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. You mean it was 99 blocks distance from your house to their
house?
Mrs. MURRET. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. All right, go ahead.
Mrs. MURRET. Well, they made this trip by streetcar and bus, and we
didn't even know they were coming, and they had the baby stroller and
everything that belonged to the baby with them.
Mr. JENNER. This is Lee and Marina, now?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. That was 2 weeks later that they came out to your house?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; and the baby. I was trying to make friends with the
baby and the baby was crying. It looked like the poor child never saw
anyone before in her life.
Mr. JENNER. You had this feeling, did you?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. You have reared some fine children, and you have
grandchildren?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. I take it you have a knack with babies and children?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you seemed to have trouble with Lee's baby, with this
baby?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; naturally she had never seen me before, and she
didn't speak the English language. Marina made her understand things
in Russian, and so I took the baby outside with me to make friends
with the baby and she kept crying, and Marina kept telling her to look
at me, and after a while she made friends, you know, and so then Lee
decided that they would go out.
I had a baby bed in the house which I have for all my children, and my
daughter still uses the baby bed, so anyway, Marina and Lee wanted to
go to the lakeside which isn't too far from my home.
Mr. JENNER. What is the lakeside?
Mrs. MURRET. Pontchartrain Lake. I guess that would be about 12 blocks
from where I live.
Mr. JENNER. About a mile-and-a-half?
Mrs. MURRET. About that. They decided to go crabbing, and so they got
a net and some crab bait, and the baby meantime went to sleep, so Lee
left the baby with me in the crib, and they went out to the lake.
Mr. JENNER. How did they get out there?
Mrs. MURRET. Marilyn drove them.
Mr. JENNER. Your daughter Marilyn?
Mrs. MURRET. Yes; she drove them out to the lake.
Mr. JENNER. Did Lee know how to drive a car?
Mrs. MURRET. I don't think he did. I never saw him drive a car.
Mr. JENNER. You have never seen Lee behind the wheel of a car,
operating an automobile?
Mrs. MURRET. Never.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever hear that he did know how to drive an
automobile, though?
Mrs. MURRET. No; I don't think he did, because when they went to New
York, when he went with his mother, she drove, she always drove. I
never knew him to drive.
Mr. JENNER. So anyway, Marilyn took them out to Pontchartrain Beach,
and they went crabbing; is that right?
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