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
Mr. JENNER. Oh, this incident occurred then back in 1961, would you say?
Mrs. MURRET. About the time Lee defected to Russia. Probably about that
time, 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
Russia right after that.
Mrs. MURRET. I just can't remember that.
Mr. JENNER. Now, would you tell me about the Oswald marriage?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I knew Lee Oswald. He was an insurance collector on
my 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
so 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 right?
Mrs. MURRET. No; he was already divorced from his wife when he
collected in my area.
Mr. JENNER. He was already divorced from his wife?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir.
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
Marguerite became acquainted?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I guess he just liked Marguerite enough to marry
her, and I believe Oswald was a Catholic--I'm not too sure of that--and
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 the
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. Go
ahead.
Mrs. MURRET. So they were married in a Lutheran Church, Lee Oswald and
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
religion. You are Catholic.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Have you always been Catholic?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, not always. I wasn't always a Catholic. My father
was 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
we went to Sunday school.
Mr. JENNER. He would see to it that you went to the Lutheran Sunday
school, to the Lutheran church?
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