Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mrs. MURRET. Aminthe.
Mr. JENNER. Is that A-M-I-N-T-H-E?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir.
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, Tenn.?
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?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; John was next.
Mr. JENNER. John was next?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and then Pearl and then Marguerite, and then Aminthe.
Mr. JENNER. Now, let me get those down by number. Number one was
Charles, 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 was
sixth. Marguerite was fifth, and Pearl was fourth.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, I've got it. I will recite it now just
so that we will have it straight in the record. There was Charles,
Lillian, then John, then Pearl, then Marguerite, and then Aminthe; is
that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir.
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.
Mr. JENNER. Did she die of natural causes?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. I mean, she didn't have tuberculosis, or anything like that?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. What was the occupation of your father?
Mrs. MURRET. My father was a motorman for New Orleans Public Service.
He worked for them approximately around 40 years.
Mr. JENNER. When you say motorman, do you mean streetcar motorman?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. They had those handbrakes at that time, and he taken
out the first mule car, I think--when 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?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you all attend and finish high school, other than John
who died when he was 18?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. Well, did John finish high school?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did Charles?
Mrs. MURRET. No. Charles went in the Navy during the wartime. He made
about, 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.
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