, and
La s m o t h e r a s
a
girl.
being a violently tempered young
But back to Eugene Murrett He wa< ,.1: . , , "
in 1963, which means that sometime after'that v f " I ! * b k i n d i c a t e s - a seminarian 2
dr PPed fr m
the seminary and from there proceed to get a law d e ^ r
- T ^
S
University in New Orleans. ?h U S inaverv Vdr
, I61ther Tulane o r Loyla ;
S
his religious studies to the more h a n a ^ o f " L ^ s m ^
*" ^
* "
ra sterl
became Executive Counsel to the then Governor of thVlLU
I,
y
"sly
fL o u l s l a n a
McKeithen. Prior to, or shortly after McKeithfJ. , " *
. John J.
the Judicial Administrator, an enigmatic distant
S^* f f i " ' M u r r e t t b e c a m e
referred to as the gray eminence o f ^ S ' S ^ ZlT
" ^
^ ' ^
I hope that I made it clear to you that j!,m ..
as the campaign he waged through the Judiciarv r C
Murrett is as intense
0
t0 exact
from the Baton Rouge City Court bench a
L "
"
"* r e m v a l
to me that taking the retirement to which I was entlt ^ '^l* ^ ^ " S e e m e d
escaping additional embarrassment and humiliation
ISfv^
" ^ meanS f
the center stage, thanks to the likes of M u r r a i n JS? o c c u P " d m Baton Rouge
management, the Hoffa case, the plot to assalsin~ D t " c o n c e r n i n g . labor
>,;into organized crime in government etc ere j? K ^ 6 " K e " n e d y ' investigations
to understand how in a short period of time I ' C O U T H " ^ ^
*' d i f f i c u l t ^ r me
S c
so high on several persons' "hit" lists t c L
" ntroversial and
u
approximately Oswald's age who prov ded'h m with a i d ^ n T * ' *!*' 3 f i r S t C 0 U s i n '
to extoll the benefits of life under Communism L/r'
" a " d a f o r u m i n w h ioh
that he renounced and betrayed escapes ^ t nv
? 6 X " r i a t e t h * government
t
mat
no shadow in a world peopled with shadows.
ter, casts absolutely
-le Bernard Fensterwald
.- 2
to a n ^ c t i v e ' C " " ^ ' " " ^ n t to say that I A- ,-,

State and municipal iuH ^ assa"ination.
amount of power th,* P
Judges in Louisiana h-,v
Murrett fcJShim eU^" "T*"" ^MS'I^1* -* at the
of a
judge on or off t h e T / h a r b l t e r o f what is accent,^ 1 " 1 "*" 0 1 "- I n short
W ere J h a v e
to cause investigation^ '
"
b e w conr
V n d u c t o n the part
0
H|
0
M
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0
O
, 0
O
1 look f
orward to seeing
Yours very truly,
William Hawk Daniels

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Enclosure
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KJ
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
Office of Legislative Counsel
31 January 1978
995023
',
M r . G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel

and Director
House of Representatives
Washington, D . C
20515
'Dear Mr. Blakey:

In regard to your inquiry, so far as this Agency is concerned,
there is no reason why Dorothy Marilyn Murret should not respond
fully and completely to any inquiry relevant to the investigation by
the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
/Lyle L. Miller
Acting Legislative Counsel
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
Office of Legislative Counsel
M5Q$3
31 January 1978
M r . G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel

and Director
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
'Dear Mr. Blakey:
In regard to your inquiry, so far as this Agency is concerned,
there is no reason why Dorothy Marilyn Murret should not respond
fully and completely to any inquiry relevant to the investigation by
the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
/
ihcer'ely,
Ucwtm
/Lyle L. Miller
Acting Legislative Counsel .
C.
advised that L
4i\; .and had
Was MABOUKRITB
out co^relate
bors oCthat
tblaBD
sax
sot want to have s*y
VU^RXT
aae pregnant. PIC tfw- ^ '--;.
IB D
children and that when
hild and left her. L
fused to support her sifiter ana i
??,*
d when JOflK BDWAKD-PZC
*?> .tlBUr obtained a divorce frco F:
?
arrled M B OSIAID, fnthorj:
5*T'/''"<fras approximately tuo years Z oj
a ref erred
s ^sjS^Ss*"plained tbatshe
didtfeCID^
^r ;.?* *t. ha
HABVXT
OSVA1D.
Mrs.
MOTE:
,r.slstsr'o î^d^cCv^::..
T-T:, :::: r * """.
trorolitan
Insurance
Company tor
5c?^v-'!taw
OOTAID's
full
aano
and
ho
&
'*'' husband worked for (ha
t
^"yoare and years* She sa d the first child born to her olfltor fi
, of thla oarrlage was BOB ET OS!AID and that when SCKKT was -rM^ :->A approxlaatoly fiva years of age, ^^R HARVBY OSWALD was bona '/^*gss&
&*:*
of this marriagee Mrs. UORRST otatod her sister's husband
died when she was pregna tt, approximately two oontfc* ***<> ^ t ^ f e
U l BARVBY OSIAID's birt t. While her slater was aarrlod t tfi&g&Jjt*
v^V^*!^"
,vC
^ W v - * <>8f AID, they purchased
8 home on Alvar 8treet where they
1
P-^-Orlia^^tiriii
iBVSY
OS*AU>
was
^
^
"
^
J
^
^
>
f
Mr
OS
AID'S
death
and
her
clotos*
^ ft^S'
^ U ;
SKEP^-w^rs llvlns o* t
Ber
sister
lA B#w
^&:irV>^r
^ ~ of
agTand during
the o.der
toys
warslived
fiSSSj
toi-^^>
'
continued
to 11 this tineidreaa.
****" iloardlnE hone, nmae not recalled, and she 0-rs. S^^^JT^^Wr-xrKt-*
&^>
o a ^ o f U T H A B V B Y OSWALD for an unrecalled {*<* pf *^
.Z^&fwMch/tothebest of her recollection, was less than o n o ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
a%-
*".H
r- "Jno.
whetherthey
therJ^*,"""",,"-S
^.Sf"^dirêJothinnhot
kl>other
other -*?r.^
know whether
Nothingftboutfcla
She he- wr.r .et SCKDlffl- ^ 1 g T f e t u ! o S Celery reported fl^
hw the ct that *- g;! f fc ?,5Str traveled to vwlooi .
to be ^ H i r ^ S e ^ o ^ i t h M.^ê-. *-*^ "f*r*juua A/i^M
JhSherlt. Ht *c*ae-/ war

that perloa.
.
"wî-*
Lsalnpl during V^L -Vl^ .-fj

b
" ^
g ^ g ^ f ^ ^ 2 ^ ^ ^
=^=^J=
...
1 ^ - - JlV/"
e Orleana, 1>oglgl
^g^wr^^
mm
'^"~':%Zr~" ' -';..' -"-"V- : '"' ;%..;;:----* ^ . ^ . ^ g ^ y . ^;.;::. '0 GO-CO . . .. ; ,- .. >...".-.-:. .-,0".v^;-.:.* - .V:.:,:
-* '"'"" - " 2ro. OTPPIT said that she not her sister, MABOOTaltB.
on the streets of Bev Orleans, date not J ^ ^ n ^ t o t sooj-- r
time^ftaTshe had sored to Texas, and that MAK0OTBIT1 told
;;
* #r at that tie that oho .was Ilviag la Covington, lomlslss*.^^ .
Mrs. MURRET
said that
of herL*J*fP^^Ê:
ber Bister
did to
aotthe
owahost
any property
at Covington, bomxsii
mot own any
property
at Corington,
Utwislsu*&Jê
and ia all probability,
rented
a house
for the iojejr.in
carried Into the school year aad It Is pos-lbls that I B ^ ^ g - f e BABVKT OS* AID entered .chool at Coylngton because be "^/,r-<^_^-i-_
Sf3V3 ?
approximately of .chool age at that tiao.
, V^Cê,^..,Vrs. mJRRKT related that her sister; opon leavlsf v^.^^Coylngton, went back to Fort Worth, Txaa and sored 1st a
îr^r\
Suplex she had purchased in that city." tfron arrlylsg i \-*&3&i
,2?t Worth, her sister istroduced herselS to another toaou* M > S 2
1. the building and that this wosaa Informed her * / * $ ^ ; 2 ;
2 " a o t tb. Mrf. EftlUHL she knee. H * f t * * , a U " - ' ' ^
;>-V
- :, . b.ck baaed on the in formation fumlehed by * ; * *
^&Hi$fy
r
i> ?T..llscoT.rl L cnUHL in the apart.ent of anoth.rwosaa j4^g$8B**fc
*-'^ -' oubsequently obtained a dlrorce fro. his. A short ; #tSfcjRw
'--'
after thia dlrorce BCTDAHL died, leaving her sister wltbost ,.,; ...^
any funds whatsoever.
' '-:<;':"-'-f.:7?>Z
Brs. MURBOT said that when Utf H^VT^0OTA^was;^5g|^
,; ^ aad his sother living in her hoee ***^SSll. th.y ':** **?*?: they ?oro attesptlag to 2ccato \9*"**mlSiui,
tos? **$
:
r-rr .ere getting settled. HoeeTer, there Is ^ " " " l i J ' T f . .: .
V-*
say hi'e stayod at ber hose for a day or ^ 4"*?* ~ -.."v.
~lî OSWAU) aad his sother U T W on Exchange Plac. t . -,c r .
*f "^
Sîlseând . haye giyen Hra. sTE2T's address bocaus. ..-. ^.::-- . ^ " t r n V a T r . peraanent sddres. than^he o n j >
^j>
*:" '.' and his sother would bars,
J v y S r V V ^ ^ Xrf/
^ " -. aM MminHT at.ted She knew that JOBM V>tkajtAtC-l*cz^
'hailivod xlTiew 1 ?^ ffi'SlU'&.. J O ^ " B
tos^
^
K'.T.'
r
>^* ^s*trvlce which she believes was the V. f. Coast ** ** ^_ v .
Êiew he was still 1$ cqrvico and she îswss^ M^"~ --V.t
:::.::-- ;.; '..?:-:.-. She recalls thatb.r & * 0 P i J W f f i T F l ^

. . .r..
has said that JOHK KDIAJtD PIC is a pharmacist. 2 0 3 ^ O B W A M J *S
Joined the 0. 8. Marine Corps and it is her ôllectloa
be was discharged froa the Marine Corps while her sister
was llviag oa Exchange p l a c is Mew Orlsaao.
Q.jr."ifi. iSJL-^ ,_
' V^ru< - J.
;
;^v.V^.v
m
BTJRRIT
informed
that
during
the
tlso
hsr
jf^.-v: TU0
; ._^t livin* on Exchange Place * she and UQ BASVST JW^j^
1-t.r
living
onKxchang.
Place,
sheând H l ^
* . ; *
S ^ V f i S S was
~ited
btrCBri?
SRRBT'S)
home
S g ^
Dtattrd she did notfcaowwhen her slater and tor **aiXj to" ; ^ r r ^
^v:^,:. -,; - k-.:-\v~ -jo :;-e UURRET. her Sister thought ^ f c 8 S M
V/''r' '''''
that BOBBRT OSVAID would want to settle in
to^^^^J^^S$
BOBBRT said all of his friends were in Texas and he wantod ^ ^
^
:
,;;.;..::-;.7%.
a '-.sv to ssttis u 7-ro Worth, Texas.
'- -%.>-.
' :' .-* 1 .
Mrs. MTOaW stated they did sot bear rc
.l.te zx&mm
for quite ios. lis* and that <* ,_..*
-:-:;.-; --..-. Bad had as accident

.^lUMutngrooa^nTicnool'S-Kua:;
S22 ^ K&Jf
;
~- &n<3 m t
:': : r-': - r"
v/^ :: r " - ovc

:
iSr.^nttter^
condition
that tise.
Is accident,
it was at
necessary
^^f^^
:
oon.'"; ' :: - . "r^- bad and sh< was la a dostituts jus3
l a t e r rocoi? ' .:;;:: Mrs MURRBT said she and her daughter f^tir
written toM h
because related
a Saturday,
. ^/CX tl
-..:...'on
- -ririetsas
anddata
that sot
o':^.j^^,^p^~}r:--^-r-r se.r MURRET
>
her
hone
dressed
is
a
.<..
,;:/;;;'
fromcaa<
MARGUBRITB saying she had sot
&&?&&
12 BARVBT O SfAID
r
that
he
was
stationed
?-**{-*
---[
-'-- [---:, was trouble ..j^:^*?:z>$'&&*t&9G
M a r i n e Corps uniform and
advise^
st B i l o x i , Mississippi. She s a that She and BARILYH took >*;*3?
U S BARVBT OSWAID to cither Hon an's Cafeteria or Gluch'S /^:..^\--his to the bus station :*#g2g^
Bestaurant for lunch * :aew
* * 'be
was
the first
tiseto
she
for his
to retmm
Biloxi, Mil isippi. She said this ^ > v
*ho Isvited LB1 BARVBT
Joined the Marine Corps. j^vês*
">ecause he was station
isit her home on weekends, .c:.
? risit her at any later
to her but he did aot r s i ^ v
*&> ****&*& - Mrs. MTORBT
,.ich was mailed la,,
âipiittmii";^.
^received s Christsas c
ie card and ashed hsr . ^ y *-"-^ ..
^
^ B u s s i a ; USM had sis a
g mis ^ ^ r , . > ^ ^ 1 , i ^ * i ^ - ^ ^
a ^ ^ ^ - t o writs his.Jf^tjjsr^^
^ J r J ( ; < ^ 4 > ^ L ^ ^ ^ ? - ^ r w ^ B a s > ff
.,>,
fo .iTajir.a IT IfI'M ilialBiafcaaSaWatJaataiaaMaj
*> ."/.
-
a] MM4
-:'_:,: ~zz ":~;:::\z ";o recall the exact dafco

-..
she received the Christsas card from U B :^~^zr: OSWALD* t*t
;"."': :"/:-. .T several years after he visited her hose while
.T^v
la the Barine Corps at Biloxi, Mississippi. Ifron obtaiaiaf "_
??r-\-zher eiotor'c (Address, she seat her Die tor a cfcoc& for $10 . .
-4>-'.z~i
''but did aot hear whether or act her sister received the chech.^._.__
r
>;
^^*^
'?- - Hrs. MURRBT said she'next heard froa IH WMXni Jf^**J%
** - -r~
" - -OSWAID when he telephoned her saying he was at the bos .-vr^gg^.V station in Bow Orleans and that he had come to Bew Orleans ^ j ^ r
\%*SA
" looking for work and inquired as to whether she could "put -..-'-**-
hie r,*r for a few days. At that time OSWAID told her ho *?&&%&
had married a Bussian girl and had a 15-month-old daughter, +$&*%&
Mrc. KURRET stated that LBX BARVBT OSWAID wis not at her homo. .-^-i*
itw . -->.-.
n Sector Sunday but that he could have.arrived during the ^ ^
HaStor part of AftriL# 1963 or the early part of May, 1963. **> *?
She said that.it is her recollection that IJ BARVBT 08W.U* !*:{cane t6 her home around noon on a weekday and stayed only r ^ v r
' ovor any
oao-r-ccr
^:n<lz,"^ho
theresomeon
until he obtained employment .;<>-:
0 rooainlng
owner wanted
ob with on ^
LBS BARVBT She
OSWAID
Obtained
. -. - :i
recalls
that QSWAID
7 coffee Coapany.immediately
c^<*2
lookingfoun<2
r?o? < f ^ ^ ^
3 ooon
ucompany
y j :ô la the classified section of OHor__
;'
'
:
:
/
:
;
her he wanted a alee hpartmeat^ m ^ ; ^ ;
ily Coffee r
use
the
woman
with
whomaad
his
wife p
had "'.
.
tiru2ay
he
wan
at Iior
ôr.z
called
short
-i^
-'
tot
:Tr~r7jn:-rT7T7^
. had
aleesane
to then
that _ \ -; i<
Job
and been
latervery
on the
date,and
contacted
been living in
she would probably he
briag
to Mew
a ^ might -.^._^,
didhis
notwife
get the
JobOrleans
at the printing
,/-?*>:
stay for a day or two. iaBX was successful"io
incould
J o c jdo
^ S letter" \, *
apartment on Magaxine Street the same day he obtained the ^ . ^-Y:^
Job at the Beilv^Coffee Company. UKB informed her that ; - r i ^ crc ^ aaaedtfTRTLS, who owns apartments herself, had ^\---^helped his :c^. this apartmcats Be also informed her that : ^ ^ m .
MTBTLB cave him lunch and drove him around in her personal v>-^
o^r to locate as apartment, r:rcc u m ^ r CD.IC cao -toi^vc- ^^.
that ^ 2 ^' his mother had previously ZZvod la cno o^ ^ ^ ^ - MTBTLB's apartments. Mrs. MVRRBT said that OSWAID moved J*A*\
"Into the apartment that same alght. ..... v^. .,, .- -%,:;..'/J^'/%::^:
'*- u Mrs."MURRBT said that while at her home/ UB '
OBWAID received a long distance telephone.call froa his
"::T;0 ^77~;:;T? '^!.V;
'.-^r
-.*." j
. VI T .
.*. \..SZJ.r* i.--.T. .--- -.:-.. .vfti y . o .-..^V. i4-^ti^r*.,-:
. - . .*
-Q -
^-^r^t^-
said that --.-.

la BussieBe Mrs. , MURRIT
wife aad spoke with h
,
-- "~J.!LLD 0 tfiSo Eandx .......
la C^L probability. *
for her because MABIMA *&j
been living in Texas
LgliShe 1
n also received a -^li^v^s---OSWALD spoke very lit
at her home. ' \ % * > V ^ r r ^ ^ : % " ~
letter from his wife,
af tor i^^^'i^:
Era. MURXXT stated that athe
tneSaturday
.**' ret,
he
H i 081ALD rented the apartsent a Megasiae i
.iv:
D.Q.8
case to her hone to avait the arrival ox nie
daughter. She said that around or betveen z <*..
tied
a that date, MABIltt 0S1AM aad & . ? > ! " * bar hose with s woaan driving a u w * 0 " ^ C 'recall > S g
br the woaan's two youxg daughters. Mrs. S U K R K T
.oaa\aslatrdaced to her by na but she does a
3 her "2~%*gffi'r.Z
.8? had* beenlivis. ^
woaan pith who. M A M M d her aaug
*,*
.^ __
a:5h7>nâ^SSUan 1^Su..^h.îl^.^
^:^rJ?re.randVh.hr usftg î^.:!/.h.di5-.o^^^':
SSSS.-^Tr
fa ^fhat^^Vgy
-%;
rom Texas knew a party
who was
vJ-f.^#/ s.^_
told her that this
itv but she docs not recall whether __ ^^
teaching nt Tulane Ui
^Sep?^
this poroon. I-BE informed kor . ;^:;.
:
-r
fe'-.-i--
;:
LKB mentioned the n w
on or that this person had / , , W W - ' -
they had visited thii
id they had looked at slides
.:
;-ja>~ *
.r ,
wisited LKB's aparts
Id her this person who taught., \
or film of Bussla.
.->
1 daughter who was attending a
at Tulane University
university la Bussia.
tMT
tKX four
f * occasions
. " l H * - , 2whil
a?.tl^5 . said
; .. that
three^r
.*|
'1:> family yl
t>living
U
oocarred
h
^ v e o k s afl
*êr apari
lira
She rocallod that the first visit;.~* rA

^proximately two or three 'J^v-J- it to lew Orleans. They cnae1 to *f*
arriving there, VBI o ^ P ? * * ^ ^
7^f 'bus aad
daughter MABILTB, took
U S
orabbing.
s ^ T C V f r-r. "r^--^T---'^-:^g7pr^r^.-?-.,\^,>.
i*T"i.*
-., .> *^>*v* - : J ^ r : J i f i > r ^ ^ r

^Mgrj
Wjtt S. Jr. resides 136 Elineer Place

Obituary of Charles F. "Dulz" Murret from the N.O. Times-Picayune, Tues.. Oct. 13, 1964:
Murret: On Monday, October 12. 1964. at 6:30 o'clock p.m., Charles F. (Dulz) Murret, beloved
husband of Lillian Claverie. father of Mrs. Emile O'Brian, Jr., Marvlin. Dr. Charles W., John and
Eugene Murret. S.J.: brother of Mrs. Stewart Wadsworth. Mauel and Jolin Murret; also survived
by 6 grandchildren; aged 63 years. A native of N e w Orleans. La. Relatives and friends of the
family, also officers and members of the Checker's Local N o . 1418 and members of the Jesuit
Seminary Guild, are invited to attend the funeral. Services from the funeral h o m e of Jacob Schoen
& Son. Inc., 3827 Canal St. at N. Scott, on Wednesday. Oct. 14. 1964. at 10:30 o'clock a.m. with
Requiem Mass at St. Dominic Church. Interment in St. Roch N o . 2 Cemetery. Masses preferred.
Friends m a y call afler 6 p.m. Tuesday.
N e w s article, same paper:

Headline: Death Claims Sports Figure
C. F. "Dutz" Murret, 63, Dies in Hospital
Charles F. "Dutz" Murret, well-known New Orleans sports figure, died Monday at 6:30 p.m. in
Southern Baptist Hospital afler a brief illness. H e was 63.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday from the funeral home of
Jacob Schoen and Son. Inc., 3827 Canal St.. comer N. Scott.
A Requiem Mass at St. Dominic Church will be followed by interment in St. Roch N o . 2
Cemetery.
Mr. Murret. w h o resided at 757 French St., Lakeview, was a longshoreman with the
Checker's Union Local N o . 1418.
In his youth, Mr. Murret, a native of N e w Orleans, had a few professional fights then
turned to managing professional boxers. Emile Bruneau, Jr.. chairman of the Louisiana Boxing
Commission, recalled Monday night that among some of the better fighters Mr. Murret handled
were Charley Rodriguez. Tony Sciambra. Red Hill and his brother. Louis Hill.
O n e of Mr. Murret's sons, Jolin "Boogie" Murret. was a baseball and basketball player at
St. Aloysius High School and Loyola University w h o played professional baseball in the St. Louis
Cardinal baseball organization.
A daughter. Joyce, is married to Emile O'Brian. Jr., w h o starred at end for and captained
the 1949 Tulane University football team. H e is presently coach of the Port Neches. Tex., high
school football team.
Mr. Murret is survived by his widow, the former Lillian Claverie of N e w ()ileans: two
daughters, Mrs. O'Brian and Miss Marilyn Murret; tliree sons. John, Dr. Charles W . Murret, and
Eugene Murrett, S.J.; by a sister, Mrs. Stewart Wadsworth; two brothers, Manual and John
Murret. and six grandchildren.
All survivors reside in N e w Orleans except Mrs. O'Brian. of Port Neches. Texas, and
Eugene Murret. w h o is studying for the Jesuit priesthood and is presently teaching in an El Paso.
Tex., Jesuit high school.
Flope it all gives you something to chew on! Contact you later!
uSCA (RG 233)
Reference
copy, JFK Collection:
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LOU.S.ANA. PURSUANT TO LSA-R.S. 40:33. ET SEQ.
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JUDGE W.LUAM H A W K
(B ILL)
DAN.ELS
t323 SIERRA VISTA DR.

BATON ROUGE. LOUISIANA 70813
TcLC^HONr I.I ttt-ZOSZ
September 15, 1978
Honorable Bernard Fensterwald

2101 L Street, Northwest
Washington, D. C. 20037
Dear Bernie:
2 2 2 * * ? " -nteiorneefderteonCye0u0thatr Y ^ S ^ ^ " * ^ f S e p t e m b e r " " 7 8 .

sional committee investigating the a s s J ^ . " Passing strange that the congresKennedy has failed thus far to subên" before?rf ""m la" PreSident John '"
ffitrator of the Louisiana S u p r e ^ e ^ r t L
" % ^ P " * **""" J u d i a l
and C h l e f
Louisiana Judiciary Committee.
Executive Officer of the
n
fD
n
a
a
fe^Tox llZf?. tS.^ ;f iênd: The Sec,, w,, .. .
o
and it was he Murrett. who made arrangement" for"^".^ L"e PurPrted assassin,
a
fellow seminarians, studying for the CathnK^
I*3" t 0 S P e a k t 0 his, then
n
Alabama, sometime during Oswald's New Orleans ^"fT' " SP*^1 College
o
assassination. It is m y understanding that Mur^r,^ 6 ,' S h r U y b e f o r e t h
o
V Epstein and this strikes me as being a s t ~ d e ^ n e d to be interviewed
<
-, raibd ,,,, arjBS'.-asar--3.-,

But back to Eugene Murrett u
SL'S
WhlCh
iT"" th"^SH ft^'thattafh;3 ^ indiCat6S'

haVe b e e n dr
a Semi
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the seminary and from there proceed to get a law H

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PP* from
g r e e at e i t h e r T u l
University in New Orleans. Vhus in avfrv V ?
ane or Loyola ! S
ri d of time he had
e
his religious studies to the more banal wL of , ?f ,
" from S
became Executive Counsel to the t h e n ? !
I lawyer's life and mysteriously
"
0
he State
f
McKeithen. Prior to, or short y'after McKe Ithen' 1
***"ota i ~
aV1 g
the Judicial Administrator, an enigmatic distan? ^
" f f i C e ' M u r r e " ecai
referred to as the gray eminence ofthTstetTs^reme Court"86 figUr6' SOmetimeS
r^rl^"**"'"" -^'through theûdictarrco^jf6 fr """^ is as -tense
from the Baton Rouge City Court bench a
!.
" v " tC> e x a c t V removal
escanin^3"^ the retiren.ent S whicn I was enMc^ SimP^ because * d
the ^ n f a d d l t l o n a l embarrassment and humiliation
T h " " t h e " l y m e a n s f
the center stage, thanks to the likes ofMurr"ettl
^ O C C U P i e d i Baton Rouge
management, the Hoffa case, the plot to a , T !
otters concerning, labor
R bert Kenned
into organized crime in government etc etc "L h
>'' investigations
L* "drstand how in . short period of time l'COu?d " ' lt *S d i icult for me
** high on several persons' "hit" lists includl^ J ** S cont roversi a i and
.-^proximately Oswald's a g e who provided'him with 8 " Urrett ' s - Yet, a first cousin
th^he e bTfltS f Ufe ^der maS^?S 2^ ^ * f l" "hich'
that he renounced and betrayed escapes scrutiny or l e x c o r l a t e the government
X
no shadow ln a world peopled with shadows
" f r t h a t m a t t e r . <=asts absolutely
Date:07/21/93
Page:1
JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY INFORMATION
AGENCY
RECORD NUMBER
HSCA
1801004910091
RECORDS SERIES
FBI CASE FILES
AGENCY FILE NUMBER
62-109090-3RD UNRECORDED AFTER 172

DOCUMENT INFORMATION
ORIGINATOR
FROM
TO
FBI
HOOVER, J. EDGAR
RANKIN, J. LEE
TITLE
DATE
PAGES
06/11/64
2
SUBJECTS
W C LIAISON
MURRET, MARILYN
ISAACS, HAROLD
SCOTT, PAUL
DOCUMENT TYPE
CLASSIFICATION
RESTRICTIONS
CURRENT STATUS
DATE OF LAST REVIEW
LETTER
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OPEN IN FULL
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.."..' Instituto of ?cehcolo7-cs boirc associated trith Llurrct.-'v-;.;.. y- '-*
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to support nay of L'cott^c allegations about Ilurrct and '.. -'-'... i , _ ,
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t<2 a h e mentioned being twir^ ;*r+
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9*^3m SltlA.'SS w*y "f t0 LLE HARVE y OSWALb'e activiiU.:'#^V;

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RRTTT, JR., dentist ind graduate

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St*t# University, location imtooim. . ^ ' ^ v ' " ^ ^ ^ ^
f t w ^ * ? 1 ' b ? l i # v * d tb have married a Texas
physician, location unknown,
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6EKT HURRE1T, a Roivan Catholic priest of thm'''^^:*^~-^Jfeuit Order, location unknown.*
* ! ^ c ^ ^ ^ ^ 7 - . , " B O O S I E ^ J I O T R E T T , believed to be pl.yine - p r o l m m ^ S S
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^ -Sergeant PIC said he believed his mother's ----V ^ :;; ^
deceased husband, ROBERT LEE EDWARD OSWALD, SR,\ had a
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brother, HARVEY OSWALD, who years ago lived in New:
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w h e t h e r fcAKVEY
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WASHINGTON JE D. C. 2 0 5 3 5
1M Reply, PtaoM Rtjtr a*

KZdNeV
WAY 7 '1964
News reporters Robert S. Allen arid Paul Scott are

^
authors of a syndicated newspaper column knov.p as the "AllenScott Report." In their column March 26, 1964, in the"NortherD
Virginia Sun,' they reported under the subtitle, "Hunt On For
US Defectors." This column related the administration of
President Johnson is launching one of the most*intensive worldwide "man-hunts" in the past ten years -.
seelcingftto* pinpoint
the whereabouts of United States citizens who have defected to
Russia or satellite'countries since the .end of World War II. J
The news column listed by name some of the'"most wanted^ defectors,
and among those names was Marilyn Dorothea Murrett.^
On interview April 23, 1964, Robert S. rJULlen advirod a
representative of this agency that*the newspaper column referred
to had been prepared by his associate, Paul Scott, and Allen
referred all inquiry concerning it to Scott.
,:*f
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On interview April.28, 1964, Paul ScOtt advised a

representative of this Bureau that his information concerning >
defectors had been obtained by him from two principal sources
whom he declined to identify. He related that he did have some
additional identifying information in^his possession Concerning
Murrett; however, he could not furnish it until such time.as he
was able to "confirm" it through other means not disclosed.
With regard to Marilyn Dorothea Murrett, Scott stated
he had some information.to indicate a "tie-up" between her and =
the case of Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated the late President
Kennedy, but Scott said his information was not confirmed;v*lso
he said he believed that Murrett was "linked" in some manner;../
with the communist "apparatus" of Professor Harold Isaacs of' _;
Massachusetts Institute of {Technology. Scott said he was^nable
at this time to furnish any additional information in this vein, he
1 stated he was working on the matter of. obtaining additional
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Inquiry at the Passport Office, Department 'of State, *-/
disclosed a passport file on one Marilyn Dorothea Murret, and ,:\:
information noted therein would appear to be pertinent to t m s
investigation." The passport data is set forth as follows:
- ->^~ Marilyn DorotheaMfu^ret, ^c^ûlyJ^^^S^jtlw^Jean^
Louisiana, living at HO*W**^-1^^
first"as issued United States Passport Number 436517 on July 13,
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July 7, 195-1, in United States District Court, St. Louis,

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she showed her parents as Charles Ferdinand turret, born

-March/7,1950, at New Orleans, and Lillian Sophie'Claverie, J>~rn.
May 17/ 1^0157 in.New.OrleansJ both presently, (1954/ living at
,
-"757 French Street, New Orleans. I This application Ws-accompanied ^
by~a-certifi3d-ecpycf"her birth-certificate issued by the
City of New Orleans Health Department. Witness on the application
was Peter W7Wujcik, 320 Ballman Drive, Ferguson, Mi^souzi.'
On April 23, 1958, New Orleans Series Passport Number
769007 was issued to Marilyn Dorothea Murret, 757 French Street,
New Orleans. On this application executed April 22, 1958, .at
the New Orleans Passport Agency, she showed her father,'Charles
Ferdinand Murret as having been born March 17, .1901i a n d mother, .
i Lillian Glaverie Murret as having been born"T3ay .13, 1901, both
presently living in New Orleans. On this application she listed
occupation as teacher, and showed she planned departure from
New York City June 5, 1958, viaNSabena Airlines for purposes
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of vacation and to attend a summer session at the University of
Madrid. She indicated she would visit Belgium, France and
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Spain for three months. In response to questions as tc past
-or present membership in the Communist Party, she answered
such questions in the negative.
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On March 14, 1960, at the Office of the American Consul,

-Tokyo, Japan, Marilyn Dorothea Murret executed an application
for renewal of Passport Number 769007. At this time she showed
her local address as Kobinoto Hotel, and indicated the purpose f*
of her foreign travel wag that of tourist. On the same date,
her passport was renewed until April 27, 1962.
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- On April 17, 1962, before the American Vice Consul,
Karachi, Pakistan, Marilyn Dorothea Murret executed application
for a 'new passport and on that date was issued'Passport Number
Z-120389, valid to April.16, 1965. She showed she wad than
residing in the Young Women's Christian Association; that her
1
legal address* jvas 757 French Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
She also indicated she pJ.*r.ed to return to the United States
within seven months. Concerning her absences from the United
States, she showed she had been in India for nin* months datir.fe
from February, 1961; in Japan tor six and one-half months dativ*
from September, 1959; and in Karachi, Pakistan, since April-21, D-V '' -2- '
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a .white female, five feet seven inches tall, with dark
hair and brown eyes. Occupation was given as tbacher.
event of death or accident, she requested notification
mother, Mrs. Charles Murret, at 757 French Street, New
Louisiana."
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It will be unnecessary for WO to review passport
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LEE HARVEr"OSWALD
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Enclosed is one copy of .memorandum dated 5/7/64 concerning
Marilyn Dorothea Murret, One copy of this memorandum is also
enclosed for Dallas for its Information*
Murret is a cousin of Lee Harvey Oswald, her mother being
a sister of Oswald's mother. She was interviewed on 11/29/63 and
advised she took a trip around the world beginning in July, 1959,
and ending in January, 1963.
You will note that in paragraph four en page one of the
memorandum mention is made of a Professor Harold Isaacs of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This man may be identical
with Harold Robert Isaacs, the subject of your file 105-1125, Who in
1958 was employed at the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. You should
submit a letterhead memorandum captioned "Marilyn Dorothea Murret
suitable for dissemination to the President's Commission. Refer
to tho enclosed memorandum and include Identifying information on
Isaacs and background data about him. Include also any information
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SP/5 BILLY JONES, Battery D, Fourth Missile
Battalion, advised he is attempting to learn the Spanish
language with the help of DELGADO but fools DELGADO is not
a qualified Spanish teachor since ho has only helped him in
certain simple Spanish torms.
On December 11, 1963, ELSTETH KULIK, 402 Mount
Prospect Avenue, Newark, Now jersey, telephone number
485-1541, advised SA JOHN T. MURPHY sho has known JOHN MURRET,
New Orleans, Louisiana, for the past two and ono-hftlf years as
a personal friend. She stated ho has telephoned her occasionally,
the last time in September, 19G3, and sho last saw him during
the summer of 1963.
Miss KULIK doclarod she did not know MURRETrs
father or mother and did not know their relationship with
anyone else, in particular with OSWALD.
Miss KULIK noted up to Juno, 1963, she had rosidod
at 1 Mohican Place, Lake Hiawatha,>'No.w<Jorsoy, at which time
she had telephone number 334-1034.
Mrs. ANN GARRET, Box 150, Vornon, Nov; Jersey, another
alleged telephone contact of MURRET, on Docombor 11, 1963,
advised SAs RICHARD C. LEE and WILLARD ST. MAR IE, JR., that sho
does not know anyone in New Orloans and novor rocoivod a
telephone call from that city. Jho stated sho does not know
JOHN MURRET or his family or ELSTETH KULIK, and definitely
did not know LEE HARVEY OSWALD. Sho was of the opinion the call
could have been/a wrong number call which sho would have no
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wild Oswald, ullom they de*United StlM Consulalc in U Mint
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In lrlSiiHin. In Ann' Nel'on,
Ihe m a n said both m m wcr- n\ liirr> n| M r . Kenned*'s orrival in
read} in lilt room and in eonvcr Dallas At llir lime of Ihe airsalion when hr look a seat at a noil ton* crsation hr w a s trine
table In Iron! of them AMcr plai followed liv * m a n n a m e d either
in? hi< order, he noticed Ihc pair I H n M m a n or llockman. |m w a s
*ere discussing M r Kenned*'%, , n "iHier" h i m .ind d'*iro> a
dealh. and bepan to pay allrnlion j I0'-* > d r | aulnmobilr Is
in hi< possession.
to >h.il they laid
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m a d e H impossible In hear thr> the F B I reportedly hHieve is
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told his companion " w e have
and descriptions forwarded In the
m o r e m o n e y at odCrJlsposal n o w
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pronounced eyebrow?, appcarrrl Missouri hold. T h e group were
to be askinf. his companion lor to rc*er*e r o o m s under the n a m e
details Of the ihonlin" lie W O of a tevlile concern.
wearing heavy, plastic framed
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ration and began discusirc ir
11 is companion. Ivclievcd to l>e plane after the third m a n . lil
V) or oliler. w a s viewed onlv linn .-t s^-pirate lalile, appar
from behind b> the informant. rntly signaler! Iliem lhat someone
H o w e v e r a partial description in- w a s in earshot of their disru*
dicated be wore a lir.ht Iweed .ion T h e I ni inforrnapl testitiril
iuit a n d two tone b r o w n shoe*. llu m n aitling separately stared
had hndlr pnci-marl.f-Vreel at him. In such a m a n n e i thai
and rrddisli-hlondc hair M e wore Iir rnl u p and Irlt ttir room II
a hearing nid in hi< right ear. an attempt lo locate th' police.
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and spoke ith a slight ac cent
T h e m a n w h o follo"frt Ihe In
In their ron\ ersal ion. l-olh lormant IT be'ieved to be al>oul
n u n eiprcsscd concern over b o w 3"> \e.ns old. and i dcscril
m u c h of the plot In kill Kenned* hating a deformed nosr Ii
l,c Harvey Oswald has passed on hair and flushed chi el '
to hi wife. 0<wa1d w h o is MIS- tall, and fic.hin2 al
peeled of l>einc the m a n h o pounds, he is believed In ' r lefl
fired at Ihe pre'ident w a s handed T h e finc'rs of hi-, Irli
arrested shortly afler the stioot- hand were either scarred or ta
inn H e w a s shot and killed two looed.
days later, while bcinr. transfer
rcl from o n e jail to another In
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Dallas.
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T h e pair apparently arrced
th.il even should the commission st;mdinc l^lween the lnfnim.ini
currently invcMiraiin- ihc assas- and a stairway leadinc to t! r
sination conclude Oswald w a s H C M P office on tlie cround floor
Cuilly. the Fill would not slop nf Ihe airioit. and I hi n approach
mil him as he began lo relate hi"
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relationship with Oswald *ere up and w.ilLed lo one of Hie flichl
read* r o o m s on Ihe second Moor
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TESTUyOSIY OF MRS. LILLIAN MURRET
The testimony of Mrs. Lillian Murret was taken on April 6, 1964, at tl
Civil Courts Building, Royal and Conti Streets, New Orleans, La. by Mr.
Albert E. Jennet, Jr., assistant counsel of the President's Commission.
Mrs. Lillian Murret, 757 French Street, New Orleans, La., after first
sworn by Mr. Albert E. Jenner, testified as follows:
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Murret, you received, did you not, a letter from Mr.
Rankin, general counsel of the President's Commission?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Asking you voluntarily to appear here for the taking of y<
deposition.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And there was enclosed with that letter, was there not, tl
documents.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. One was Senate Joint Resolution No. 137, which is the
^- legislation authorizing the creation of the Presidential Commission to
- investigate the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, our President;
another was the Executive order of President Johnson appointing the
Commission and empowering it to proceed, the Executive Order being No.
11130, and a copy of the rules and regulations for the taking of testimony,
adopted by the Commission itself. Did you receive those?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Now, if you can remember, Mrs. Murretand don't feel off*
by thisbut ordinarily witnesses do nod or shake their heads and that
doesn't get into the record, so if you will answer right out, then it will
be in the record. Do you understand that?
Mr. JENNER. Experienced court reporters like this gentleman do catch ]
nodding and head wagging, but technically they are not supposed to interpret
the intent of the witness. Do you understand that, Mrs. Murret?
Mrs. MURRET. I understand.
Mr. JENNER. All right. I assume that you gathered from these documei
that the Commission was created and appointed to investigate all of the
facts and circumstances surrounding the tragic event of November 22, 1963
did you not?
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Mr. JENNER. Mr. Liebeler and myself, we are attorneys on the legal st;
^ .a Commission. It is our task to investigate the life of Lee Harvey Oswald
from the time of his birth until his demise on the 24th of November, which
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was on a Sunday, 1963, which gives our Commission a pretty broad area of
investigation, so to speak, and one of our purposes in particular is to take
igrre depositions of people such as you who in any way touched the life of Lee
"Harvey Oswald or those with whom he was acquainted perhaps, either directly
or collaterally. We understand from the FBI reports and otherwise, from FBI
interviews with you, that you will be able to help us.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I will if I can.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, just sit back and relax. There's nothinc
going to happen to you. We just want to ask you what you know about Oswald,
his mother, and others with whom he came in contact, to your knowledge.
Mrs. MURRET. Do you just want me to tell you what I know about his li:
Mr. JENNER. Yes; as far as you know. I will just ask you questions, ai
believe it will help us if you just answer them to the best of your
knowledge. I wonder if we might get the lady a glass of water.
(Glass of water given to witness.)
Mrs. Murret, let me orient you for a moment. You are the sister of Le
Harvey Oswald's mother, are you not?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I am.
Mr. JENNER. First, what was your maiden name, Mrs. Muttet?
Mrs. MURRET. Claverie.
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Mr. JENNER. How do you spell that?
Mrs. MURRET. C-L-A-V-E-R-I-E.
Mrs. JENNER. And your first name is Lillian?
Mr. JENNER. Were you born in New Orleans yourself?
Mrs. MURRET. New Orleans; yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And you have always lived in New Orleans; is that right9
Mr. JENNER. Were your brothers and sisters born here?
Mrs. MURRET. They were.
Mr. JENNER. In New Orleans?
Mr. JENNER. So that you all are native-born Americans; is that right9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; native to LouisianaCajuns.
Mr. JENNER. Cajun and American?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. Then all of the family are native-born Americans; is that
right?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, not my grancârents.
Mr. JENNER. Not your granoârents?
Mrs. MURRET. No. On my father's side were from France, and my granoâ:
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on my mother's side were from Germany.

Mr. JENNER. Now, Mrs. Murret, once in a while I may have to ask you a
estion which is a little personal, but please accept my word that it is in
good faith and that it is pertinent to this investigation, and my first
personal question is, would you tell us what your age is?
Mrs. MURRET. What my age is?
Mr. JENNER. How old are you?
Mrs. MURRET. I will be 64 in May, May 17.
Mr. JENNER. And how old is Marguerite?
Mrs. MURRET. I think she should be 57.
Mr. JENNER. Marguerite, I should say, is the sister of Mrs. Murret.
Now, I would-like to have you tell me something about her, how many t:
she was married, to whom, in chronological order.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I will tell you all I know about her. I have known
all her life, you know. She was first married to Edward John Pic.
Mr. JENNER. Edward John Pic?
Mr. JENNER. Is that P-I-C?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. I think we have that as John Edward Pic. Is there an
explanation for that, do you think?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I think they just reversed the name around because
child is John Edward, but I think the father's name was Edward John, because
. :hink they always called him Eddie. Now, I don't know which way it is.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Do you happen to recall when that marriage tot
place?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I wouldn't remember what year, you know, or anythii
like that, when the marriage took place. I know about how long they were
married. I think they were married about 2 years, but I'm not really too
accurate as to years.
Mr. JENNER. Well, as closely as you can come to it.
Mrs. MURRET. I know what happened, but the dates I just don't recall
exactly, because I had my own affairs to take care of, so I can't remember
dates in her life, but anyway, she was married to Eddie for 2 years, we'll
say
Mr. JENNER. Let me interrupt you for a minute. Tell me something aboui
marriage. Who was he? Did the marriage take place here? Were you present?
What do you know about that marriage?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't know too much about the marriage. I don't thin]
took place here. I just don't know anything about that. It might have taken
place over on the Gulf Coast. I don't know if I am right on that or not.
That has been so long ago, but Marguerite did know Eddie a very long time!
Mr. JENNER. She had known him for some time before she married him?
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Mrs. MURRET. Oh, yes.
Mr. JENNER. Had you known him for some time before she married him?
Mr. JENNER. What was his business or occupation?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, Eddie worked for Smith. I think they are stevedor*
Mr. JENNER. What did he do as a stevedore?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I don't know what type of work he did. I think it
clerical work. I think he is still with the same people.
Mr. JENNER. He is alive?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, yes. I think it's T. B. Smith, or something like thai
don't know what the initials stand for.
Mr. JENNER. T. as in Thomas?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And B. as in Benny?
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Smith?
Mrs. MURRET. Smith, yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you think Edward John Pic is still employed by them?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; he issome kind of clerical work, as far as I know
reason I know he is is because Mr. Murret, who works on the river, saw him
_ out there, but it was from a distance.
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Mr. JENNER Your husband works on the riverfront, does he?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Were you married to your husband before or after Marguerii
married Edward John Pic?
Mrs. MURRET. I was already married.
Mr. JENNER. You were already married then?
Mr. JENNER. And your husband does have an acquaintance with Edward Jol
Pic, does he?
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Mrs. MURRET. Oh, no. He just maybe occasionally will see him from a
distance, but he has never spoken with him. In fact, I don't think I would
know Eddie Pic if I saw him on the street. That has been so long ago. I
don't think I would recognize him myself. Eddie Pic was a very peculiar type
of boy, you might say a person who did not talk unless you spoke to him, and
they would come over to my home for dinner or something, and he would sit
there all day long and he wouldn't say anything. Now, I don't know whether
all of this is important. I don't guess some of it is.
Mr. JENNER. Don't you worry about whether you think it is important oMrs. Murret. We will decide that once we get all this information assembled.
You just tell me what you know about all of this, anything that comes to
your mind that you think might be important to the Commission in this
W. ~ restigation.
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wasn't fair. He told Marguerite that he was making more money than he was
_ôver there, and she had to go back to work. She worked for Mr. Sere. He was
fc-^8 o f the lawyers in a law firm at that time, and Marguerite worked for
him. It was the firm of Goldberg, Kammer and somebody else lawyers.
Mr. JENNER. Was Sere a lawyer?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; they were all lawyers. They were three lawyers togei
He was secretary there at first, but then he became a lawyer too.
Mr. JENNER. How do you spell his name?
Mrs. MJRRET. Mr. Sere?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. MURRET. 'S-E-R-E.
Mr. JENNER. Is Mr. Sere still alive?
Mrs. MURRET. He is not.
Mr. JENNER. He is dead?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Just go ahead now with what you know about
Marguerite's first marriage.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, the way I understood it, and this is only what she
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, now, I know nothing, you know, other than thatbut she said Eddie had
lied to her about how much money he was making at this place, and that it
was a very small salary that he made. He went out and rented a house in the
City Park section, which was very high rent, and then it seems like he
signed a lease and all that, and then after that Eddie must have told her in
the meantime what he was making over at that place, and they couldn't
possibly have stayed there and paid that rent on his salary, so she had to
ask for her job back again, so they took her back again and then they paid
for furniture that they got and so forth while she was working.
Mr. JENNER. How old was she then?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, let's see John must be about 31 years old now.
Mr. JENNER. You mean her son John?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. They were married, I think, about maybe 4 years bef<
John was born. I don't know the dates or the times or anything, but you can
figure that she is 57 now, and John is 31.
Mr. JENNER. Well, she would have been 26 when he was born, would that
about right?
Mrs. MURRET. Twenty-sixI don't think she was that old; I don't know
Mr. JENNER. Well, 31 from 57 is 26.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. Well, she could have been, but I didn't think she w<
that old. I thought maybe she might have been around 23 years old. Let's
^ well, John wasn't born until 4 years after she was married, you see.
Mr. JENNER. Ohwell, that would be 26 less 4, so that would be 22*ye<
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I think she was 22 about then, 22 or 23, somewhere .
there. I didn't think she was 26 yet.
Mr. JENNER. So we can say that she was married when she was about 22 <
old; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I think that's about right.
Mr. JENNER. What was her formal education?
Mrs. MURRET. She had a high school education.
Mr. JENNER. Here in New Orleans?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; M^Donogh High School. She lived with Mr. Pic, say al
years, and then they moved into another location.
Mr. JENNER. They first were in this apartment in the City Park area?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, that was during the time that she left Mr. Pic, pr*
to that.
Mr. JENNER. Let's start back. You said something about his having lie
her as to his income, did you not?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Then I believe you said he rented an apartment in the Cib
area; is that right?
Mr. JENNER. And she found when they went out there, or whatever occur:
that he was not able to pay the rent on the salary he was making; is that
right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And so she went back to work.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, she remained married to him and lived with him, didn
she?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. All right. They lived in the City Park area how long?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't know how long they lived there. I really don't, ]
was thinking of another time when she lived in the City Park area. That was
when I was referring to.
Mr. JENNER. We can come to that later. Let's just keep this in sequ<
if you don't mind, and we'll cover all of it.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; so then, they rented a house in another sectioi
have forgotten which section that was.
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, yes; and it was during that time when she became pre
Mr. JENNER. Was that when they had the house?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; while they were in this regular home, you know, thai
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Mr. JENNER. Carrollton?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; so then during that time she became pregnant, <
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emember she came over to my house and she told me that she was pregnant,
and asked what she was to do, that Eddie refused to support her. She said
that he refused to give her any money because of the fact that she was
pregnant.
Mr. JENNER. He didn't want any children?
Mrs. MURRET. He didn't .want any children, that's right.
Mr. JENNER. This would have been when they were married approximately
years; would that be about right?
Mrs. MURRET.'About 3 years married, yes, sir; about that.
Mr. JENNER. Were you and Marguerite generally, fairly close?
Mrs. MURRET. We were very close.
Mr. JENNER. Very close?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. When my mother died, she left six children, and we \
all young. My brother was the eldest, and I came next, and Marguerite was
about 3 or 4 years old at that time, I think.
Mr. JENNER. Maybe at this point we should get the names of all your
brothers and sisters. Your father died when?
Mrs. MURRET. My father?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, he died about 33 years ago.
Mr. JENNER. Thirty-three years ago? '
Mrs. MURRET. About that; yes.
Mr. JENNER. That would be approximately 1932; is that about riqht9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Leaving your mother and you children, is that right9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, when did your mother die?
Mrs. MURRET. My mother died about 1911.
Mr. JENNER. Oh, she preceded your father?
Mr. JENNER. So when your father died, you children were then orphansthat right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. At that time, when your father died, you were around 34 y<
of age?
Mrs. MURRET. I was married when my father died. I had three children \
my father died. One child was a baby.
Mr. JENNER. Now, could I have the names of Just your family, that is
yourself, your sisters, and your brothers?
Mrs. MURRET. I have two brothers.
Mr. JENNER. Two brothers?
Mrs. MURRET. And we were four sisters.
Mr. JENNER. All right, now give me the brothers' names.
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Mrs. MURRET. Their names are Charles and John.

Mr. JENNER. Charles Claverie and John Claverie?
Mr. JENNER. Are they alive?
Mrs. MURRET. No; they died while at a very young age. They died 5 mom
apart.
Mr. JENNER. Were they teenagers?
Mrs. MURRET. No. One boy was around possibly 23 years old, and the otl
one was about around 18 years old. The elder one contracted tuberculosis.
That was during World War I. He was in the Navy.
Mr. JENNER. Was that Charles or John?
Mrs. MURRET. Charles, and then John died; he also had TB.
Mr. JENNER. And he died at age 18?
Mrs. MURRET. Around that; yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you had four sisters, you say?
Mrs. MURRET. Including myself.
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Mr. JENNER. Yes; including yourself.
Mr. JENNER. All right. One sister was Marguerite.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr.. JENNER. And yourself, Lillian.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Who else?
Mrs. MURRET. Aminthe.
Mr. JENNER. Is that A-M-I-N-T-H-E?
Mr. JENNER. Is that pronounced Aminthe?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; Aminthe.
Mr. JENNER. That sounds French, is it?
Mrs. MURRET..Yes; it's French.
Mr. JENNER. All right, what's the other sister's name?
Mrs. MURRET. Pearl. She died.
Mr. JENNER. Pearl is dead?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Where is Aminthe living at the present time?
Mrs. MURRET. Aminthe is living in Knoxville.
Mr. JENNER. Knoxville, Term.?
Mrs. MURRET. Tennessee, yes.
Mr. JENNER. I take it Charles was the oldest?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and I was next.
Mr. JENNER. You were next?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; John was next.

Mr. JENNER. John was next?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and then Pearl and then Marguerite, and then Aminth.
It.
Mr. JENNER. igow, let me get those down by number. Number one was Char
number two, that would be you, Lillian.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. John was third.
Mrs. MURRET. John was third, that's right.
Mr. JENNER. Marguerite was fourth?
Mrs. MURRET. Fourth, and Aminthe was fifth.
Mr. JENNER. How about Pearl?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, let's see
that's wrong. Aminthe was sixth.
Mr. JENNER. And Pearl was fifth?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; Pearl was fifth. No; that's still wrong. Aminthe i
sixth. Marguerite was fifth, and Pearl was fourth.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, I've got it. I will recite it now just
that we will have it straight in the record. There was Charles, Lillian,
then John, then Pearl, then Marguerite, and then Aminthe; is that right9
Mr. JENNER. How old was Pearl when she died?
Mrs. MURRET. She died recently. She was about 54.
Mr. JENNER. She was in her fifties?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
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Mr. JENNER. Did she die of natural causes?

Mr. JENNER. I mean, she didn't have tuberculosis, or anythinq like the
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. What was the occupation of your father?
Mrs. MURRET. My father was a motorman for New Orleans Public Service.
worked for them approximately around 40 years.
Mr. JENNER. When you say motorman, do you mean streetcar motorman9
( Mrs. MURRET. Yes. They had those handbrakes at that time, and he takei
the first mule car, I thinkwhen they had mule cars, before they had the
handbrakes on the cars.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, did any of you children have a formal
education, beyond high school?
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Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you all attend and finish high school, other than Job
died when he was 18?
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Mrs. MURRET. No.

Mr. JENNER. Did Charles?
Mrs. MURRET. No. Charles went in the Navy during the wartime. He made
!^jout, oh, I don't know how many trips through Germany, and he was on this
transport when the United States seized the "Frederick Digross." and he
wrote a beautiful history of his trip, and I loaned it out to someone, and I
never did get it back.
Mr. JENNER. How unfortunate.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I never did get it back. It was really everything tl
happened on the trip coming and going from New York to Germany, you know,
back and forth.. He was a gunner.
Mr. JENNER. On the transport, or a battleship or destroyer or cruiser'
Mrs. MURRET. On the transport.
Mr. JENNER. He was a gunner on a transport?
Mrs. MURRET. Transport; yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Now, Marguerite is alive and you are alive and Aminthe is
alive; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right. Aminthe is alive too.
Mr. JENNER. Did you complete high school?
Mrs. MURRET.. I did not. I didn't even go to high school.
Mr. JENNER. You did not?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you complete elementary school?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; I did.
Mr. JENNER. What about Pearl?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't think she went to high school. If she did, it wa:
probably just a year or so. She was married at an early age.
Mr. JENNER. I think you said that Marguerite did complete high school
did she?
Mrs. MURRET. I can't remember if she completed high school or not, bui
may have. I really don't remember that. If she said she did, then she did. I
can't remember because, you see, we were six children, and my mother died,
and my father's sisters lived here and we had some cousins who used to come
over and help us, you know, and of course, I being the eldest, I was pretty
busy with everything in those days. We were just trying to keep the family
together more or less.
You see, my father wouldn't give any of the children up, and so forth,
so they used to come over and help us out and cook, and when I got old
enough I took over, and when the others got old enough they would help out,
and that went on and on. We did pretty well. We were a happy family. We
were singing all the time, and I often say that we were much happier than
the children are today, even though we were very poor. My father was a very
good man. He didn't drink, and he was all for his family. He didn't make
much salary, but we got along all right.
Mr. JENNER. The reason I am inquiring into these things is that all o:
1 assist the Commission in getting the background of the family and
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relatives of Lee Harvey Oswald. The reason I am saying that is I don't want
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Mrs. MURRET. INO; I understand.
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Mr. JENNER. I am trying to find out the family background so that we <
ascertain to what extent all of you were involved with Lee Harvey Oswald.
You understand?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. It's nothing I'm ashamed of. I'm glad I had the li:
did, because I have something to look back to, because we were very happy.
We didn't have anything and we just did the best we could, but we were all
together and we worked together, and we made out all right.
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Mr. JENNER. I understand. Now, was Marguerite happy, or would you sa^
was resentful to any extent about anything, or what was her attitude and
demeanor, as you recall it? Just tell me about her personality.
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't think she was resentful in any way. She was
very pretty child, a very beautiful girl, and she doesn't look today at all
like she used to, you know. You wouldn't recognize her.
Mr. JENNER. I think she's nice looking.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, not like she was years ago. She was a very pretty
g ^ d I don't think that she was resentful of anybody.
Mr
- TENNER. There seems to be some inability on her part to get along
people. That's really what I am driving at. What do you know about that9
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I found that I didn't get along with her myself al
time, because our ideas were different on things, and of course she was a
person who if you disagreed with her or if you expressed an opinion that she
didn't agree with, then she would insist that you were wrong.
Mr. JENNER. How do you and Marguerite get along now?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, we get along very well, if one or the other don't :
nothing. You see, I am forgiving, but she is not.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me more about that. Tell me about when you were gift:
how you got along then.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, when we were girls, we got along.
Mr. JENNER.. Well, did you have to give in in order to get along with
anything like that?.
Mrs. MURRET.;I guess I was too busy taking care of five children to tl
about anything like that. I mean, I didn't realize anything like that. We
did get along pretty well.
Mr. JENNER. Now, let's get to the period after your girlhood, when yoi
your own families. Let's start with during the time of her marriage to
Edward John Pic. Did your relations remain fully cordial, or did you begin
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Mrs. MURRET. Well, I don't think I had to be careful with what I said
^./be if I thought she wasn't right, I would tell her she wasn't right. I
^ - never did feel I had to be afraid to tell her anything, you know, just to
keep peace or something like that. If I thought she was wrong, I would just
tell her why she was wrong, why I thought she was wrong, because there were
things where we just didn't think alike.
Mr. JENNER. You did not?
Mrs. MURRET. No; we didn't think alike, and of course she thought I w
wrong.
Mr. JENNER. She thought you were wrong?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; she did, so then I would, you know, forget about it.
other words, but it didn't seem like she could forget about anything. She
would just, you know, fly off.
Mr. JENNER. You would forgive her, but she wouldn't, was that it?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. This propensity on her part not to forget, was that a sou:
irritation, and did that evidence itself in your avoiding controversy, and
others in your family avoiding controversy, with her?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, no.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, coming to later years, was there any ch<
Did you avoid any difference of opinion with her, or anything that you can
recall of that nature?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, in later years, whatever dissensions we had or wh<
it was that we would have a controversy over, she would just go off, and she
wouldn't write or anything, and we wouldn't hear from her, and so forth, you
know, until something turned up where she probably needed assistance or a
place to stay, or she was coming to New Orleans and for us to put her up and
everything. I never did hold anything in, you know what I mean, thinqs like
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Mr. JENNER. The remainder of your family, your other brothers and si:
I think they remained in and about the New Orleans area; is that right9
Mrs. MURRET. Well, they did for a while.
Mr. JENNER. Well, they all remained in and about New Orleans except f<
your sister Aminthe; isn't that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; she moved. She married and moved to Knoxville.
Mr. JENNER. But the rest of your family stayed here in the New Orlean:
area?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, my brother stayed. They were very young, and of coi
~~\g before I was married, they died, so there wasn't really anyone left,
Jfc.u know, except Marguerite and I. She lived with me when I first got
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married, she stayed with me then.

Mr. JENNER. Marguerite lived with You during your marriage?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; my father and my husband and myself, we all stayed
cogether.
Mr. JENNER. You and your husband and your father and your sister Marg
stayed together?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; we lived on Esplanade and Roman.
Mr. JENNER. What is the business or occupation of your husband?
Mrs. MURRET. What is his occupation?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. MURRET. He's a clerk for, well, he works for different companies.
mostly for Mr. Jackson. He works at different wharves, in other words.
Mr. JENNER. Different what?
Mrs. MURRET. At different wharves on the riverfront. You see, he does]
belong to a union so, therefore, he doesn't stay at one wharf. He transfers
to where they have work, and sometimes if one don't have work, he will work
for someone else.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me what else you know about John Pic.
Mrs. MURRET. What else?
Mr. JENNER. Yes, about Edward John Pic.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, about all I know about him is what she told me. Shc
John wasn't supporting her because, she told me, that she was pregnant and
he refused to give her any money. It was a payday, I think, when she told me
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at, and I spoke to John, but John didn't give me any satisfaction
' whatever. He didn't say a thing, why or anything, what was the reason or
anything.
Mr. JENNER. Did you discuss with him his refusal to support Marguerit*
Mrs. MURRET. No; she left John.
Mr. JENNER. Did she leave him?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, yes. You see, she was that way, very quick. She woulc
things on the spur of the minute, where maybe somebody else would think it
over before acting. I always think over things to give it a chance to cool
off before I do something, but not Marguerite. When she left him she didn't
get a divorce. She just separated. He got half of the furniture, and she
got half of the furniture, I think.
Mr. JENNER. Before they were divorced?
Mrs. MURRET. Before they were divorced; yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now if I may return a minute, you said she was very quick
Mr. JENNER. Would you elaborate on that a little?
Mrs. MURRET..Yes; if I can.
Mr. JENNER. I am trying to find out as much as I can about her person.
Now, when you said she was quick, do I get an inference from that that she
was hasty, or that she was impulsive, or that she would act without thinking
j - \ngs over?
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about anything that happened. She made her decisions very fast without
P^^sleeping on them, not like me. I always try to sleep over a problem if I
, w : /e to make a decision, because a lot of times I will have a different
~ outlook on the thing the next day, but not Marguerite. She would just act
right now regardless of the consequences once she made up her mind. That's
what I
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mean. In other words, when she would find something that she just didn't
like, that was it. She made quick decisions.
Mr. JENNER. Was this a personality trait that she had as a young girl
well as a mature lady?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't remember anything like that before she was marri
mean, as we lived as sisters in the same home; no.
Mr. JENNER. It was after she left the home then, would you say, that :
began to develop that trait, or that you began to detect this quick acting
in her personality?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I would say so.
Mr. JENNER. And you think she failed to think things over, that she d
sleep on them, which was an illustration you gave a few minutes ago, but
^ " - a t she acted quickly when something happened or when she needed to reach a
" aecision, is that it?
Mrs. MURRET..Yes; that's right.
Mr. JENNER. She failed to sleep on something before she acted; is thai
right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; she was too quick. I would have thought things over
before I did them, but she wouldn't.
Mr. JENNER. In other words, she was impulsive? Would you call it thai
Mrs. MURRET. You can call it that if you like.
Mr. JENNER. Well, I am just trying to shape this up into what you rea:
knew about Marguerite and about her personality behavior. I don't mean to
put words in your mouth now, and any time that I show a tendency to do that,
it is inadvertent, and if that does happen I want you to say that that isn't
quite the way you meant it.
Mr. JENNER. I want you to put it in your own words. Do you understate
Mr. JENNER. Would you elaborate now a little more on this personality
characteristic that we have discussed? I am interested in that.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, she went to live in Carrollton, which is in the Ci
Park section, in Carrollton.
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Mr. JENNER. Would you spell that for me, please?
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Mrs. MURRET. C-a-r-r-o-l-l-t-o-n.
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Mr. JENNER. Carrollton?

Mr. JENNER. You will have to forgive my midwest accent, which differs
yours.
Mrs. MURRET. ^Yes; my southern drawl.
Mr. JENNER. Well, I wouldn't call it a southern drawl. You have a disi
Louisiana accent. It's different. The Louisiana accent is not a lazy sort of
thing. It^has a reasonable sharpness of enunciation which you don't find,
say, in Mississippi and some parts of Louisiana. I just came from Dallas,
and they pronounce words with a drawl that's as long as your arm.
I happen to be a midwesterner myself, so my accent is hard, I mean, w
sharp enunciation.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, during that time she was suing Eddie for a divorce
Mr. JENNER. Now, was she working at that time?
Mrs. MURRET. No; she was not working then.
Mr. JENNER. How was she being supported?
Mrs. MURRET. Eddie was supporting her.
Mr. JENNER. Even though they were separated, he was supporting her?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I don't know now if he was supporting her by that 1
or not, but I know during the course of the divorce he had to pay Marguerite
alimony, and he contributed a very fair amount, and he contributed a very
good amount to John Edward, which he received until he was 18 years old.
Mr. JENNER. Well, that was pursuant to a decree of the court, I suppo:
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; of course, during that time, when John was about 2 <
ud, she married Mr. Oswald.
Mr. JENNER. I will get to that in a minute.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
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Mr. JENNER. Did you have the feeling that this experience with Edward
embittered her?
Mrs. MURRET. I really couldn't say. I don't think so, though. She s<
to be pretty happy with Mr. Oswald.
Mr. JENNER. Before we get to Oswald now, did she complain or did she :
any reaction from the divorce or anything, or was she getting along all
right on what he was giving her and what he was giving John?
Mrs. MURRET.iWell, she was getting along on what she was getting from
for herself and John, I think, and she would come over to our home. We lived
on Dumaine Street at that time, but very near there, and I would give her
all the help I could, and they would come over to dinner and things, but
then I remember one time when John was sick, when he was a baby, he'had this
ir infection and she sent for Eddie. She said she was getting tired of
,aying up all night long, and for him to come over and stay a while, and he
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did.
Well, I think they had it out at that time. I don't know about that, 1
_ yway, I think that was about the only time that Eddie saw John, was during
*Tiie time that he had this ear trouble, when he was an infant. She wouldn't
let John see Eddie. For myself, I thought that was cruel, because I don't
believe in that.
Mr. JENNER. Now I am interested in that, Mrs. Murret. You say she re:
to permit her former husband to see the child?
Mrs. MURRET. i Well, now I don't know whether he even asked to see the
or not. I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. Well, you did say without prompting from me that she woul<
permit him to see the child, didn't you?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right, she wouldn't.
Mr. JENNER. I draw the inference from that to mean that he might have
desired to see the child, but she wouldn't permit him, but you don't know
that?
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't know if he asked to see the child or not.
Mr. JENNER. But you do have a recollection that she would not let Edd
the child; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right. John never saw him after that, I don't tl
not after he was a child.
Mr. JENNER. But you said she was opposed to him seeing the child; is 1
right?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, yes; I imagine she was.
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Mr. JENNER. Did anything else occur in this marriage up to the time o~
Marguerite's marriage to Oswald, anything else that you would say was usual
insofar as personality is concerned?
Mrs. MURRET. No; not that I can think of.
Mr. JENNER. You have mentioned a couple of aspects already.
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't know of anything else. That would be about a
know. When she became pregnant and they separated, you know, it was just
probably a day after that, whatever it was, but then she sued for a divorce
and went to live in Carrollton, and the divorce was granted, and she got the
child, and he supported John for 18 years. He sent him a good amount. He
never failed to make one payment, and of course she got alimony for herself.
Of course, living the way we did as children, we knew how to economize
live on a small amount of money, where people who have always had a lot
wouldn't know how to do that.
Mr. JENNER. Of course I gather from what you have saidas a matter o:
fact, you said it, but had you said otherwise I would have been surprised
that your father was rearing six children, and he was a motorman on the
streetcar lines here; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you were necessarily poor people.
Mrs. MURRET. Tes; he made $90 a month. We paid $12 a month house rent
a month house rent
1 forget which and every day he would give us
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each $1 to do the marketing with, and we would have something left out of
^ t h e $1, believe it or not.
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My sister Pearl, when she would have anything left, she would go to tl
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store and buy some material and sit down and make herself a dress by hand,
with what she had left from the $1, because whatever was left out of the $1
he gave us, if we had anything left, it didn't matter. We could buy
anything for ourselves and so forth, that we wanted.
Mr. JENNER. You mean he gave $1 to each of you each day?
Mrs. MURRET. $1 to feed the family; yes sir. We ate beans and rice a]
spinach and vegetables and bananas and things like that, but we didn't have
big household expenses, you see. We didn't have a gas stove. We had a
furnace and things like that. There were no electric lights. In the very
beginning there weren't, and all of those expenses, you see, were out.
I have no bitterness toward my life as a child. In fact, I like to ta.
about it, because we were always so happy. We went skating. We had skates,
and when we were teenagers, we would go skating around Jackson Square and
the French Quarter, and so forth, and my aunt would let us take up her rug
any time we wanted to dance, and she had a piano and we would go over there
^-d dance and play the piano, and I might say that Marguerite was able to do
uxiferent things. She was very entertaining. She could sing very well, not
you know, to be a professional singer, but she had a good voice, and then
when we had a piano that my father bought for $5 she learned to play by ear
on the piano, so we really had a lot of fun.
We cooked our beans and ate our beans, and drank our coffee and ate oi
bread, and the rest of the time we didn't have to do all that children have
to do today.
I find children today are under a great strain. Their parents want th
children to grow up long before their years. They don't let them just take
things in stride any more like they used to. Now, they go to the Blue Room
and places like that, and they apparently think that's the thing to do.
Mr. JENNER. What's the Blue Room?
Mrs. MURRET. That's in the Roosevelt Hotel.
Mr. JENNER. Is it a place of entertainment?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; entertainment, and of course they have to go bowline
they have to be baton twirlers, and they have to go to dances and all kinds
of school events, and it's constantly going and coming all the time, and
they just don't ever seem to relax like they used to.
They have children in my block who never stop. They have poor people
around there, but they never seem to relax. They don't know how to relax
-ôarently. My own children, well, I'm glad they didn't live like that
_ Jier.
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Mr. JENNER. All right now, when John Edward Pic was approximately 2 y<
^ o l d , your sister, Marguerite, married Mr. Oswald; is that right?
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^Mrs. MURRET. That's right. Now, there's something else that happened c
C ci'iat time. She told;me this, and I don't know whether it's true or not, but
I guess it's true because I have never found my sister to lie about
anything.
Mr. JENNER. You never have?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. Have you ever found her to have hallucinations, that thine
didn't actually occur that she thought had occurred, or that she had a
tendency to exaggerate or overstate something?
Mrs. MURRET. I would say, when you put it that way
1 would say if :
expected a person to do what she was thinking and a person didn't do that,
well, then that was the wrong thing.
Mr. JENNER. When that happened, did she get excited about it or angry
show any emotional trait at all?
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't think so. Now, maybe she may have appeared
excited. I don't know if she was excited or not. I just always felt that
she was really too quick. She would fly off too quick, and if you didn't
think the way she .did about anything and you tried to explain to her, you
would Just be wrong. You just couldn't get along with her if something would
come up like that. Of course, it could be you who was at fault, so I'm not
saying that she was at fault every time or anything like that. Maybe she was
âht, but you just couldn't reason with her if she thought she was right,
cuid I don't think anybody can be right all the time.
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Mr. JENNER. Tell me some more about that. You said she was unable to <
along with people. Now, I would like to know more about that, just as you
recall it, any incident that might have happened or anything that you
noticed about Marguerite in connection with any incidents like that.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I mean, if people don't do things right, maybe it':
because they have been doing some wrong things which they had no control
over or something, you see what I mean, but at other times things might
occur where they weren't wrong, and if she didn't see eye to eye with you,
then you couldn't reason with her about it. You couldn't explain things to
her, I mean. If she thought differently, then you were just wrong.
Mr. JENNER. And she was sufficiently vociferous about it?
Mrs. MURRET. She 'was very independent, in other words. She was very
independent. She didn't think she needed anyone at any time, I don't think,
because no matter how much anyone would try to help her or how much they
uld try to do for her, she never thought that anyone was actually helping
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later it seemed like she would just take one little word or something that
p ^ s h e would think was wrong, and we would have these little differences.
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Mr- JENNER. You mean she would fly off the handle, so to speak?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; she would fly off, and go and that was it, and when
would do that you wouldn't hear from her or anything, and all you could do
was just let things ride until she would come to New Orleans again, or
something like that, and then usually she would call or if accidentally I
would meet her on the street or something, and I would go ahead and give her
help again.
Mr. JENNER. It would occur that when she would fly off the handle son*
you wouldn't see her for a while?
Mr. JENNER. Is that about the pattern of what happened when these inc
would arise?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I think so.
Mr. JENNER. Did you make efforts to get along with her, since you wer*
older sister and really head of the family?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I did.
Mr. JENNER. Did you try to mollify her and tell her that she shouldn'1
that way?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, that was all in later years. That was after her maand after my marriage, naturally. She might not like something my children
were doing and so forth, and I told her that I always believed my children,
^ w h a t e v e r they told me. She asked me if I did that, and I said yes; I did,
~ cuia that I had reason to believe them. I had faith in them, and I felt they
would always do the right thing.
Mr. JENNER. She questioned that?
Mrs. MURRET. With me, yes; I mean, about the children.
Mr. JENNER. She questioned you to the extent that she thought it was
unwise, or she didn't get it that you should have faith in your children9
Mrs. MURRET. That's right. She told me at one time, and I can remembeincident that happened if you want me to tell it.
Mr. JENNER. Go ahead and tell me about it.
Mrs. MURRET. The incident was just recently, I may say. My son John \
just married October 5.
Mr. JENNER. Of what year?
Mrs. MURRET. ,This year, 1963this past year.
Mr. JENNER. Your son John?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; well, she was over at the house
Mr. JENNER. Who are you talking about now?
Mrs. MURRET. Marguerite.
Mr. JENNER. All right Marguerite was over at the house, and what happ
Mrs. MURRET. Before he married this girl that he did-marry, there was
young lady that he would invite over to our home quite often, you see, so
**2Tguerite w a s o v e r a t t h e n o u s e at that time.
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Mr. JENNER. You are talking about your house?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; my house; and she was just visiting alone, and it w<
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a rainy day, and John and this girl friendwe were all in the front room,
so to pass the time, they were passing notes to one another, and so the next
day she told me about that, and she said that they were passing notes about
her, so I questioned John about it, and he laughed. He has a very good
disposition, and he laughed and he said, "Well, of all things," and he said,
"We were passing notes telling each other what our bad traits are." He
said, "She would pass me a note telling me about a bad trait I had, and then
I would pass a note back to her and tell her a bad trait that she had." They
were getting a big bang out of that, but Marguerite was under the impression
that they were talking about her, and so I told her, I said, "Well, I
believe John," and she said, "Do you believe everything they tell you?" and
I said, "Yes; I believe what they tell me." Now, this was just last fall
that was.
Mr. JENNER. Was that just this last fall, in October?
Mrs. MURRET. No. Now, John was married in October, but I hadn't seenwas quite a while previous to thatmaybe 2 years.
Mr. JENNER. Oh, this incident occurred then back in 1961, would you s.
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Mrs. MURRET. About the time Lee defected to Russia. Probably about th,
^ u ^ i e , or after.
Mr. JENNER. Was it after 1959? That's when Oswald defected.
Mrs. MURRET. Let's see. I can't remember when that was now.
Mr. JENNER. He was mustered out in September of 1959, and he went to ]
right after that.
Mrs. MURRET. I just can't remember that.
Mr. JENNER. Now, would you tell me about the Oswald marriage9
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I knew Lee Oswald. He was an insurance collector oi
route.
Mr. JENNER. Lee Oswald was an insurance collector?
Mrs. MURRET. For Metropolitan; yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. He collected insurance premiums?
Mrs. MURRET. For the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Mr. JENNER. Was that weekly or monthly, or what?
Mrs. MURRET. Weekly or monthly or yearly, sometimes semiannually, and
forth. He collected policy payments for them. He was a very good insurance
man, I think.
Mr. JENNER. He was an energetic man?
Mrs. MURRET. He was.
Mr. JENNER. When you first knew him, he was married; is that right9
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Mrs. MURRET. No; he was already divorced from his wife when he colled
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Mr. JENNER. He was already divorced from his wife?

Mr. JENNER. Had he had any children of that marriage?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't think he did.
Mr. JENNER. What is your recollection as to how Lee Oswald and Margue:
became acquainted?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I guess he just liked Marguerite enough to marry to
and I believe Oswald was a CatholicI'm not too sure of thatand
Marguerite was a Lutheran, so he had to leave his church, naturally.
Mr. JENNER. He had to leave the church?
Mrs. MURRET. Because he was divorced; yes. He was not recognized in 1
Catholic church. He couldn't receive the sacraments, in other words. He
could go to mass.
Mr. JENNER. He happened to be Catholic?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Are you Catholic?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I am.
Mr. JENNER. All right. So am I, and I just wondered if you were. G
ahead.
Mrs. MURRET. So they were married in a Lutheran Church, Lee Oswald an<
Marguerite. They were married at the Lutheran Church on Canal Street.
Mr. JENNER. I was going to ask you what your family was by way of rel
You are Catholic.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
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Mr. JENNER. Have you always been Catholic?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, not always. I wasn't always a Catholic. My fatto
Catholic, and my mother was a Lutheran, and we were baptized in the Lutheran
religion.
Mr. JENNER. You were baptized in the Lutheran religion?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and my father, who was Catholic, he always saw that
went to Sunday school.
Mr. JENNER. He would see to it that you went to the Lutheran Sunday s<
to the Lutheran church?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; he did. I always thought of my father as St. Joseph
don't know why, but I guess it was because he was so close to us children.
He would take us on Christmas eve night over to church, and he probably did
a lot better than a lot of women do today with a family.
Mr. JENNER. Well, he was undoubtedly quite a tolerant man then.
Mrs. MJRRET. Oh, yes.
Mr. JENNER. Your mother had begun to rear her children as Lutherans, :
xinued that?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; he did.

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Mr. JENNER. He didn't attempt to induce any of you to become converte
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Mrs. MURRET. No. John Pic
rather, Eddie Pic was a Lutheran too. \
% îe marriage to Lee Oswald, she seemed to be happy. He had everything she
wanted. They lived on Taft Place in the City Park section, and then after
that they built a home on Alvar Street. That was a new section then. Right
now it looks awful, but at that time it was a growing section, and this was
a new house, a little single house right opposite a school, and it was a
very nice place.
Mr. JENNER. What's the name of the school?
Mrs. MURRET. William T. Frantz, they call it.
Mr. JENNER. How do you spell Frantz?
Mrs. MURRET. F-R-A-N-T-Z, I think it is.
Mr. JENNER. There were two children born of that marriage; is that ri
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; two children, Robert, and then Lee was born afl
his father died.
Mr. JENNER. Well, his father died in August 1939, and Lee was born on
October 18, 1939, about 2 months after; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. Lee Oswald wanted to adopt John Edward, but my sist*
wouldn't hear to an adoption by him, because she said he had a father, and
she was receiving this allotment for him from him, and she didn't want to
change his name.
Mr. JENNER. When she married Lee Oswald, I assume her alimony terminal
_ did it?
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Mrs. MURRET. I think so, but John still received his.
Mr. JENNER. The child support continued?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, yes; now, what came in between there is what I start*
tell you, about John Pic. That was after she married Oswald. There was a
colored girl working in the grocery store, and John was in there he was
about 2 or a little over 2 at the time, and this young woman was in the
store
Mr. JENNER. Let me interrupt you there a moment. When you say John, a"
referring to John Pic?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that was the Pic child, and this colored woman was
working in the store you see, Marguerite didn't have any children then,
because she was just recently married or something, so this young woman said
to Johnhe was just a baby, and she said, "You're a cute little boy.
What's your name?" And he said, "My name is John Edward Pit," like a child
will do, drawing it out so that everybody could hear it, and she asked this
colored girl, "Whose child is this?" and the colored girl told her, "That's
Mrs. Oswald's boy," so that's how that happened. I gather that she'didn't '
know anything about the Pic child, and so forth, so anyway, this young woman
went home and she told her mother-that a very strange thing had happened in
the grocery store, and she said there was a darling lithe child in there,
^nd she asked him his name and he said he was John Edward Pic, and she said,
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married Eddie, and Eddie didn't tell her that he had a child, or that he was
^rnarried or anything, and then this marriage
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was annulled an aunt of mine saw the annullment in the paper, because she
used to read everything in the paper, you know, and she's the one who knew
about it. My sister did tell me the story about that.
Mr. JENNER. That marriage was a happy marriage, was it?
Mrs. MURRET. The Oswald marriage? '
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. MURRET. I think so, as far as I know. I mean, I didn't get to go
there very often, but we would visit. I had a lot of children, and naturally
I had to take care of them, and we never did have anything, and of course
they had a car and everything, and at times they would drop by, but we
didn't visit too often.
Mr. JENNER. They had a car and they had a home?
Mrs. MURRET. What's that?
Mr. JENNER. They had an automobile, you say, and they also had their <
home on Alvar Street?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, they were buying the home on Alvar Street, and dur
g ^ - M t time^was when Mr. Oswald was cutting the grass, I think, and he took a
- oCN/ere pain in his arm, and she gave him some aspirin, and in the meantime
she called the doctor, and he said that was the right thing to do, to give
him aspirin and to rub his arm, so then it seemed like he got worse, and
while she was calling the doctor to come out, he just toppled over.
Of course, the house wasn't paid for, and it seems like they had insu
on their house that Lee never did take care of, or whatever it was, and I
think if they had done that, I think they would have been safe in the house,
but he neglected to do that, so they didn't have no insurance on the house '
or whatever it was.
Then she lived in the house, I think, over 2 years while Lee was a bal
this house, and then she sold it. I think she sold it, and she bought
another smaller house somewhere in that area. I don't remember where, and
then she sold that.
Mr. JENNER.. Well, hold that for a minute. We will get to that lateWhen Mr. Oswald had his heart attack and died in August of 1939, did your
sister return to work?
Mrs. MURRET. Not right away.
Mr. JENNER. Not right away?
Mrs. MURRET. No; I think Lee was around 3 years old when she returned
work. I never did ask her, you know anything about the insurance, but he
-*5>bably had a good amount of insurance on himself, being an insurance man
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Mr. JENNER. Well, was that your impression, anyhow, that she did retu:
work after a period of about 3 years?
Mrs. MURRET. About 3 years; yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. That would have been around 1942, approximately; is that :
Mrs. MURRET. I guess so. Now, I can't recollect what happened with Let
after that, when she went to work, or where she worked. I know I took care
of Lee when he was that age.
Mr. JENNER. All right, I would like for you to tell me about that.
Mrs. MURRET. When Lee was a very small child?
Mr. JENNER. Around that period when he was 3 years old, during that 3period, was that during the period you took care of him?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that's when I took care of him. I offered to take a
Lee former. It seemed like he wasI don't know how that came along, but it
seems like there was someone else, I think, some lady and her husbandI
couldn't tell you who they were or anything like that, but they were crazy
about the child. She had told me about that and so forth, but then I met her
in town one day and she was telling me how they felt about the child, but I
told her, I said, "Well, I'll keep lee for a while, you know, as long as I
could." I offered to keep Lee at an age when he was a very beautiful child.
Now, I wouldn't say he was smarter than any other child his age. He might
have been smarter than some 3-year-olds and so forth, but he was really a
cute child, very friendly, and so I kept him and I would take him to town,
and when I
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would he would have on one of these little sailor suits, and he really
looked cute, and he would holler, "Hi," to everybody, and people in town
would stop me and say, "What an adorable child he is," and so forth, and he
was always so friendly, and, of course, I did the best I could with him. The
children at home liked him. John Edward and Robert are the same age as my
fourth and fifth children, soin other words, I had five children in 7
years, making them all around the same age, from 7 to 19 months apart, so,
of course, everybody was of school age, grammar school. I had to get my own
five children ready;for school, and I didn't have any help on that and it
kept me pretty busy, and that's why I guess it was that Lee started slipping
out of the house in his nightclothes and going down the block and sitting
down in somebody's kitchen. He could slip out like nobody's business. You
could have everything locked in the house, and he would still get out. We
lived in a basement house, and we had gates up and everything, but he "would
still get out.
Mr. JENNER. What do you mean by a basement house?
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Mrs. MURRET. Oh, that's one that's raised off the ground. The house h<
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lot of people make into living quarters, underneath.

Mr. JENNER. All right. He was 3 years old when he was living with you
ir house, and at that time she had gone back to work; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. She had gone back to work; yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. What sort of work did she do?
Mrs. MURRET. She was a saleswoman. I think she worked in quite a few <
stores in town.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. I assume her earnings were small?
Mr. JENNER. I assume her earnings were small?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, yes; they don't pay too much.
Mr. JENNER. What did she do with John Edward and Robert at this time?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, at that time John Edward and Robert were placed in
home across the river some place. I wouldn't know the name of the home. I
visited with her one time, and she didn't like it too much, and so she took
them because they weren't keeping their clothes clean and so forth. The
children didn't look the way she wanted them to, and she put them in the
Bethlehem home. That's a Lutheran home.
Mr. JENNER. Is the Bethlehem home for Lutheran orphans?
Mrs. MURRET. No; it's not exactly an orphanage. It's for children wh<
one parent.
Mr. JENNER. I think we will take a recess now for lunch, and we can }
^LÛc here at 2 o'clock.
(Whereupon the proceeding was recessed.)
TESTIMONY OF MRS. LILLIAN MURRET RESUMED
The proceeding reconvened at 2 p.m.
Mr. JENNER. As I understand it now, Mrs. Murret, Marguerite maintain
house for approximately 2 or 3 years and reared the boy there and did not
work, and at the end of that period of .time, she went to work, and she
lodged Lee with you and your husband and your children; is that right9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And that extended over a period of how long? How long did
have him?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, I think it was pretty near the time that she married
Ekdahl. I think she married him about that time.
Mr. JENNER. That was 1948; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. It might have been. Now, it might have been a little bef<
she married Ekdahl. I really can't renember that. I really didn't know Mr.
Ekdahl. I met him one time. Now, I am trying to orient myself.
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Mr. JENNER. That's all right; take your time. Do you recall about wto
<&. *at was?
Mrs. MURRET. iWhen she married Mr. Ekdahl?
Mr. JENNER. No; that you had the care of Lee in your home.
Mrs. MURRET. That I had what?
Mr. JENNER. When lee came to live with you temporarily; when was that'
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, when he was about 3 years old.
Mr. JENNER. That would have been about 1942; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And he stayed with you until about the time that Margueril
married Mr. Ekdahl; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Around that time, or a little before. She might have taJ
him a little bit before, a few months before she married Ekdahl. I don't
recall exactly how that was now.
Mr. JENNER. She married Ekdahl in 1948; so at that time Lee would hav
9 years old; isn't that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that's right. Well, then I didn't have Lee that loi
not from 3 years old. He wasn't with me all that time.
Mr. JENNER. How long do you think it was that you had Lee in your hom*
that occasion?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I might have had Lee about 2 years.
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Mr. JENNER. Would that have been from 1942 to 1943, or 1944; somewher*
^^^LxxCre?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes sir.
Mr. JENNER. He was 3 years old when he came with you; is that right9
Mr. JENNER. He was 3 years old?
Mrs. MURRET. About 3; yes.
Mr. JENNER. When he came with you?
Mr. JENNER. How old was he when he left?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, he was about 5 or pretty near that age, when he le
Mr. JENNER. Well, that keys in with this information I have. When he
about 5 years old, did he join his brothers out at the Bethlehem orphanage9
Mrs. MURRET. He did. He was out there for a while.
Mr. JENNER. Did he come from your home to the orphanage?
Mrs. MURRET. I really don't know that.
Mr. JENNER. I thought there might have been some incident as to why to
placed in the orphanage with his two brothers.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, the incident could have been
1 don't know if it \
that or not, but maybe it was just that I couldn't take care of him any
more, or something like that; I don't know.
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Mr. JENNER. But you do have a sufficient recollection that he was aboi
years old?
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Mrs. MURRET. About; yes.
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Mr. JENNER. When he left your home?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you do remember Lee being lodged at the Bethlehem orp]
home with his two brothers, do you?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you visit the boys out there at any time?
Mr. MURRET. I visited out there with Marguerite.
Mr. JENNER. And that was on what; a weekend?
Mrs. MURRET. I think it was. They had a party for the home out there,
the children themselves seemed to be very happy out there. It's an old
place, but a very nice place, and it was run by a man and his wife. The
children were included in everything, and the doors were kept open. In other
words, the children were allowed to go out and play marbles on the outside,
and they
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went to school, you know, to school in that neighborhood. I mean they
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M ^ w e r e n t confined or shut in, and they seemed to have a good program of
- ^ ^ c i p l i n e . Even though they could go out and play in the immediate area,
they would come in when the bell rang for supper, but I mean they were not
closed in or kept locked up or anything. She also contributed to that home,
I think. I don't think they would keep those boys there free.
Mr. JENNER. You're right. In the meantime she was working; is that r
Mrs. MURRET. What was that?
Mr. JENNER. She was working?
Mrs. MURRET. She was working; yes.
Mr. JENNER. In some department store or something like that here in N<
Orleans?
Mrs. MURRET. She at one time, but I don't know whether this was the t
,but she worked at a hosiery shop on Canal Street. It might have been one of
these Jean'swhat they call Jean's Hosiery Shop over there on Canal Street.
In fact, she was manager of that store at the time, as I recall, this
hosiery store where she worked. I don't know what happened after she left
that place. That was the time she married Ekdahl, in between there, and she
left New Orleans and went to Texas.
Mr. JENNER. Do you know how long she had known Lee Oswaldthat is, tl
father of Lee Harvey Oswaldbefore they were married?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, John Edward was 2 years old when she married him,
^Vjured she must have known him about a year or more. Myself, I knew him,
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ause he collected at my house, but I don't know whether she knew him at
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that time or not.

Mr. JENNER. Do you know whether she knew him before she and her husbau
"*ard John Pic, separated?
Mrs. MURRET. I doubt it.
Mr. JENNER. Do you know whether she knew him during the period of the
separation and before the divorce?
Mrs. MURRET. That must have been it. She must have known him during tl
time.
Mr. JENNER. Give me your reaction to Mr. Oswald a little more, if you
What kind of man was he?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, he was a very outward man, a man that smiled a lot
might say. He smiled a lot, and he seemed aggressive.
Mr. JENNER. Would you say he was energetic?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, yes; very much. He was a good worker for Metropolitan
of their top salesmen.
Mr. JENNER. And he was an outgoing person, you say?
Mrs. MURRET. He seemed to be.
Mr. JENNER. Would you call him an extrovert?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; of course, I don't know what happened at home. I cai
tell you from what I noticed when I saw him, you know, but he seemed to be
very aggressive and energetic, and they seemed to be getting along all
right, so far as I could tell.
Mr. JENNER. During that period of time of her marriage to Lee Oswald,
ra^, HnH you have much contact with your sister Marguerite?
Mrs. MURRET. No; not very much. Like I said, I had five children myself,
and we didn't have a car; so we stayed at home a lot. Mr. Murret is a man
who don't care to visit relatives too much, and we didn't visit them. They
came over when they would be out riding around; in other words, they might
stop by or something like that, but we didn't do much visiting.
Mr. JENNER. Your husband's given name is Charles F.; is'that riqht9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; they call him "Dutz."
Mr. JENNER. That's his nickname?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Is that D-u-t-z?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and they put it in the telephone book that way, bec<
he was in the fight game years ago. He managed some fighters, and they have
a lot of contact with sportswriters, and they knew him by the name of
"Dutz,"
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so that's why he went and put it in the telephone book, rather than Charles
-^that they would know who he was, I guess.
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Mr. JENNER. Does he still use that name?
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Mr. JENNER. Is your telephone listed in that name?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that's what I said. It's still listed that way. His
1 âve him that nickname when he was a small child, and I always knew him by
the name of "Dutz." I never call him anything else but that, but his family
always called him Charles.
Mr. JENNER. What business is he in?
Mr. JENNER. What is your husband's business again?
Mrs. MURRET. He works as a clerk.
Mr. JENNER. Is there anything else you can remember about Lee Oswald,
father of Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't remember anything else; no. I didn't know anythii
about him at all other than being an insurance clerk and coming around the
house to collect insurance. He sort of maybe seemed to be a little forward
maybe, I thought, but, like a lot of insurance men, maybe it helps on the
debits, you know.
Mr. JENNER. He was aggressive in collecting the accounts; do you mean'
Mrs. MURRET. lYes.
Mr. JENNER. But not forward in any other respect?
Mrs. MURRET. No; not that I know of.
Mr. JENNER. I mean he was a gentleman?
Mrs. MURRET. As far as I know.
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Mr. JENNER. Do you know anything about his family?
Mrs. MURRET. I know nothing about the Oswald family. I only met one b
who was the godfather of Lee little Lee Oswald, you knowand I think his
name was Harvey, maybe. I wouldn't be sure about that.
Mr. JENNER. Harvey?
Mrs. MURRET. I believe that's what it was, but that's about all I knoi
about the Oswald family. He's the only one I knew or ever saw.
Mr. JENNER. Do you know where Harvey Oswald is now?
Mrs. MURRET. He's dead now. I just saw him one time, and that was aft*
was born. He came over to the house, and I think they were friendly with
Marguerite and all, but all of a sudden there was no more friendship. I
don't know why.
Mr. JENNER. Did this friendship terminate while the marriage still ex
or was it afterward?
Mrs. MURRET. I think afterward. I don't know whether there was any
friendship with the Oswald family during this marriage or not. I couldn't
say. She never spoke about it, but I do know, after the death of the
brother, they had some dissension about something. I don't know what, but
that ended that friendship with the Oswalds.
Mr. JENNER. As far as you know or were advised, that was never repair*
it?
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Mrs. MURRET. I don't think so.
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Mr. JENNER. Your sister married Mr. Ekdahl?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes.

Mr. JENNER. And your recollection of that event is what?
Mrs. MURRET. .What do you mean?
Mr. JENNER. What do you remember about that incident?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I don't know anything about the marriage at all, 01
than what you have told me about it. I only met Mr. Ekdahl one time, and
they were about to. be married about that time it seems like, and they say
that Mr. Ekdahl was a sick man and had a bad heart, and he was a little
older than she was, and she didn't seem very enthusiastic about marrying Mr.
Ekdahl, and that's when his sister came down here and she liked Marguerite a
lot, and she said, "Why don't you go ahead and marry him? He is lonesome,"
and so forth, so she just decided, I guess, to marry Ed.
Mr. JENNER. His name was Edward Ekdahl?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; his name was Edward Ekdahl.
Mr. JENNER. And it is your best recollection that you met him once be
the marriage?
Mrs. MURRET. That's all I saw him; yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Had your sister talked to you about him prior to the marr:
Mrs. MURRET. She spoke to me about him, I think. He was a high salari*
- nicui, that I know, and he did research work for Texas Electric, I think, and
of course I don't think things worked out maybe too well for them, I mean,
about his way of giving her money and so forth.
I guess she thought things would be different after their marriage. Y<
see, he was sort of tight, I think, with his money. She would go to the
grocery store, but he would hold the money, and of course she didn't like
that ^part of it, I guess you know, so then she went around with Mr. Ekdahl
in his travels for the company and she also took Lee with her wherever she
had to go. And then Lee became of school age, and she had these other two
boys in the Chamberlin-Hunt College in Mississippi.
Mr. JENNER Is that a military school?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and it's a high-priced military school, with beauti
uniforms and so forth, and she used her own money for these boys to go to
military school. Mr. Ekdahl didn't take on that responsibility. He didn't
take on any obligation like that at all, as far as I know. She said he
didn't even take Lee as an obligation.
Now, whether this was all her idea or not, I don't know, because she
very independent about things. I don't know, but that's the way I understood
it was, so then anyway, lee traveled with her all over until he became of
school age.
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During the summertime she rented a place at Covington so that she cou
g^. a her other two boys with her on vacation.
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Mr. JENNER. Where is Covington?

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Mrs. MURRET. Covington is right out of New Orleans, not too far away,
^ 4 causeway. People more or less use it as a summer resort, and they rent
^ xiomes there, just like at Biloxi and Gulfport, and so forth.
Mr. JENNER. Oh, it's off in that direction?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; so she rented a place over there, and she stayed tto
with the boys in the summer.
Mr. JENNER. Now, this was when she was married to Ekdahl; is that rig]
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; she was married to Ekdahl then.
Mr. JENNER. Did they visit you once in a while?
Mrs. MURRET. With Mr. Ekdahl?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. MURRET. No; never. She was living in Texas at that time, but thi:
during the summer that she stayed at Covington.
Mr. JENNER. Where was Mr. Ekdahl during the summer when she was at
Covington?
Mrs. MURRET. Mr. Ekdahl was traveling for the company, but she couldn
travel with him because she had the boys during vacation time, and then Lee
became of school age and he had to go to school. Now, at that time houses
were hard to get, and even hotel rooms, I mean, when you were traveling and
so forth, so she agreed to stay over in Covington and send Lee to school in
Covington rather than go back to Texas. Now, whether she stayed with Lee
when he went to school or not, I don't know.
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The next I heard, well, she was back in Texas. Now, I don't know aboui
uidt, how that came about, but she had this duplex. Now, if she had bought
this duplex or not at one time herself, I don't know, but she had spoke
something about buying a duplex.
Mrs. MURRET. No; in Texas, Fort Worth. So it seems like this is what :
told me; that's how I knew so much of her family life, from what she told
me. So then, she told me that when they left Covington, they went back to
Texas to this duplex, and now, she lived either in the upper or lower part
of this duplex, but anyway, one morning she was outside in the yard and this
lady who lived either in the upper or lower, whichever way it was, came out
into the yard and my sister
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introduced herself as Mrs. Ekdahl, and this lady answered instead, "You are
not the Mrs. Ekdahl that I know."
Well, you can put two and two together there. Now, I am only repeatin<
she told me, so then she got sort of scouting around, you know what I mean
-J she found out different things around there, and she accused him of
^ ^ng someone in this house while she was over in Covington. So then she
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got after him and he denied everything about that, so then she said, "Well,"
and she just kept eyeing up the situation, you know, and one time she found
^ lething in his pockets. He had a train ticket to go on one of his trips,
aild she called the place and found out that he had gotten two tickets, so
she told him that she would drive him to the train station, and he insisted
that she not drive him, that he could go alone, but she said, well, no, she
wanted to take him, and he said, no, that that would be too much trouble and
silly. Well, anyway, I think she did drive him there, and when they got to
the train station, I think she thought that whoever it was holding the other
ticket had already picked it up, this other ticket, and was already on the
tram, so Mr. Ekdahl picked up his ticket and went on, and I guess she
always thought he wasn't true to her after that, you see, so she said one
night she followed Mr. Ekdahl
Mr. JENNER. Who?
Mrs. MURRET. She did in her car, or somebody's car, and John, and I d
know if it was one of John's friends or Robert's, but anyway they followed
Mr. Ekdahl, and they saw him go into this house, and she waited a few
minutes on the outside, and then she had one of the boys run up the steps,
and he hollered, "Western Union," and when he hollered, "Western Union,"
this woman opened the door, and when she opened the door, pushed the door
back, Mr. Ekdahl was sitting in the living room. When he left her, he was
fully dressed, but his coat and tie and shirt was off, and he had his
athletic^shirt on. He had his coat and top shirt off and so forth, and he
" j sitting in there, so she questioned him about that, and he said he was
Liiere on business, which was absurd, because you know you don't disrobe
yourself on business, so that's what started off the Ekdahl case, and then
of course she wanted to get a divorce from him right away, you see, and
that's why I say she's quick, you see, because I would not have gotten a
divorce. I would have got a separation, because he was making a big salary,
and so forth, but anyway, she wanted a divorce it seemed like, but it seemed
like he had connections and he must have gone to get the divorce before she
could get it, or whatever it was. She had gone to her pastor and told her
pastor about it, and her pastor told her that if she would press this case
against Ekdahl, that he would have a heart attack and that would make her a
murderer, that she would be the cause of him dying, so he was in the
hospital, I think, so she went to the hospital to see him, and I think they
had a roarup there at the hospital. I don't know what that was all about
because, you see, I don't know anything about all of that except what she
told me. So then she got a divorce from Mr. Ekdahl, and she settled for not
too very much and it wasn't very long before Mr. Ekdahl died, so that was
the end of the Ekdahl affair.
Mr. JFM4ER. All right. Now, let me take you back to the beginning now
few moments, if you will. We had Lee over at the Bethlehem orphanage after
he left the house; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, s i r /
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until she married Mr. Ekdahl; is that right?

Mrs. MURRET. Well, he was in the home awhile first. I mean, he was at
.se, I would say, between 1 1/2 and 2 years, and then I couldn't keep him
cuiy more. I guess there must have been some dissension or something.
Mr. JENNER. What kind of dissension?
Mrs. MURRET. She got angry or something, and I might have told her to
her child, you know, or whatever it was, so she put him in with the other
two boys in the home then.
Mr. JENNER. She was quick tempered, would you say?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, that's what I mean; yes.
Mr. JENNER. She would flare up in a moment; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; you see, she was always right. She couldn't take an;
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from anybody, in other words, or you might say she was not reasonable, and
especially in some things that are right, because you can keep doing and
doing and doing, but then you get to the point where the other party never
seems to be doing anything.
Mr. JENNER. She didn't seem to exhibit a full measure of appreciation
was warranted, is that what you mean?
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Mrs. MURRET. Well, I didn't keep the child for anything like that. I ]
una for himself and for the love of God, and so forth, and we liked the
child, but of course we had our own obligation with our own children, and
this was her life. She made her own life.
Of course, I do say that maybe she made it, and then she didn't make
because you see, it's just the way things happened. Now, whether she was the
cause of these things happening or not, I don't know, but she seemed to be a
victim of all these circumstances.
Mr. JENNER. But they kept repeating themselves, a number of them; isn
that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; they kept coming along; that's right.
Mr. JENNER. Now, she then married Mr. Ekdahl; is that right9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you had met him only once, I believe you said9
Mrs. MURRET. Once; that's right.
Mr. JENNER. Were you at the wedding?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, no; I didn't go to the wedding. They were married in
Texas.
Mr. JENNER. Were you advised that she was about to marry him9
Mrs. MURRET. I don't think I knew that she was about to marry him- no
I just received a picture of her and Ekdahl on their wedding trip, and she '
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O.K., you know.

Mr. JENNER. Were they married here in New Orleans, or were they marri*
y
as?
Mrs. MURRET. I imagine they were married in Texas. Mr. Ekdahl was a
divorced man. I guess he was a divorced man. He had to he. I don't know, but
I don't think he could get married without being divorced. He had a son.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; I know he did, and his people were Boston people, wethey not?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. I know she met his sister. It was her, his sister, 1
sort of persuaded her that she ought to go ahead and marry him. She went up
to see them, I think.
Mr. JENNER. In Boston?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You think his sister influenced her a lot9
Mr. JENNER. But she was somewhat disappointed in Mr. Ekdahl insofar a:
handling of the family funds was concerned; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I imagine she was.
Mr. JENNER. Well, I don't want you to imagine. What impression did yoi
from what she said to you?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, she just said that she thought things would be
different, that since he was a high-salaried man, she didn't think she would
have the kind of life she was living, like pinching pennies, and having to
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;^ him for everything that she wanted. I think she was under the impression
Lucie he would give her so much, or I don't know anything about the amounts,
you know, but that's what I gathered from what she told me.
Mr. JENNER All right. Now, I think you said that he did not assume
responsibility for any of the three children; is that right9
Mrs. MURRET. That's what she said.
Mr. JENNER. And she told you when she placed her two boys, John and R<
in the military school, what was the name of that?
Mrs. MURRET. Chamberlin-Hunt Academy.
Mr. JENNER. That she was assuming the responsibility of paying their \
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; she did. She always had a lot of character. That I <
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say about her, you know, for a woman alone. She would have never done
anything she wasn't supposed to do, even though she was in dire
circumstances, and so forth, but one thing would come on like that, and she
would just act up very quickly, like I told you, if she didn't like
something happening or something you did or said, something like that Of
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^ s e , there are always two sides to every story, and I don't knew the
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Mr. JENNER. Would you say that Lee lived with you from about 1939 to :
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I guess it was along in there. It's hard to remembe:
se dates exactly, that's been so long ago.
Mr. JENNER. Did he live at any time at 1010 Bartholomew Street in New
Orleans?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; they did. That's the house I was trying to recoiled
she bought, I think, after she left this Alvar Street residence. She bought
this house on Bartholomew.
Mr. JENNER. And she lived there about a year; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't know how long she lived there.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall her living at 2136 Broadway in New Orleans9
Mrs. MURRET. What street?
Mr. JENNER. Broadway.
Mr. JENNER. 2136 Broadway?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. That was just a month, about the middle of August to aboui
10th of September 1942.
Mrs. MURRET. "I know nothing of that.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall their residing at 227 Atlantic Avenue in Al<
Mrs. MURRET. No, I don't. That's possibly where the boys were over tto
Is that an orphanage, or whatever it was?
Mr. JENNER. I don't know. Is there an orphanage over at Alqiers9
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. That's not the Bethlehem place, is it9
Mrs. MURRET. No, I don't know what orphanage that was, but they were <
there in Algiers, and then they were transferred from Algiers to Bethlehem
down here in New Orleans.
Mr. JENNER. Where is Bethlehem located, this Bethlehem institution9
Mrs. MURRET. It's way down off of St. Claude Street somewhere, way to
the other end of town. I don't think it's there any more. It could be. It
was a very old place.
Mr. JENNER. I have said that she married Mr. Ekdahl in 1948 I am afr
am wrong about that. I think that was 1945 that she married him, which
squares more with your recollection.
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes, I think so, because that's what I thought. Lee was ,
5, and you had him down as 8, and I couldn't recollect having him at 8 years
old.
Mr. JENNER. You were right in your recollection. Now, what town in T<
was it that they moved to?
Mrs. MURRET. I think it was Fort Worth.
Mr. JENNER. They moved to Fort Worth?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, I think so.
Mr. JENNER. Was that address 4801 Victor? Does that refresh your
collection on that?
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Mrs. MURRET. Well, she lived a couple of places, you know. Do you meai
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after she married Mr. Ekdahl and moves to Texas, to Fort Worth?
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Mr. JENNER. Yes.
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Mrs. MURRET. I don't know the address at that time. I just don't reco
that address, because she lived in some other places too. I really don't
know.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall whether she ever lived in Dallas?
Mrs. MURRET. I never knew she lived in Dallas.
Mr. JENNER. Is the town of Benbrook, Tex., familiar to you?
Mrs. MURRET. No; you see, I hadn't heard, from her. You see, she went
New York to Texas. That was about 2 years later, I think. I just don't know
that I remember her saying that she bought some property some place in
Texas, and she couldn't keep it up, and she probably mortgaged it to this
man on a
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rental basis, or something like that, and they had some trouble with that; I
don't know. Don't you get tired listening to this merry-go-round?
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Murret, lawyers don't get tired.
Mrs. MURRET. It would be too bad if you did.
Mr. JENNER. We are under the impression that they moved to Dallas, Te;
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3t and lived on Victor Street, 4801 Victor Street, in 1945 up until 1946,
and then they moved to Fort Worth.
Mrs. MURRET. Oh.
Mr. JENNER. I am not attempting to give you information, now; I am ju:
asking if you recall that, or if you ever knew that?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, that could be; yes, sir; but I thought they had goi
Fort Worth myself. That's what I thought.
Mr. JENNER. You didn't hear much from her during that time, did you?
Mrs. MURRET. No; during those years I didn't hear much from her. Mayb
would send a card or a picture or something like that, but we didn't
correspond.
Mr. JENNER. You say she sent you a picture of the house where she was
living with Mr. Ekdahl?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and she sent me a picture of herself and the boys a:
Christmas time, and that's about all.
Mr. JENNER. Do you have any pictures of the family, album pictures or
snapshots of Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mrs. MURRET. Of Lee Harvey?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Or Mr. Ekdahl.
I Mrs. MURRET. I have her picture with Mr. Ekdahl when they were marrie
1&Mr. JENNER. I wonder if you would give that to your husband and let h:
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bring that in the morning when he comes in?
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Mrs. MURRET. The snapshot?
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Mr. JENNER. Yes; and will you look hard and see if you have any other
pictures with your children taken when they were small with Lee, and that
sort of thing? (The snapshot of Mr. and Mrs. Ekdahl was produced by Mrs.
Murret and was marked and admitted in evidence on her affidavit as Lillian
Murret Exhibit No. 1.)
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't have any of my children with Lee when he wa:
living with us. I have Mr. and Mrs. Ekdahl. She sent that picture, where she
wrote on it, "Happily married." Like I say, I can't recollect her living in
Dallas, in that home in Dallas. I always thought it was Fort Worth.
Mr. JENNER. It appears now that at least during or sometime in 1946, :
lived in Covington, La., at 600 West 24th Street, and at 311 Vermont Street
in Covington. Now, your recollection of that is that this was in the summer
of 1946; is that right?
Mr. JENNER. And she brought her three boys together with her there; i:
right?
Mr. JENNER. At this time, her husband Ekdahl had not joined her, had ]
Mrs. MURRET. Not that I know of. I assume he was out on his business,
know, while they were spending the summer over there. He came in
_ periodically every 2 weeks, or every week, or whatever it was; I don't know.
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Mr. JENNER. It was your impression that he was a research man for whai
company?
Mrs. MURRET. A sick man?
Mr. JENNER. No; a research man.
Mrs. MURRET. He did research for Texas Electric, and she told me his :
was over $1,000 a month.
Mr. JENNER. Which is a substantial amount of money; right?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, I imagine so, but sometimes you can get along on $25(
better than $1,000.
Mr. JENNER. That's right. Now, let me delve into that a little bit. I:
was $1,000 a month, she at that time regarded it as a very substantial
income; is that right?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you people as well would regard that as a substantial
income; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. We people?
Mr. JENNER. Yes, the Murret family.
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Mrs. MURRET. My family?
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Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; we would think we were millionaires if we had 1
> I money, but still I think we always did a lot with our money. Our main
reason was for our family. That's why my husband wanted to educate his
children. That was his main reason, because he knew how tough it is in the
outside world, so he wanted them at least to have that much. Of course,
these are children who liked to go to school and who liked to study. You
take this girl out there, she is studying all the time.
Mr. JENNER. You mean your daughter who is outside waiting for you now'
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes, sir; she is still studying, and Gene he is still
studying. Like I said before, we all worked together to see that everybody
got his chance. John was a top athlete in school, and then he went to St.
Louis U.
Mr. JENNER. St. Louis?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; he was one of the few boys that ever got a scholars)
St. Louis U. for basketball, but he only went there for about a year, and
they wanted him to play at Loyola, and they kept after him when he came here
on a visit, so he left St. Louis and went to Loyola.
Mr. JENNER. Loyola of Chicago?
Mrs. MURRET. No; Loyola of New Orleans.
Mr. JENNER. I see.
Mrs. MURRET. St. Louis University, the coach there wouldn't let him p.
^ baseball, and baseball was his love. He was a very good basketball player
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but he loved to play ball. He even played with the St. Louis Cardinals
on a farm team, but he saw he would never really get anywhere as an
outfielder, so he quit.
Mr. JENNER. But he was good enough to play on one of the St. Louis
Cardinals farm teams; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. He was a good athlete. He was good at ball, basebai:
basketball, and in fact, he went to Murray, Ky. He was one of the boys
selected from the South. They had a North and South game, and he was
selected from the southern section. It was an all-star game of some kind. He
just won a trip to Rome with the Swift Co.
Mr. JENNER. He works for the Swift Co. now?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. He and his wife are leaving this Saturday.
Mr. JENNER. How nice.
Mrs. MURRET. He earned it. I mean, he didn't win it; he earned it.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you say that while Marguerite was in Covington with 1
three boys in the summer of 1946, that Mr. Ekdahl continued in his travels
in connection with his business?
Mrs. MURRET. I assume he did; that's what he said. I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. At least he wasn't there with her and the boys?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. That was your information, that she had her boys at Covin*
_-he summer of 1946, during vacation, but that her husband Mr. Ekdahl was
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in Covington that summer; is that right?
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Mrs. MURRET. I don't think he was. I can't say whether he was or not,
(jS^cause I don't know, but she said he wasn't. I assume he was on one of
-* se trips he made in his business, and that's why she was over there with
' the boys, but I don't know any of that myself. I don't think I even knew she
was in Covington until I met her 1 day in town.
Mrs. MURRET. "Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And was that during that summer vacation period?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And she told you then that they were in Covington?
Mr. JENNER. Had she not tried to reach you in the meantime?
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Mrs. MURRET. No; she had not.
Mr. JENNER. Is Covington very far away?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. How far away is it?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, about 100-some-odd miles. It isn't very far away.
Mr. JENNER. Did she say anything to you at that time as to how she wa:
^ ving along with her husband?
Mrs. MURRET. Nothing. She just mentioned the boys being on vacation o^
there, and lee becoming of school age, and she thought she would just stay
there while he went to school.
Mr. JENNER. You mean the fall term, when she would put him in school
Covington, La.?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And did she do that?
Mrs. MURRET. I couldn't say whether he went to school there or not Tl
next I heard is when she left Ekdahl.
Mr. JENNER. When she left Ekdahl?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Then to summarize her life with Ekdahl, she married him a]
took the boys out, the two older boys, out of the orphanage and put them in
military school in Mississippi; is that right?
Mr. JENNER. At her own expense?
Mrs. MURRET. So she said.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; so she said. That's what she told you9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. She kept Lee with her; is that right9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
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Mr. JENNER. Was he at that time around 5 years old?
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Mr. JENNER. Or maybe a little older?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And she had accompanied her husband at least for a time ii
travels; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And she had the boy lee with her and Mr. Ekdahl; is that :
Mr. MURRET. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. It is your impression that Ekdahl did not support Lee, bul
she had to support him; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. I thought, at least she told me, that he did not support
either. I thought she told me that. I may be wrong on that.
Mr. JENNER. Was Ekdahl a man of formal education beyond grammar schoo'
Mrs. MURRET. I don't know anything about Ekdahl.
Mr. JENNER. You don't know?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. But it was your impression that he was previously married
had a son; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. She met him here in New Orleans; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You don't know under what circumstances, though, do you9
Mrs. MURRET. I don't know; no, sir.
Mr. JENNER. She spoke to you nothing about the fact that he had a bad
heart?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, she told me that. She said he had a bad heart; a ver
heart, I believe she said.
Mr. JENNER. And the man's sister had come down from Boston, and she
approved of Marguerite, and she urged Mr. Ekdahl to marry her; is that
right?
Mr. JENNER And they did marry?
Mr. JENNER. No children were born of that marriage?
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't think she was married to him very long.
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Mr. JENNER. They were divorced in 1948, I believe; is that right9
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I don't know about the date on that.
Mr. JENNER. But they weren't married very long, and that marriage was
as far as you know, an entirely smooth one, was it?
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Mrs. MURRET. Well, I only know what she told me. She told me what weni
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Mr. JENNER. And you have already told us about that.
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that was the reason for the divorce.
Mr. JENNER. Had she sold her house that she had here in New Orleans ai
a
.. 3 she married Ekdahl?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I think she did. She sold the Alvar Street home and
into the Bartholomew Street home, which was a small house. It was a very
low-priced residence.
Mr. JENNER. At 1010 Bartholomew?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that's right.
Mr. JENNER. And then she sold that at a profit; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, that's what she said, and that was something else <
her; she started sort of getting into the business of buying property and
selling it and making money off of it and so forth, but things don't just
work out the way you want them to sometimes, the way you would like them to
work out.
Mr. JENNER. Did she also undertake to sell insurance at one time?
Mrs. MURRET. She said she did. The last time she was here, she said si
selling insurance, but whether or not she did I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. You mean last fall; when she was here last fall?
Mrs. MURRET. I guess it was in the fall that she was here; yes.
Mr. JENNER. That was before the assassination?
Mr. JENNER. She said then that she was selling insurance?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. That was after we hadn't heard from them for a very
'. I didn't even know that Lee was in the service, and so forth, and then
one day he called me up from the bus station here, but during that time we
hadn't heard from them until he called me from the bus station here and said
he was in town and wanted a place to stay. Now, my daughter's husband was
going over to Texas to a coaching school, I think to coach at Beaumont High,
so we asked him if he would call them when he got over there and maybe visit
and find out how they were getting along, and he did telephone, but he
wasn't able to go out to the house, but they told him that there had been an
accident; that she had been working in a candy shop and a glass jar fell on
her nose, and that she had sustained other injuries. So he told us about
that, and I wrote to her, and I sent her money, and I made up a box of
clothing of whatever I thought she might need and so forth, a lot of things,
and sent them to her, and every week I would send what I could, $5, $10, or'
whatever it was.
Mr. JENNER. When was that, Mrs. Murret? Was that in 1962 or 1963?
Mrs. MURRET. That was while he was in the Marines, still in the Marine
because she said at that time she was trying to get Lee out of the Marines,
but his time was nearly up, and she was pleading a hardship case, to get Lee
out so he could give her some support. Now, that was over the telephone, I
think.
Mr. JENNER. That was a telephone conversation you had with her9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER Was this then in this spring; the late spring of 1959?
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Mr. JENNER. Because he got out of the service in September of 1959.
Mrs. MURRET. That's right, because after he defected here, she visite
-îe. Now, when I talked to her over the telephone, and she told me what it
was costing her financially and everything, that's when they let him out of
the service, right after that, I think.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; in September of 1959.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir, and so then Lee came home, and she was living :
this one room; so Lee stayed there 1 or 2 days, whatever it was, and then he
said, "Well, this is not for me."
Mr. JENNER. Who said that?
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Mrs. MURRET. ^Lee said that. Lee had money that he had saved. He had s<
over $1,000 or $1,400
1 don't know the amountbut after he got home and
stayed there I day, he said, "Well, this is not for me; I'm leaving."
Mr. JENNER. Lee said that?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; so he left. She thought he was coming to New Orlean:
she called me and she said that he had left by bus, and that she thought he
was coming to New Orleans, and that he had worked as a runner when he was
|J Q r o f o r a w h i i e f r Tujague's, and she thought he might be coming here for
uncau reason, and that he may stop at my house, but not to tell him that she
had called me, but Lee never did stop at the house. If he did, I didn't
know it.
Mr. JENNER. Did he call you?
Mrs. MURRET. No; he didn't call. I never heard from him, and I was wa
and I have always felt that if he had only stopped at the house, you know,
this might not have happened.
Mr. JENNER. What do you think would have happened if he had stopped b
called?
Mrs. MURRET. I think we might have been able to help him get a job o
maybe we couldn't have done anything; I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. Well, you would have tried, anyhow.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; anyway, we didn't see Lee, and I had to go out that
afternoon and I was under the impression, I thought maybe he did come, you
know, pass by, and I asked some children in the block if they had seen
somebody in the house and they said yes, that they saw someone with a small
suitcase, but afterward I thought it was the Fuller brush man. I thouqht
that afterward.
So then I didn't know anything any more about Lee.
Mr. JENNER. Could we stop there a minute and go back over this9 After
rce from Ekdahl, did she continue to live in Texas9
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, and that's another thing. We felt that if she could
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gotten along with Ekdahl, that they would have all been together. Lee would
have had someone to look up to as a father, and so forth, and things might
? been different, but you can't go by what could have happened. I guess
onetimes you make your own troubles.
Mr. JENNER. In any event, after Ekdahl left and they were divorced, tl
she remained in touch with you, but she didn't return here?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. And then, at that time, she would have had her son, Lee, ,
her son, John, and her son, Robert, with her; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. All living in in their home in Fort Worth?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What, if anything, did Marguerite tell you about the way :
brought Lee up; I mean with regard to whether he was to stay in the house
after school, and things like that?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; she told me that she had trained Lee to stay in the
house; to stay close to home when she wasn't there; and even to run home
from school and remain in the house or near the house. She said she thought
it would be safer to have him just do a few chores in the house, like taking
the garbage cans out and things like that, than to have him outside playing
when she wasn't there. She figured he wouldn't get in any trouble in the
house. Maybe she thought she was making it safer for him by doing that,
rather than being out with other children, but I don't know. I guess that's
9mmHh^- naPPened. He just got in the habit of staying alone like that. That's
- ^vâbly the time that he got like that; he was with himself so much.
Mr. JENNER. I take it, however, you heard from your sister from time
time?
Mr. JENNER. You heard from your sister from time to time durinq all 0"
period, didn't you?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, every now and then, but after she had left Ekdahl
didn't hear from her too much. I don't know what went on. I think Robert
worked at some supermarket, and so forth. He had to support the family, or
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whatever it was, and then I believe he graduated from high school, Robert
did, and then I think he was in love with some little Italian girl who was
crippled girl, and she told me that the family liked Robert a lot and thev
were trying to get the two together to get married, but she wanted to break
that up because the girl was crippled, but Robert said he love d the qirl
but she was thinking that he was young and he just thought he loved the '
--1, and maybe if he did marry her he would find out that he didn't like
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oecause of her being handicapped, and all that happened in there I
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don't know all the details, but, anyway, Robert went in the Marines, and
that ended that. He went in the Marines on his 17th birthday, as I recall.
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Mr. JENNER. The same as Lee Harvey?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; that must have been right after graduation. Ro}
was sort of a nice-looking boy, I think, but, anyway, she told me that these
Italian people were trying to make a marriage between Robert and this
handicapped girl. That's what she said. I don't know anything about that,
really; so then Robert went in the marines, and she got a job in New York.
They went to New York about that time, and she got a job with the same
people that she had been working for here.
Mr. JENNER. Hosiery?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; it was the same people, but Lee didn't want to go ti
school over there; so he was a sort of a problem by not going to school, and
one day when she was at work they came to the apartment and they got him and
they took him off and put him in this place, and she had to get a lawyer,
and the lawyer got him out of the place, and he told her that she had better
get out of New York as fast as she could with this boy, and that's all I
know about that story. And then it must have been on the way backI didn't
even know she had went to New York, but anyway, on the way back she must
have come looking for a place to stay here in New Orleans, and she came to
my house and we put her up for I don't know how long. It was during that
time that Robert was getting out of the marines, because Robert met her at
my house after she had been staying there a couple of weeks or a month, or
^hêver it was, and they all went back to Texas, and I didn't hear from
- uirau for a while.
Mr. JENNER. Let me interrupt you here a minute, Mrs. Murret.. I will <
back to that again in a moment. According to your story, when Ekdahl died,
they remained in Texas until they went to New York; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I imagine that was after she separated and after R
graduated from high school. I assume that was the time she went to New York.
I don't know if I'm right on that or not.
Mr. JENNER. Does the late summer of 1952 refresh your recollection as
when she went to New York?
Mrs. MURRET. 1952?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; 1952, when she went to New York.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, she was living herelet's see
Mr. JENNER. Well, she was living in Fort Worth before going to New Yo
believe. Do you think that would have been in the summer of 1952?
Mrs. MURRET. I can't recollect that. Maybe if you give me'a lead, I m
remember.
Mr. JENNER. Is the name of Ewing Street in Fort Worth, Tex. familiar 1
you?
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't know that one.
Mr. JENNER. Does Eighth Avenue refresh your recollection any as to an
^Hr-ess w h e r e t h e y lived in Fort Worth?
Mrs. MURRET. I never heard from her at that address, unless that was 1
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house that she bought, and she was having trouble with the party that bought
it.
Mr. JENNER. You mean she was having trouble with the purchaser?
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Mrs. MURRET. Yes; he was supposed to pay rent to her. You see, she ali
wanted to do everything herself, and he wasn't paying her the rent, and I
don't think they was paying the other, and they lost out on the deal.
Mr. JENNER. She reported that to you?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; she told me about that. Now, I don't know if that's
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same place, the same house or not, but that was one house that she spoke
about.
Mr. JENNER. Is the name Mrs. Beverly Richardson familiar to you?
Mrs. MURRET. I never heard of her.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Llewellyn Marritt?
Mrs. MURRET. I never heard of her
Mr. JENNER. Patricia Aarons?
Mrs. MURRET. I never heard of her.
Mr. JENNER. Herman Conway?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
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Mr. JENNER. Thomas W. Turner?
^ ^
Mrs. MURRET. I never heard of him.
Mr. JENNER. While Mr. Ekdahl was living with her, of course, he was
supporting the family, but after he left, then that was left up to her; is
that right?
Mrs. MURRET. What?
Mr. JENNER. She had to support the family when Mr. Ekdahl left; is the
right?
Mr. JENNER. She got some assistance from her sons, did she?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I think Robert was working at a supermarket, and si
to make him give her his salary, and I don't know whether John was in the
Coast Guard at the time or not. I don't think he contributed anythingJohn
but I don't know.
'
Mr. JENNER. Was it your impression that about that time she was becom
increasingly despondent with life?
Mrs. MURRET. I wouldn't say that. She seemed to be a person, or rathe
was a person who adjusted very easily to situations.
Mr. JENNER. She adjusted easily?
Mrs. MURRET. She knew she had to do something about these things; thai
had to get out and work, and so forth, to buy these boys things that they
-êd and to keep them going. Of course, I guess it was hard, naturally.
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think they ever appreciate what you do for them.
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Mr. JENNER. What makes you say that?
^1^
Mrs- MURRET. Well, she told me that the boys weren't helping out, I m
It -în. Now, I don't know if John was married right about then or not, but I
don't think he was helping out at home at all. If it had been my son, I know
he would have stayed with me. He wouldn't have run out. Of course, maybe
John had a family and maybe he couldn't help, I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. Did she talk to you about that, or seem despondent because
children didn't help her?
v ^ S "^ Ni ^ l A V pic ?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; she told me about it. Now, after Robert got married.
stayed with Robert for a while, but I think there was a little friction
between her and his;wife, or something. I don't know about that, except what
she told me. Of course, there are always two sides to every story. I don't
know. You can only repeat what one party tells you. In a way, I don't think
those children showed the proper respect for their mother, and I don't think
that's right regardless of the hard time she was having raising them,
because I guess she was a little demanding on them at times, and I think
children should have the proper respect for their parents. I know no matter
what my children did, I would still love them. Mr. Murret is a good family
man too, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for his children, and I have
heard him tell them that no matter what happens don't you ever talk about
anybody's mother, and things like that.
Mr. JENNER. Was it during this period before she moved to New York th<
o1H
^^
you she had, as you put it, trained Lee to stay in the house?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I don't know exactly when you would say that was, 1
think that's one reason why I know that Lee was so quiet; he was so much by
himself, without playing with other children. She did tell me that she told
Robert to come right home from school and things like that, because she
thought it would be safer than being outside playing, but I don't know
exactly when it was she was telling me that. I think that was while they
were living
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over in Fort Worth, but anyway, she was having a hard time of it over there
and she either wrote me or called meI don't remember which, but anyway, I
told her that I would help her out, to send Lee down here for a while, and
she sent Lee by train over here, and the train was about 2 hours late'.
Mr. JENNER. Where did he come from at that time, from Texas9
Mrs. MURRET. From Texas; yes, sir, and I asked him, I said, ""Lee did <
meet anyone on the train? Did you talk to anybody?" And he said, "No I
^'dn't talk to anybody. My mother told me not to talk to anybody." Of
se, that's a good thing sometimes, not to talk to strangers,"but I guess
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that was one of the reasons he was so much by himself. Anyway, he stayed
_with us for a while.
Mr. JENNER For how long?
Mrs. MURRET. About 2 weeks, 3 weeks, maybe more, until she got on her
and we took Lee cut to ball games and bought him things, and we tried to
make him happy, but it seemed like he just didn't want to get out of the
house. I mean, he wouldn't go out and play. He would just rather stay in the
house and read or something.
Mr. JENNER. He wouldn't want to go out and play with the other childr*
Mrs. MURRET. No, he wouldn't. We didn't have a television. Even thoug]
had a husband, my sister always seemed to have more than I had. She was
working, and somehow she had an automobile and a television and things that
I didn't have. It was years after television had come out before we had one.
We did have a radio, and lee would take it in the back room and listen to
the radio and read. He would read funnybooks and I would try to get him to
go outside and play with the other children, but he wouldn't go out, so
finally I just r ;ie him get out, so he did for a day or so, but then he came
right back in and would go right back to reading and listening to the radio,
and I practically pushed him out again, because I didn't think it was
healthy for him to stay in the house all the time, just to stay in that room
by himself, but finally I decided that that was what he wanted, that that
was his way of life, what he wanted to do, and there wasn't much I could do
about it.
We took him out after that, but he didn't seem to enjoy himself, so f.
I d her to come and get him, that we didn't like for him to be there any
more, because we had tried to do all we could for him. Now, maybe she
thought we didn' like him, but that wasn't it. It was just that he wouldn't
go out and play, and he wanted to be alone in that room all the time, and he
wouldn't even t
to the other children, and he was obviously very unhappy,
but anyway J3he_c_ -e down and got him. In fact, he told her to come and get
him.
Mr. JENNI . How do you know that?
Mrs. MUPJ r Because I saw the letter.
Mr. JENM . He wrote a letter to her asking her to come and get him?
Mrs. MURF^T. Yes; I wasn't supposed to see the letter, but I did.
Mr. JENNE?.. You saw the letter before it was mailed?
Mrs. MURF: T. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENM ... And he expressed in that letter some discomfort in being ,
your home, did 1 .
Mrs. MUP
. Yes.
Mr. JENT;
1 he was under the impression that you didn't like him?
Mrs. MUF, .'. I guess so, because he wrote and told her that nobody art
there liked him, id here everyone was knocking themselves out for him.
Mr. JENN
,re was your sister living at that time, in Fort Worth9
Mrs. MUF. . I think so; yes.
Mr. JENN
:.r. the occasion that she came from New York and stopped of:
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New Orleans, did she stay with you for a few days?
Mrs. MUPI T. Well, she stayed with me until she found an apartment.
Mr. JENNI . That was in your home at 757 French Street?
Mrs. MUF; r. Yes, sir; and that address was changed to 809 French Str*
Mr. JEM: . How was that?
Mrs. MUF r. Well, it was the same house, but they changed the number:
that block, but Lt was the same residence. They changed it to the 700 block.
Mr. JEM: . And how long did she stay with you on that occasion?
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Mrs. MUF: T. Well, that must have been 2 weeks, 3 weeks. She was look:
for a place to
y, and Robert was coming out of the service, and so that's
when she found
s place over on Exchange Alley before Robert came in, and
she met Robert
- house, and they went right over to the apartment at
Exchange Alley
.a had found, but Robert left. He wouldn't stay in New
Orleans.
Mr. JEM"
: >w many days were you looking for an apartment for her?
Mrs. MUF.. . Oh, I would say about a week.
Mr. JEM J.
Until she found this place on Exchange Alley?
Mrs. MURI . That's right.
Mr. JENNEK. What was Lee doing during that time?
,
Mrs. MJRRET. He was going to school. > W e - W 04 u~ - Ucii Y i^ ,
Mr. JEMF . When they came back from New York and stopped at your horn*
lived with you - porarily, did he go to school?
(_-
Mrs .MUF
Yes; he did. That's when she enrolled him at Beauregard
High.
Mr. JEM; Id that have been in January 1954?
Mrs. MUI
. don't know.
Mr. JEM:
11, they left New York City, I think, either on the fifl
the seventh of
a-y 1954. Now, we have an address here in New Orleans of
1464 St. Mary S
Mrs. MUF
. Oh, that was before the Exchange Place. She rented that :
this lady who v
a friend of hers.
Mr. JEM:
Was that Myrtle Evans?
Mrs. MUF
\ Yes; Myrtle Evans. She was a friend of hers.
Mr. JEM.
I believe she also lived for a time at 1910 Prytania, did
she?
Mrs. MUI
. I think that's right. I'm not sure about those different
places, I mean,
would move from one to the other, but she was at {,-e&
several places
.. there before she went to Exchange Place.
Mr. JET:
11, we appear from our records to have them living on S1
MO-rv Street in
leans in May or June of 1954, until about February
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Mrs. MUF" T. Well, I don't know anything about that. I know Myrtle Ev
was managing th
artment where she lived.
Mr. JEM
Do you know how it was that she went to live at 126 Exchai
_-ce in New Or
s?
Mrs. MUI
. Yes.
Mr. JEM;
is that 1954 or 1955?
Mrs. MUx
: don't knowwhatever you have down there probably is tl
right year, but
- lived at Myrtle's house first.
Mr. JEM:
)uld it have been that Myrtle Evans lived, in the spring <
1954, at 1454 S
try Street?
Mrs. MUF. ". I don't know. Maybe that's right. I know this was a very
house where she ived. I was told that she had a family home
Myrtle and
that she had re
:1 it into a lot of apartments for tenants.
Mr. JEM:
long did they stay at your house?
Mrs. MUx
. r\t my house?
Mr. JEM
Mrs. ML":
ill, like I said, 2 weeks or 3 weeks at the most, somew]
in there.
Mr. JEN
you are pretty sure that they moved directly from you:
house into thi.
- on Exchange Alley?
Mrs. MUI
ill, either there or to Myrtle's apartment. I don't knoi
which, to be t:
il with you.
Mr. JEM
J, tell me about Lee Harvey Oswald during the couple of \
that he spent e. ur house. Did you notice any change in him from the time
xiad known 1
viously? He would now have been about 3 years older;
isn't that rig!
Mrs. MU
es, sir; like I said, they had just come from New York,
she had told rr
him not wanting to go to school, but she enrolled him
over at Beaure
100I, which wasn't too far from my home. It's a school
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on Canal Stree'
from Lakeview,
the school, an
having trouble
Mr. JEM
referring to r.
Mrs. ML'
anything mysel
he told her of
forth, names 1
-êat in the I
. ^ Vork, and 1
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it's just a few blocks after you get off of the bus
enrolled him there, and she gave him my address for
ink, or I'm quite sure, that while he was there he was
me of the boys at the school.
w, will you tell me about that? Just tell me what you a
relation to that school.
1, I can only tell you what I was told. I don't know^/
.tppened, but I can tell you what he told me, or what
pened. He said they were calling him "Yankee," and so
:, and this one time he got into the bus and he sat in
ction, which he didn't know, because he had come from
't know that they sat in special seats, so he just got
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on the bus and sat down where he could. The bus stopped in front of the
school, and you can hardly get a seat anyway, so he just ran to the bus and
^ ^ ed on and got a seat, like I said, in the Negro section, and the boys
m ^-Tped him at the end of the line. They jumped on him, and he took on all of
them, and of course they beat him up, and so he came home, and that was the
end of that. He didn't say anything to me about that.
^ L A V > ^*'A
Another time they were coning out of school at 3 o'clock, and there w*
boys in back of him and one of them called his name, and he said, "Lee," and
when he turned around, this boy punched him in the mouth and ran, and it ran
his tooth through the lip, so she had to go over to the school and take him
to the dentist, and I paid for the dentist bill myself, and that's all I
know about that, and he was not supposed to have started any of that at that
time.
Now, at the Beauregard School at that time, they had a very low stand
and I had no children going there and never did. My children went to Jesuit
High and Loyola University, but they did have a very bad bunch of boys going
to Beauregard and they were always having fights and ganging up on other
boys, and I guess lee wouldn't take anything, so he got in several scrapes
like that.
Mr. JENNER. These were things that Mrs. Oswald told you; is that righl
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes; most of it, except when he was in my home, and I obthe way he acted. He was a lonely boy most of the time, I think.
Mr. JENNER. Your children were all entered in school, were they?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
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Mr. JENNER. And did they study pretty hard?
Mrs. MJRRET. Oh, yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have the impression that Lee Harvey was doing wel
school, or what was your feeling along that line?
Mrs. MURRET. I think he was doing very poor work in school most of th
time. Then he got to the point where he just didn't think he ought to have
to go to school, and that seemed to be his whole attitude, and when I
mentioned that to Marguerite, that seemed to be the beginning of our
misunderstanding. She didn't think her child could do anything wrong, and I
could see that he wasn't interested in going to school, because I have had
children of my own going to school and they always done real well in their
grades. They actually seemed to like school, but I can't say that Lee ever
showed that he liked school.
Mr. JENNER. When he came with his mother from New York, did he ever d
anything with you relative to his trip to New York?
Mrs. MURRET. No; he never said anything, but my sister told me about 1
time they had to take him out of the apartment, when she was working, and
put him in that place, and she had to get a lawyer to get him out.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, this boy was about 14 years of age at thai
time; is that right, after they returned from New York and stayed at your
^_ ~ Mrs. MJRRET. Yes; and then the next I heard was when he came here, an*
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didn't want to go to school because he thought he already knew all that they
had to teach him, so she must have allowed him to go to work for Tujague's,
~
^ u s e he had a job as a runner, going from building to building,
fc
t - -^-vering messages and things like that.
Mr. JENNER. That was in 1955, would that be about right?
Mrs. MJRRET. When he was here; yes.
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Mr. JENNER. Did this boy come over to visit you occasionally when the
living in Exchange Alley?
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes; he did. Before he got the job with Tujague's, he li]
seafood, you see, and he used to come over from school on a Friday afternoon
to get his Friday dinner, because he knew I always cooked seafood on Friday,
so he always came on Friday, and then he would come again on Saturday
morning and I would give him money to rent a bike at City Park, and you
know, he thought that was one of the greatest things he could do, and he was
very happy riding a bike up in City Park. My children had a bike, but it
seemed like he wanted to go up in the park rather than ride their bicycles,
and sometimes I would have to get my children back or something, and I would
have to give him more money so that he could keep his bike another hour.
^ ^
Now, when he was going to Beauregard, Joyce, one of my daughters who .
5^?Tx êaumont
Mr. JENNER. Beaumont, Tex.?
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes, sir; well, I don't think Joyce was married then. I <
think whether she was or not, but anyway, we went to the store and we bought
Lee a lot of clothes that we thought he might need so he would look
presentable to go to school, you know, whatever a boy needs, and when we
gave them to him, he said, "Well, why are you all doing this for me?" And we
said, "Well, lee, for one thing, we love you, and another thing we want you
to look nice when you go to school, like the other children." So that was
that.
Mr. JENNER. Did he wear this clothing to school?
Mrs. MJRRET. Oh, yes; he wore the clothing that we bought him.
Mr. JENNER. Did he say anything else with regard to your purchasing tl
clothing for him?
\\o^x***i
Mrs. MJRRET. No; he never would discuss anything! He was very indepen*
Like one time I remember asking him a question about something, and he said,
"I don't need anything from anybody," and that's when I told him, I said,
"Now listen, Lee, don't you get so independent that you don't think you need
anyone, because we all need somebody at one time or other," I said "so
don't you ever get that independent, that you should feel that you'don't
^ * ^ d anybody, because you do need somebody, sometime you will."
m ^
Mr. JENNER. Do you think that a little of this independence might hav
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rubbed off from his mother, in the light of your experiences with your
jg^sister?
Mrs
*|
- M ^ ^ T - Well/ she was independent herself all right. She didn't 1
C. ~xie needed anybody either, so I guess he sort of got that from her, but I
know that there are times when we always need somebody, and if you don't
have somebody to turn to, then you don't know what to do sometimes. I would
hate to feel that I never needed anybody.
Mr. JENNER. Did Lee seem to have that propensity, that when you did tl
for him, that he didn't seem to want you doing anything for him?
Mrs. MJRRET. I don't think he seemed to be very appreciative for anytl
you did for him. Now, I will say this, at the time he was receiving
something, like these clothes, he seemed to be very happy about it, but it
didn't last any time, and he never would put it in words at least anyway. We
were probably the only people that he knew as relatives. I don't think he
knew anyone else in the family.
Mr. JENNER. In the Oswald family, do you mean?
Mrs. MJRRET. In the Oswald family or any other family. I mean, we wen
only ones he knew, and I got to know him pretty well since I took care of
him while she had the other two boys in this place, after she gave birth to
Lee, but along with him I had these five children of my own to take care of,
and I had a colored girl working for me. When John was born, I had a child
that was just a few months older than John Edward, but I gave her my girl
for weeks, and I was struggling along with my five, and a baby the same age
^he had, you know. I tried to do all I could to help her.
Mr. JENNER. Would you recognize Lee's handwriting if you saw it?
Mrs. MJRRET. I don't say that I would. I may. I may have expressed it
before, but I thought he had a very childish handwriting.
Mr. JENNER. Did you see his handwriting often?
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Mrs. MJRRET. Only at the time when he was going to Beauregard School
his homework.
Mr. JENNER. Without noting that you have Commission Exhibit No. 540 h
you, do you recognize that handwriting?
Mrs. MURRET. Wait till I get my glasses.
Mr. JENNER. All right; take your time.
Mrs. MJRRET. I couldn't say I recognized it. It looks a little like
something like his writing, I mean, the way he would write, but I couldn't'
say for sureI couldn't swear that that was his writing.
Mr. JENNER. You couldn't swear that he wrote this?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
I
Mr. JENNER. Does it look like what you recall his handwriting was 9
m
i ^
Mrs. MJRRET. Well, if it's anything, it's even a little better than I
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him to write, I might say. I never thought he wrote very well for his age,
^ a n d he was 14 then, you know. Of course, a lot of boys don't write good.
^ s, you will find, are better at penmanship than boys. You ought to see
C -^ 'son's writing. He graduated from law school, and he don't write good
either. Now, I think he was left handed.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you have caused me complications, Mrs. Murret. Ccmmi:
Exhibit 540 has a series of pages which are numbered at the bottom, 148
through 157, both inclusive, purporting to be photostatic copies of a diary
or the memoirs of Lee Harvey Oswald, written in his hand, and found by
Irving, Tex., police and the city of Dallas police, or at least certainly by
the city of Dallas police; in his room.
Mrs. MJRRET. Well, here's one that says that he wasyou see, when he
stopped in that Saturday, you know, we didn't know where he was going, but
he said he was going to be stationed at Keesler Field
Mr. JENNER. Is that Keesler Field at Biloxi?
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes. But someone else said that they thought that when h<
to my house on that Saturday, when he stopped there, that he was coming from
Atlanta, Ga., that day, but anyway, we took Lee to lunch that day and then
dropped him off, if I remember right, by the customhouse up here by the
river, and that's all I remember about that, and I never saw him any more
after that until he turned up in Russia.
Mr. JENNER. After he defected to Russia?
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes, sir. I told him, I said, "Lee, if you are going to 1
M^^-ioned over there, you can come over weekends."
Mr. JENNER. Did he say he was going to be stationed there?
Mrs. MJRRET. At Keesler Field?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes; he said he was going to be.
Mr. JENNER. And that is over at Biloxi, Miss.?
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes, sir; but he never did come over and see us, and he i
did write. I asked him to write, but he didn't write, and I never heard any
more from him. I didn't even know that he was back from Russia.
Mr. JENNER. And you didn't know that he had gone to Russia either- is
right?
Mrs. MJRRET. That's right; I didn't know he had gone over there at al
didn't know he went until after he went.
Mr. JENNER. How did you learn he was in Russia? Did his mother tell y<
that he was in Russia?
Mrs. MJRRET. That he had defected, yes. That was about the time she h<
this accident, I remember, and then he got out of the Marines.
Mr. JENNER. Now, that was before he defected; right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that was before he went to Russia. He got out of th
Marines and he came to see her, and he had all that money, but he didn't
give her any of it, I don't think, but $10. I think he gave her $10, she
- *--~iijjj me and then he left, supposedly to come to New Orleans, so she'thouqht
1^
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he was in Russia.
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Mr. JENNER. So she told you that; is that right?
Mrs
^T+
- MJRRET. She told me; yes, sir.
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Mr. JENNER. Was the fact that he had defected prominently displayed ii
New Orleans papers?
Mrs. MJRRET. Well, not here so much, but in Fort Worth and so forth, <
there, they mentioned it; they made quite a to do about it.
Mr. JENNER. There was nothing in the New Orleans papers about it?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't think. There might have been.
Mr. JENNER. Well, at least it didn't ccme to your attention?
Mrs. MJRRET. I don't think they had anything here about that at all, 1
they did have it a lot in the Fort Worth paper.
Mr. JENNER. Did she send any of those newspaper clippings to you?
Mrs. MJRRET. No; she came down here.
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Mr. JENNER. To New Orleans?
6jÂ\
Mr. JENNER. And she told you all about it?
Mrs. MJRRET. She told me all about it, what she knew about it. She di<
^ n too much about it, she said, why he did it or anything like that, but
^ .n^ said that he had a right to go any place he wanted to go, I believe.
Mr. JENNER. Did she seem to think he was living in the pattern that si
brought him up in?
Mrs. MJRRET. What's that?
Mr. JENNER. Did she seem to think that he was living in the pattern tl
she had brought him up in, that is, to be independent?
Mrs. MJRRET. Well, it's hard to judge that. When you only have one pe
or one child, maybe you do have a tendency to feel that way, but who knows
what's in a person's mind. I think your mind is what really belongs to you,
and I don't think anyone knows what's running through your mind. I really
believe that, so I couldn't tell you how she felt about it, or how he felt
about it, or what made him do the things he did. I can only tell you what I
think, but that doesn't mean that I know, because I really don't. You just
can't tell what's running through a person's mind. You may think'you know
their mind, but you don't, I don't think. I think he went over there because
he wasn't satisfied with the life he was living, and maybe he wanted to see
how it was over there, I guess; I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have any conversations with him about it 9
Mrs. MJRRET. After he came back?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
5; ^
Mrs. MJRRET. No. Oh, I spoke about it, and he might say something ono
^ ^
e about how they lived or something, but he never did discuss it.
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Mr. JENNER. Did you have any talks with your sister or with him when I
^^jjorking as a delivery boy or messenger boy for Tujague's?
t w
Mrs. MJRRET. No. I didn't know anything other than he was working the:
î*u he was a runner, and that sort of thing, for them.
Mr. JENNER. Now, he had not yet graduated from high school; is that r:
Mrs. MJRRET. I don't believe he had graduated from high school yet; n<
sir. He came out of this junior high, and like I said, I didn't even know he
went to Easton. I remember one morning he came over to the house, and he
said that he wanted to get on the ball team, but he didn't have any shoes
and he didn't have a glove, so I said, "Well, Lee, we can fix you up," and I
gave him a glove, but I don't think we had shoes to fit him. Joyce's husband
sent him a pair of shoes from Beaumont, a pair of baseball shoes, and I told
Lee, I said, "lee, when you need anything, just ask me for it, and if
there's a way to get it for you, we will get it." So then he got on the
team, I think, but he got off as quick as he got on. I don't know why. He
never discussed that with us as to why that was, and we never found out.
Mr. JENNER. He never discussed that with you?
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't think he got on the team though. He never di(
actually play on it, I don't think. For one thing, I don't think he was the
type of boy who was too good an athlete.
Like a lot of boys, I guess they wanted him to be one of those that s:
the bench, and he didn't like to sit on the bench, so when they didn't let
him play on the team and wanted him to sit on the bench, I guess he just
a^ff
I don't know that though.
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Mr. JENNER. You think that's what happened to Lee, do you?
Mrs. MURRET. I think that's what might have happened to him. I don't 1
though.
Mr. JENNER. Was he a competitive person?
Mrs. MURRET. Was he what?
Mr. JENNER. Was he competitive?
Mrs. MJRRET. No; I don't think so. Like I said, at school his only re
about that was that he didn't think he had to go to school to learn these
subjects, because he knew all of them. He said he wasn't learning anything,
and it was just a waste of time.
I told him, I said, "lae, that's not the idea. It's not a waste of til
You have got to go through school in order to graduate, because you need to
graduate to get anywhere in this world." I told him, "You are going to have
to go on to college and make something out of yourself, even if you think
you know all the subjects." I think that's one of the things that Marguerite
~â little put out with me about. She always wanted to let Lee have his
pâ^ Jaout everything.
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Even after he came back from Russia, I talked to him about that, but I
janswered me the same way. He said he didn't see any use in going to school,
f ^ ^ . he knew all the subjects.
L
Mr. JENNER. Did your children discuss Lee in your presence?
Mrs. MJRRET. Did they discuss Lee?
Mr. JENNER. Yes. What did your children think of Lee?
Mrs. MJRRET. They loved Lee, I think. He was in my home, and he acted
any other boy would act, no different, as far as that goes. I didn't have
television then, so he would eat dinner and then listen to the radio and go
to bed, and get up the next morning and do the same things. Actually, the
children didn't have much contact with him, because he wouldn't go out and
play at all. They really loved him a lot, though. They have always loved
him.
Mr. JENNER. Then eventually they went to Texas; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, was that in the fall of 1956?
Mrs. MURRET. I think so; yes.
Mr. JENNER. They left New Orleans and went to Texas in 1956; right?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right. That's when he joined the Marines. I don't
what that date is, but I know he joined the Marines after they left.
Mr. JENNER. Your sister didn't tell you and Lee didn't tell you that 1
were about to move to Texas?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I think that's about the time that Robert came in,
^^rxnse the next thing she said was that Robert didn't want to stay here. He
^ - ' fc w a n t t o make his home here, he said. He said New Orleans was not his
home, but that his friends were in Texas, so I don't know if Robert left
first, or if they all left together. In fact, I didn't know she was leaving
until she rang up one dayshe had a sewing machine that belonged to us, a
portable sewing machine that we had loaned her, and she called one day and
said she was already packed and ready to go to the train station, or
whatever it was the way she was going, and all she said was, "We're leaving;
come get your machine." We never did get the machine. When we went up
there, the place was locked up, and we never did get it back.
Mr. JENNER. This was a portable electric sewing machine?
Mrs. MJRRET. Yes; she told us she was leaving right then, and to come
get it. She said she would leave it there in the house or something like
that, or it's in the house or something, and that was it. Like I said, when
we got over there the place was locked up and we didn't get the machine
back. She had some furniture that belonged to her there, I think, so I don't
know whether she took anything with her besides her clothing or not; but she
left.
Mr. JENNER. And where was this she called you from, do you know9
Mrs. MURRET. Well, they were over on Exchange Place at that time
Mr. JENNER. Exchange?
j;
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
^ ^
Mr. JENNER. Did you go right over there to get the machine?
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Mrs. MJRRET. No; I didn't. When we did go over the place was all lock*
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Mr. JENNER. So then that was the circumstance, as you knew it, after ]
got out of the service?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and came to New Orleans. She thought he might live ]
and work and help support the family.
Mr. JENNER. But he didn't like New Orleans?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right. He said all his friends were in Texas, and
wanted to move over there.
Mr. JENNER. He said he wanted to live in Texas where his friends were'
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that's what he said. He said Texas was his home, noi
Orleans.
Mr. JENNER. And so they moved to Texas?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and shortly after thatI forget whenbut Robert
married, and I didn't even know he was married.
Mr. JENNER. You didn't even know that?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. What kind of boy was Robert?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't know too much about Robert. After they moved awa^
j^-^'t know too much about Robert, and I didn't know John too well either.
- xiicj.e's one thing. Robert and John, they never recognized one another as
brothers.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me about that.
Mrs. MURRET. They were stepbrothers, but having lived together from r*
small children, you would think that they would love one another as
brothers, you know. You would think being small children, they would accept
each other as brothers and wouldn't think anything about being halfbrothers
or stepbrothers.
Mr. JENNER. Except they had two different names, Pic and Oswald; righl
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that's right.
Mr. JEM;:^R. Tell me this, Mrs. Murret: do you think that the fact thai
sister Marguerite insisted on John Edward Pic retaining his Pic name despite
the fact that her husband Oswald wanted to adopt him, contributed to that
feeling between the two boys?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I don't think, because John was 2 years old when s)
married Oswald, and then Robert was born a few years after that, so I don't
think that would bring that about, but that's what she told me, that Oswald
wanted to adopt John, and she said, "No; John has a father, and his name is
Pic, and let's leave it at Pic and let the father contribute to him."
Mr. JENNER. Well, perhaps I didn't frame my question right. You were i
--împression -hat the boys were conscious of the difference in the name
P^ s against swald, weren't you?
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Mrs. MJRRET. Yes.
Mr. JEbttER. And you do recall that each regarded the other as his brol
^" that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I think Lee loved Robert a lot, but maybe he wasn'1
fond of John. In a different way maybe he didn't love John as much as he did
Robert. That's just what I think.
Mr. JENNER. How did John and Robert get along?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't know. I was never in their presence too much at 1
age. I kept them when Mrs. Oswald gave birth to Lee, but they were little
then, you know, and they seemed to be getting along all right. I had them
for about a week, and I remember sitting outside and they were saying that
it had better not be a girl. "Because we don't want any girls in this
family."
Mr. JET"' R. Oh well, that was boy talk, was it not?
Mrs. ML CT. Oh, yes; but they did say, "It had better not be a girl.'
Mr. JE
R. When did you first become aware that Lee had entered the
Marines?
Mrs. MJRRET. Well, not until he came in that Saturday.
Mr. JET:' R. When he wanted to be stationed at Keesler Field?
Mrs. M
ET. That's right, that's what he said when he came through oi
Saturday, but
en I never heard any more from Lee at all.
Mr. JET NER. Now, you have already touched on some information regardi]
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when he went t< Russia. Marguerite communicated with you about the fact that
he was in Rusi ; is that right?
Mrs. M r V,T. Well, like I said, my son-in-law contacted her because wc
hadn't heard 1
a her in a very long time, so he looked in the telephone
book over the%
m d found her number.
Mr. JE
<. What is your son-in-law's name?
Mrs. M
T. Emile O'Brien. He called her and he told us that she sai*
she had this .
.dent, like I told you before, so I called her, I think, or
her brother] an't remember which. Anyway, we sent her a box of clothes at
Christmas time anything that we could think of, and then I sent her money
at different t' mes during the week, as much as I could afford and so forth,
and she said :
was trying to get this hardship discharge for Lee so he
could leave V.
"arines and come home.
It was
tty near time for him to get out, but when he came in, he oi
stayed there
2 days at her house, or 1 day, or whatever it was, and he
said, "Well, I s is it; this is not for me," and he left, and that's when
she called me
i she said she thought he was coming to New Orleans and that
^ would be c
tg by bus, she th -ht, and that maybe he would be coming to
/use, but
: me not to tell him that she had called me, but I never saw
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R. Did he contact you at all?

:T. No; I never saw Lee or never heard any more from him unt:
was when she told me she received this letter, I think,
* thing I
from Russia.
Mr. JE1' R. She called you and told you about that?
Mrs. ML
r. Yes.
Mr. JF'
'. Now, during all this time that he was in the Marines, he <
.?
write you, did
T. I never heard from him; no, sir.
Mrs. M
\. The only time he saw you was on that one Saturday?
Mr. JE1
T. Yes.
Mrs. M
. And when he was here on that Saturday, he told you he was
Mr. J"
t Keesler Field.
to be static.
'. J nat's right.
Mrs. I
.
Did he say ar
Ing about what his experiences had been ii
Mr. J
Marines?
Mrs. F T. He didn't say anything. It was a rush affair. He came up
1 he was in uniform, and he said, "What do you tMnk, the
rang the bell
thought I was a cadet, and here I am a big N&rine." We
people on tfr
-inch, and we left him off at the Custcm House, like I said,
took him out
-nd of that. But, i aybe you might like to know this: before
and that was
larines, whi
is in New Orleans and they were going
Lee went int^
ie Alley, I th
2 tried to join the service then, a
to live on E.
. I don't ]
hich branch or anything, but anyway, he

sh of th
on and they told him that he could sign
\ inducti
must have gr
met her in town, I think, and he was
sign.
up if his mc
; Marines or whatever it was he was
,rted t
all excited
was the Marines, and he said, "If you
. t remc.
going to joi.
said,
"No; I am not going to sign for
I
can
go.''
will sign foindign
the whole thing, and he told her that
you," so he \
: from goi:
;o then that went around for a while,
she was stop;
: and tol<
t if she would sign an affidavit, go
and then he <
;
ce
and
s
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fidavit,
that he would b e able to get
to the lawye
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in, so she v
'nee t h e n a n d M r . Sere told her,
h e has
in Mr. Sere'
:
i him, and if that's what he wants to
: do a n
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do, well, gc
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speech before
1. Americans are apt to scoff at the idea, that a military coup in the US., as so often
happens in Latin american countries, could ever replace our government but that
is an idea that has grounds for consideration. Which military organization has
the potenitialities of executing such action? Is it the army? with its m a n y constripes,
its unwieldy size its scores of bases scattered across the world? The case of Gen.
Walker shows that the army, at least, is not fertail enough ground for a far right
regime to go a very long way. for the same reasons of size and desposition the
Javy and air force is also to be more or less disregarded. Which service than, can
qwalify to launch a coup in the U S A ? Small size, a permanent hard core of officers
and few baseis is necscary. Only one outfitfitsthat description and the U. S. M. C.
is a right wing infiltrated organization of dire potential consequence's to the freedoms of the U.S. I agree with former President T r u m a n when he said that "The
Marine Corps should be abolished."
2. M y second reason is that undemocratic, country wide insitution know as segregation. It, is, I think the action of the active segregationist minority and the great
body of indiffent people in the South w h o do the United States more harm in the
eyes of the worlds people, than the whole world communist movement, as I look
at this audience there is a sea of white facts before m e where are the negro's
amongst you (are they hiding under the table) surly if w e are for democracy, let
our fellow negro citizen's into this hall. M a k e no mistake, i-ft* segregationist
tendencies can be unleared I was born in N e w Orleans, and I know.
In russia I saw on several occiasions that in international meeting the greatest
glory in the sport field was brought to us by negros. Though they take the gold
metals from their Russian competitors those negros k n o w that w h e n they return to
their o w n homeland they will have to face blind hatred and discrimonation.
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Research Papers of

Harvey & Lee

" F a m RnrkW h a r ?; t 5 e S I A covert-action chief who introduced William

5. on New Year s Day 1963, Oswald ordered several political

6. Vaughn Marlowe, the executive officer of the Los Angeles chapter

7. Harold R. Isaacs (Rostow's co-worker at CENIS) is referred to as

9. Felipe Alvahuete, a secretary and aide of the late Leon Trotsky

Mr. JENNER. What did he tell you on that occasion'?

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Harvey Oswald. W e want to inquire of you as to any knowledge that you

both of the two brothers are deceased, is that correct?

Miss MURRET. Yes.

Mr. LIEBELER. About how old was he then? Do you remember?

Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know the correct spelling of his name?

have expected him to be, based on your recollection of him as a 2-year

Mr. LIEBELER. Did he talk to you about that at all?

photographs, m y mother and I, of where he lived. And that is when he said

when he w a s in Russia, any training that he might have gotten?

obtain money from the State Department or whomever he obtained it from

Mr. LIEBELER. W a s Lee there at that time?

Mr. LIEBELER. H o w about Riseman?

hour and a half.

Miss M U R R E T . He never mentioned anything of any political significance

just a rebellious kind of thing?

something happens, then you start formulating your opinions, of course.

Miss M U R R E T . Well, then, after that, I said, this kid-well, I just

something happens, then you start formulating your opinions, of course.

News reporters Robert S. Allen arid Paul Scott are

On interview April.23, 1964, Paul ScOtt advised a

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1LARILYN DOROTHEA MURRET

to England, France, Germany and Holland, on a three-week

On April 28, 1958, New Orleans Series Passport Number

On March 14, 1960, at-the 'Office "of the American Consul, -.

within seven months. Concerning her absences;from the;United#

This document contains neither recommendations nor.

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