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. PETERMAN. Maybe along in there; she moved before 3 years, I know.
Mr. JENNER. You say she was inclined to keep to herself most of the
time?
Mrs. PETERMAN. Yes, she was.
Mr. JENNER. You didn't regard that as strange, did you?
Mrs. PETERMAN. No; I am a person like that myself. I don't bother much
with the neighbors.
Mr. JENNER. I take it from what you have told me, Mrs. Peterman, that
Marguerite Oswald was unmarried at the time, that she had just divorced
her husband, or been divorced by him, is that right?
Mrs. PETERMAN. Well, the first one I don't know, but the second one was
dead. He died and left her a widow. She told me that herself when she
moved there. Now, her first husband, I didn't know whether he was dead,
living, or what. She never mentioned him.
Mr. JENNER. When did you say you moved into that house?
Mrs. PETERMAN. In 1941.
Mr. JENNER. You moved there in 1941?
Mrs. PETERMAN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Well, in any event she was unmarried at that
time, is that right?
Mrs. PETERMAN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Do you know how she supported herself?
Mrs. PETERMAN. Well, at first I don't. I know she told me that she sold
her house, where they came from, but how much that was or anything I
don't know. She might have had insurance from him; I don't know. Then
later she opened a little dry goods store.
Mr. JENNER. A dry goods store?
Mrs. PETERMAN. I won't say a dry goods store--more like a grocery
store, I guess you would say--just a small place there in the front
room. She sold bread, milk, candy, and things like that.
Mr. JENNER. Where was that?
Mrs. PETERMAN. In her front room.
Mr. JENNER. The front room of her house?
Mrs. PETERMAN. Yes; it was a little grocery store.
Mr. JENNER. Would the local city ordinances permit that?
Mrs. PETERMAN. I don't know about that, but she did operate it for a
short time--not too long. Finally she gave that up, but as far as I
know that was the only money she had coming in at that time.
Mr. JENNER. Give me your impression of Mrs. Oswald, would you please;
what kind of person she was.
Mrs. PETERMAN. Well, like I said--I don't know how to explain it, but
she was a person who was not overfriendly, and she wasn't no snob
either. I can't say that, but I don't know. She was the kind of a
person that--I don't know how to say it. I mean, I had no trouble with
her, and she was a good mother to her children.
Mr. JENNER. She was?
Mrs. PETERMAN. That she was, and she would always keep, like I say, to
herself. She didn't do much talking, that is, to me; but now whether
she did to the other neighbors, I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. You didn't regard her conduct as strange?
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