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. Yes; the one that brought Marina and the baby to New
Orleans.
Mr. JENNER. Well, we will get into that in a minute, Mrs. Evans; she's
not a Russian woman, by the way. She's a girl from Columbus, Ohio, that
was a Quaker.
Mrs. EVANS. Is that right?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. EVANS. Well, she did speak Russian, and she was the lady friend of
Marina that was going to bring Marina and the baby to New Orleans.
Mr. JENNER. Well, that's right; she does speak Russian?
Mrs. EVANS. He told me that his wife didn't speak American.
Mr. JENNER. Did he say why she didn't speak English?
Mrs. EVANS. Why she didn't?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; did he give you any reason for that, why she wasn't
learning the English language since she was living over here?
Mrs. EVANS. No; he didn't say anything about that.
Mr. JENNER. What impression did you have of Lee as of that visit,
Mrs. Evans, because you were with him for quite a while there on this
apartment hunting tour? What did you think of Lee?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, he was, I would say, sort of arrogant. He seemed to
think of himself as being sort of apart from everybody else, and he
carried himself so straight, and the way he had of avoiding people, and
keeping within himself, and, you know, not talking too much--I noticed
all that. I asked him how his mother was, and he said his mother
was fine, and I asked him about his brothers, because his brothers
were both in Texas, and I believe one of them has a child or two, or
something like that, and he said as far as he knew they were all right.
We were just sort of talking, you might say, on the surface. You know
how you do, riding along, and all the time looking for something--like
we were looking for apartment signs. We were getting out and looking,
and getting back in, and just driving around looking and talking about
things in general.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you used the expression "arrogant." What did you mean
by that?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, you know--I don't know, just the way he talked, and
walked around, I guess. I don't know what gives you that feeling when
you are around somebody like that. He was just different.
Mr. JENNER. Do you think he considered himself superior to anybody
else, or to his fellow Americans, or anything like that?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, I wouldn't say he acted like he was superior to
anybody else. He acted normal in that respect, I guess, but he talked
about Russia and he talked about the way they lived, and then he said,
"It's good to be back in the United States," and he said he would have
come back before he did if it had not been for this Russian girl that
he married. He said he had been in Texas 8 months then, and I said,
"Well, what made you come back to New Orleans?" and he said, "Well, you
know, this is my home, and I wanted to see my family."
Mr. JENNER. The Oswald family?
Mrs. EVANS. Yes. He said he wanted to see if he could locate any of his
family, that he didn't know who any of them were any more.
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