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. Then in 1942 at 2136 Broadway, New Orleans; do you remember
that?
Mr. PIC. That's possibly right, but it don't ring a bell.
Mr. JENNER. Do you remember her being over in Algiers, 227 Atlantic
Avenue?
Mr. PIC. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Then about 1945 in Dallas, Tex., 4801 Victor?
Mr. PIC. I don't remember Dallas.
Mr. JENNER. You don't remember Dallas?
Mr. PIC. No; she could have, but I don't remember it.
Mr. JENNER. Do you remember Benbrook, Tex., in 1946?
Mr. PIC. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Covington, La., in 1946, in the summer of that year?
Mr. PIC. Covington, no; I don't remember sending checks there.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Fort Worth, Tex., 1947?
Mr. PIC. I do remember her being there; yes.
Mr. JENNER. 1505 Eighth Avenue?
Mr. PIC. Well, the address I don't know, but I know she lived in Fort
Worth about then.
Mr. JENNER. You do remember Fort Worth?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Do you definitely remember sending her $40 a month when she
was in Fort Worth?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And it was while she was in Fort Worth that the payments
were finally stopped, is that right?
Mr. PIC. Correct, sir; in 1950.
Mr. JENNER. In 1950?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. How did you transmit these checks to her, since she moved
around quite a bit, as we know?
Mr. PIC. Well, I would get a cashier's check from the Whitney National
Bank in New Orleans and sometimes the City Bank Branch, which our
company had an account in, and I could get it through without a lot of
red tape that way since I worked for the company and all. Now, those
addresses that you read off to me, she probably kept me posted where
she would be from time to time--you know, let me know where to send the
check.
Now, in 1950 I was of course still sending support to my son, and
through withholding I was able to claim him as a dependent, but I knew
he was getting up in age, 17, 18 years, and I made inquiry whether
he was still going to school, or was working, because the Treasury
Department called me in and said I made a claim for my son when he
had filed a tax return himself and in fact claiming his mother as a
dependent, so I got in trouble with the Treasury Department over that,
because I didn't know he was working.
Mr. JENNER. Did you learn in 1950 eventually that your boy was in the
Coast Guard?
Mr. PIC. Finally I did; yes. She sent me a picture of John, and to me
it looked like he was in the Navy, but I guess it was the Coast Guard.
So anyway after they told me he was working, I went to see my attorney
and explained it to him that the boy had reached the age where he was
self-supporting, and inasmuch as I had remarried and she had remarried,
it wasn't necessary that I send her any more money, so I wrote her a
letter and told her that I had no further legal obligation as far as
the law was concerned, so I advised her that that would be the last
check I would be sending her, and I heard no more from her.
Mr. JENNER. Have you seen your son John?
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