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. DELGADO. I believe it was Kings County Hospital.
Mr. LIEBELER. Your parents still reside in Brooklyn?
Mr. DELGADO. 303 47th Street. That's what my address was during the
Marine Corps, but right now the neighborhood is tore down, so there's
no record of it now.
Mr. LIEBELER. Your parents reside in Brooklyn?
Mr. DELGADO. No. My parents are divorced. One lives in Puerto Rico, and
my mother lives in California.
Mr. LIEBELER. You lived at the address in Brooklyn that you just gave
me from the time you were born until the time you went into the Marine
Corps; is that correct?
Mr. DELGADO. That's correct.
Mr. LIEBELER. Tell us briefly where you went to school.
Mr. DELGADO. That's pretty hard to keep track of, because I was like
a yo-yo, back and forth from one parent to the other. But I went to
school in P.S. No. 2.
Mr. LIEBELER. In Brooklyn?
Mr. DELGADO. In Brooklyn, until the third grade, and I was transferred.
I went to California with my mother. I was there in the Park Avenue
Grammar School from the third grade to the fifth.
Mr. LIEBELER. What city in California?
Mr. DELGADO. Wilmington, Calif. And then I went back to New York, back
to P.S. No. 2 for the 5th grade to the 6th, graduated from there, went
to public school, Dewey Junior High School--I don't know what P.S. it
is--from the 7th grade to the 8th and then went back to California and
went to Wilmington Junior High School from the 7th to the--about the
11th grade, and the 11th grade I went back to Brooklyn into Manual
Training High School and dropped out after the 11th grade.
Mr. LIEBELER. You have not graduated from high school?
Mr. DELGADO. No. I have my high school graduation through USAFI.
Mr. LIEBELER. That is the United States Armed Forces Institute; is that
correct?
Mr. DELGADO. That's correct.
Mr. LIEBELER. When you dropped out of school here in Brooklyn, did you
then join the Marine Corps?
Mr. DELGADO. No. I held a job for a while at Van Dyk & Reeves, on 42d
Street and 2d Avenue, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Mr. LIEBELER. What kind of a job was that?
Mr. DELGADO. It was just a regular laborer at an olive factory, making
Maraschino cherries and olives and so forth. And it lasted about 2-1/2
months, and I joined the Marine Corps.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do both of your parents speak Spanish?
Mr. DELGADO. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Are they both from Puerto Rico originally?
Mr. DELGADO. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Approximately when did they come from Puerto Rico?
Mr. DELGADO. My father came when he was roughly 20 years of age. My
mother came when she was about 13.
Mr. LIEBELER. Approximately hold old are your parents now?
Mr. DELGADO. My father is around 48. My mother is about 42.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where did you join the Marine Corps?
Mr. DELGADO. Down at Whitehall Street, in New York City.
Mr. LIEBELER. What training did you receive? Where were you sent?
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