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. EVANS. Oh, yes; it's just that a child couldn't get in the street.
I mean they are good fences, but they are not solid. You can see
through them--these sort of diagonals, I guess you would call them.
Now, the people that ran the place that he rented it from were sort of
caretakers. She lived on one side, and she ran the apartment on the
other side that they rented.
Mr. JENNER. What was her name; the lady who lived next door?
Mrs. EVANS. I don't know. I had her phone number and her name, and
I was going to call her--I did call her once that I remember, but,
nevertheless, I told Lee to give her the money for the gas and light,
in other words, the deposit, so she could get the electricity turned
on, because he wanted his wife to come for Saturday. I think this must
have been about Wednesday or Thursday that we were there. He said it
would be night before they got there, because this friend of his wife,
who talked Russian, was going to bring her over to New Orleans, and
bring the baby bed, bring everything, and that way, with the extra
room and everything, that the lady could stay overnight, this friend
of his wife, so we went on back and got in the car and rode on home,
and I think I went out and got some luncheon meat and some things, and
I think I ran to the grocery store, too, and got a pound of ham and
some stuff, and we sat and ate lunch, and he drank a coke, I think,
and we talked, and I asked him, I said, "Well, how does it feel to be
back in New Orleans?" and he said, "I have wanted to move back to New
Orleans." He said, "New Orleans is my home," and he said, "I felt like
I just wanted to come back," and he said, "You know, I like the old
high ceilings and the trees and the French Quarter, and everything in
New Orleans," and he said, "You know, in Russia the buildings are brand
new," and we talked a little about Russia--not too much, but he did
tell me how men over in Russia can't rent an apartment if they are not
married; that they have to live in rooms, so many men to a room; that
you have to be married to have an apartment; and he said that they were
all modern, and they are given to you by the Government, but that you
can only have an apartment if you are married; so we talked some more
about Russia, and about him giving up his citizenship and things.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me what he said about giving up his citizenship. I
want to hear all about that.
Mrs. EVANS. What he told me?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; what did he say about defecting to Russia; anything he
said about that?
Mrs. EVANS. He said he didn't give up his American citizenship; that
that was ridiculous. He told me that he just wanted to see the country
over there, and he had gotten work over there, and that he had fallen
in love with this girl, and we talked about the difference in the
housing here and over there, and he told me that they didn't pay any
rent, and they had a modern apartment, I think, about on the fourth
floor.
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