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. About 2 weeks, 3 weeks, maybe more, until she got on her
feet, and we took Lee out to ball games and bought him things, and we
tried to make him happy, but it seemed like he just didn't want to get
out of the house. I mean, he wouldn't go out and play. He would just
rather stay in the house and read or something.
Mr. JENNER. He wouldn't want to go out and play with the other children?
Mrs. MURRET. No, he wouldn't. We didn't have a television. Even though
I had a husband, my sister always seemed to have more than I had. She
was working, and somehow she had an automobile and a television and
things that I didn't have. It was years after television had come out
before we had one. We did have a radio, and Lee would take it in the
back room and listen to the radio and read. He would read funnybooks
and I would try to get him to go outside and play with the other
children, but he wouldn't go out, so finally I just made him get out,
so he did for a day or so, but then he came right back in and would go
right back to reading and listening to the radio, and I practically
pushed him out again, because I didn't think it was healthy for him to
stay in the house all the time, just to stay in that room by himself,
but finally I decided that that was what he wanted, that that was his
way of life, what he wanted to do, and there wasn't much I could do
about it.
We took him out after that, but he didn't seem to enjoy himself, so
finally I told her to come and get him, that we didn't like for him to
be there any more, because we had tried to do all we could for him.
Now, maybe she thought we didn't like him, but that wasn't it. It
was just that he wouldn't go out and play, and he wanted to be alone
in that room all the time, and he wouldn't even talk to the other
children, and he was obviously very unhappy, but anyway she came down
and got him. In fact, he told her to come and get him.
Mr. JENNER. How do you know that?
Mrs. MURRET. Because I saw the letter.
Mr. JENNER. He wrote a letter to her asking her to come and get him?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; I wasn't supposed to see the letter, but I did.
Mr. JENNER. You saw the letter before it was mailed?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And he expressed in that letter some discomfort in being at
your home, did he?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And he was under the impression that you didn't like him?
Mrs. MURRET. I guess so, because he wrote and told her that nobody
around there liked him, and here everyone was knocking themselves out
for him.
Mr. JENNER. Where was your sister living at that time, in Fort Worth?
Mrs. MURRET. I think so; yes.
Mr. JENNER. On the occasion that she came from New York and stopped off
in New Orleans, did she stay with you for a few days?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, she stayed with me until she found an apartment.
Mr. JENNER. That was in your home at 757 French Street?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; and that address was changed to 809 French
Street.
Mr. JENNER. How was that?
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