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. I don't say that I would. I may. I may have expressed it
before, but I thought he had a very childish handwriting.
Mr. JENNER. Did you see his handwriting often?
Mrs. MURRET. Only at the time when he was going to Beauregard School,
with his homework.
Mr. JENNER. Without noting that you have Commission Exhibit No. 540
before you, do you recognize that handwriting?
Mrs. MURRET. Wait till I get my glasses.
Mr. JENNER. All right; take your time.
Mrs. MURRET. I couldn't say I recognized it. It looks a little like,
something like his writing, I mean, the way he would write, but I
couldn't say for sure--I couldn't swear that that was his writing.
Mr. JENNER. You couldn't swear that he wrote this?
Mrs. MURRET. No.
Mr. JENNER. Does it look like what you recall his handwriting was?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, if it's anything, it's even a little better than I
knew him to write, I might say. I never thought he wrote very well for
his age, and he was 14 then, you know. Of course, a lot of boys don't
write good. Girls, you will find, are better at penmanship than boys.
You ought to see my son's writing. He graduated from law school, and he
don't write good either. Now, I think he was left handed.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you have caused me complications, Mrs. Murret.
Commission Exhibit 540 has a series of pages which are numbered at the
bottom, 148 through 157, both inclusive, purporting to be photostatic
copies of a diary or the memoirs of Lee Harvey Oswald, written in his
hand, and found by Irving, Tex., police and the city of Dallas police,
or at least certainly by the city of Dallas police; in his room.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, here's one that says that he was--you see, when he
stopped in that Saturday, you know, we didn't know where he was going,
but he said he was going to be stationed at Keesler Field----
Mr. JENNER. Is that Keesler Field at Biloxi?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes. But someone else said that they thought that when
he came to my house on that Saturday, when he stopped there, that he
was coming from Atlanta, Ga., that day, but anyway, we took Lee to
lunch that day and then dropped him off, if I remember right, by the
customhouse up here by the river, and that's all I remember about that,
and I never saw him any more after that until he turned up in Russia.
Mr. JENNER. After he defected to Russia?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir. I told him, I said, "Lee, if you are going to be
stationed over there, you can come over weekends."
Mr. JENNER. Did he say he was going to be stationed there?
Mrs. MURRET. At Keesler Field?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; he said he was going to be.
Mr. JENNER. And that is over at Biloxi, Miss.?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir; but he never did come over and see us, and he
never did write. I asked him to write, but he didn't write, and I never
heard any more from him. I didn't even know that he was back from
Russia.
Mr. JENNER. And you didn't know that he had gone to Russia either; is
that right?
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