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
Now, whether this was all her idea or not, I don't know, because she
is 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.
During the summertime she rented a place at Covington so that she could
have her other two boys with her on vacation.
Mr. JENNER. Where is Covington?
Mrs. MURRET. Covington is right out of New Orleans, not too far away,
over the causeway. People more or less use it as a summer resort, and
they rent homes 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
there with the boys in the summer.
Mr. JENNER. Now, this was when she was married to Ekdahl; is that right?
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 this
was 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't
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.
The next I heard, well, she was back in Texas. Now, I don't know about
that, 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.
Mr. JENNER. Here in New Orleans?
Mrs. MURRET. No; in Texas, Fort Worth. So it seems like--this is what
she 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
introduced herself as Mrs. Ekdahl, and this lady answered instead, "You
are not the Mrs. Ekdahl that I know."
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