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. She spoke to you nothing about the fact that he had a bad
heart?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, she told me that. She said he had a bad heart; a very
bad heart, I believe she said.
Mr. JENNER. And the man's sister had come down from Boston, and she
approved of Marguerite, and she urged Mr. Ekdahl to marry her; is that
right?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. And they did marry?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. No children were born of that marriage?
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't think she was married to him very long.
Mr. JENNER. They were divorced in 1948, I believe; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I don't know about the date on that.
Mr. JENNER. But they weren't married very long, and that marriage was
not, as far as you know, an entirely smooth one, was it?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, I only know what she told me. She told me what went
on.
Mr. JENNER. And you have already told us about that.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that was the reason for the divorce.
Mr. JENNER. Had she sold her house that she had here in New Orleans at
the time she married Ekdahl?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I think she did. She sold the Alvar Street home and
moved into the Bartholomew Street home, which was a small house. It was
a very low-priced residence.
Mr. JENNER. At 1010 Bartholomew?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; that's right.
Mr. JENNER. And then she sold that at a profit; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, that's what she said, and that was something else
about her; she started sort of getting into the business of buying
property and selling it and making money off of it and so forth, but
things don't just work out the way you want them to sometimes, the way
you would like them to work out.
Mr. JENNER. Did she also undertake to sell insurance at one time?
Mrs. MURRET. She said she did. The last time she was here, she said she
was selling insurance, but whether or not she did I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. You mean last fall; when she was here last fall?
Mrs. MURRET. I guess it was in the fall that she was here; yes.
Mr. JENNER. That was before the assassination?
Mrs. MURRET. Oh, yes.
Mr. JENNER. She said then that she was selling insurance?
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