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. Well, not until he came in that Saturday.
Mr. JENNER. When he wanted to be stationed at Keesler Field?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right, that's what he said when he came through on
a Saturday, but then I never heard any more from Lee at all.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you have already touched on some information
regarding when he went to Russia. Marguerite communicated with you
about the fact that he was in Russia; is that right?
Mrs. MURRET. Well, like I said, my son-in-law contacted her because
we hadn't heard from her in a very long time, so he looked in the
telephone book over there and found her number.
Mr. JENNER. What is your son-in-law's name?
Mrs. MURRET. Emile O'Brien. He called her and he told us that she said
that she had this accident, like I told you before, so I called her, I
think, or her brother--I can't remember which. Anyway, we sent her a
box of clothes at Christmas time, anything that we could think of, and
then I sent her money at different times during the week, as much as
I could afford and so forth, and she said she was trying to get this
hardship discharge for Lee so he could leave the Marines and come home.
It was pretty near time for him to get out, but when he came in, he
only stayed there for 2 days at her house, or 1 day, or whatever it
was, and he said, "Well, this is it; this is not for me," and he left,
and that's when she called me and she said she thought he was coming to
New Orleans and that he would be coming by bus, she thought, and that
maybe he would be coming to my house, but for me not to tell him that
she had called me, but I never saw Lee or anything.
Mr. JENNER. Did he contact you at all?
Mrs. MURRET. No; I never saw Lee or never heard any more from him until
the next thing I knew was when she told me she received this letter, I
think, from Russia.
Mr. JENNER. She called you and told you about that?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, during all this time that he was in the Marines, he
didn't write you, did he?
Mrs. MURRET. I never heard from him; no, sir.
Mr. JENNER. The only time he saw you was on that one Saturday?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And when he was here on that Saturday, he told you he was
going to be stationed at Keesler Field.
Mrs. MURRET. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. Did he say anything about what his experiences had been in
the Marines?
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