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. What street?
Mr. JENNER. Broadway.
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't.
Mr. JENNER. 2136 Broadway?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. That was just a month, about the middle of August to about
the 10th of September 1942.
Mrs. MURRET. I know nothing of that.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall their residing at 227 Atlantic Avenue in
Algiers?
Mrs. MURRET. No, I don't. That's possibly where the boys were over
there. Is that an orphanage, or whatever it was?
Mr. JENNER. I don't know. Is there an orphanage over at Algiers?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. That's not the Bethlehem place, is it?
Mrs. MURRET. No, I don't know what orphanage that was, but they were
over 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 institution?
Mrs. MURRET. It's way down off of St. Claude Street somewhere, way down
on 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
afraid I am wrong about that. I think that was 1945 that she married
him, which squares more with your recollection.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, I think so, because that's what I thought. Lee was
around 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
Texas 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
recollection on that?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, she lived a couple of places, you know. Do you mean
after she married Mr. Ekdahl and moved to Texas, to Fort Worth?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. MURRET. I don't know the address at that time. I just don't
recollect 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
from 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 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,
Tex., first and lived on Victor Street, 4801 Victor Street, in 1945 up
until 1946, and then they moved to Fort Worth.
Mrs. MURRET. Oh.
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