Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
But it wasn't a kitchen knife or a big knife. It was a little knife.
So I will explain it that way, sir.
So immediately then I started to look for a place.
I did find a place, I think, off the Concourse. I do not remember the
street.
Mr. RANKIN. Was that in the Bronx?
Mrs. OSWALD. Off the Concourse, in the Bronx. And it was a basement
apartment.
I had shipped some of my furniture. It was in a storehouse at this
time. So I got it out and put it in this basement.
Lee had his own single bed. It was a one--one great big, big room.
But we had the kitchen--regular New York type style--the kitchen and
the bedroom and everything together, but large enough--a big one-room
apartment. And there was a single bed that Lee slept on, and I slept on
the studio couch.
Then Lee went to school.
Mr. RANKIN. Was that Public School 117?
Mrs. OSWALD. I have that information here.
Went to school in the neighborhood, Public School 117, which is a
junior high school in the Bronx. It states here he attended 15 of 47
days. This is the place we were living that Lee was picked up by the
truant officer in the Bronx Zoo.
I was informed of this at work, and I had to appear before a board,
which I did.
Lee went back to school.
Then he was picked up again in the Bronx Zoo. And I had to appear
before a board committee again.
Then the third time that Lee was picked up, we were--I never did get a
subpena, but we were told that he had to appear at Children's Court.
But I never--how I got the notice to appear at Children's Court--I am
at a loss, sir.
But I did not contact at this time a lawyer or anything. I did not
know. I did not think it was anything serious, because the Texas laws
are not like the New York laws. In New York, if you are out of school
one day you go to Children's Court. In Texas the children stay out of
school for months at a time.
Lee had never done this. So I appeared with my son in court. There was
a judge asked me if I want to be represented by court counsel. And I
believe I said, yes, I believe I was represented by the court counsel
at this particular time. And within a few minutes time--because there
were hundreds of people sitting, waiting with their truant children,
and it was just like this--you didn't take the time we are taking here,
a half hour, to discuss the case. It was done immediately.
My child was taken from me in the courtroom.
Mr. RANKIN. Had he been out of school quite a bit?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, sir. At this time, he had not been out of school quite
a bit.
So then I was given a slip of paper--no, I am sorry. I was told where
to go, where Lee was, which was another office.
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