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. Did he say anything at all as to whether he was happy or
unhappy in Russia?
Mrs. EVANS. No; he didn't say anything about that, except he said he
would have come back sooner if he hadn't married this girl, and he had
to wait until he could bring her out of the country.
Mr. JENNER. Did he say anything about having been in the service?
Mrs. EVANS. No; he didn't say anything about that, but I found that
out.
Mr. JENNER. Did he say anything about what his ambitions were, what his
objectives were in life now that he was back home?
Mrs. EVANS. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did he have any luggage with him?
Mrs. EVANS. Not when he came to my house. He said he had been staying
at his aunt's.
Mr. JENNER. Did he talk about any of his old friends?
Mrs. EVANS. No.
Mr. JENNER. When he was a teenager, did he ever smoke?
Mrs. EVANS. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever know him to smoke?
Mrs. EVANS. No.
Mr. JENNER. Or drink?
Mrs. EVANS. No.
Mr. JENNER. Would you say he was temperate with respect to smoking?
Mrs. EVANS. No; he was very deep; a very deep boy, and he liked to dig
into things, and he liked music and books.
Mr. JENNER. Would you say he was a voracious reader?
Mrs. EVANS. Yes; he liked to read, and he liked to listen to the radio.
Mr. JENNER. What kind of music drew his attention, classics?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, symphony--more of the highbrow stuff, I guess you
would say. I don't really remember because this was so many years ago,
and I didn't go up to their apartment that much, you know; she would
come down to my apartment.
Mr. JENNER. Who would?
Mrs. EVANS. His mother, but I know he liked to listen to his records a
lot, and he had a lot of books all over the place, you know. His mother
would come downstairs in the evening sometime, you know, and we would
sit and talk, and sometimes even when she would just come in from work,
she would have dinner with me, or something like that, and that's the
way it was with Margie and me until we had this sort of falling out, I
guess you would call it.
Then after they moved to Texas, like I said, I didn't hear from them
for quite awhile, and then Lee came back and came to the house, and
we did all of that apartment hunting until we found him one, and then
after he had moved in, he called me one day and wanted to know if I
could come up and meet Marina.
Mr. JENNER. How long was this after he had moved into the apartment,
can you remember?
Mrs. EVANS. Oh, I'd say about a week or so, and anyway I thought it
would be nice to go up and meet Marina, and I told him we would try to
come up, because I would like to meet his wife, and he said, "Just come
anytime." He said she was anxious to meet me. Well, of course, I was
busy, so I didn't go, so one night while we were sitting and looking
at television here his face comes glaring up on the television screen,
and he had been arrested for passing out some kind of handbills or
something, and it told about this scuffling over this Cuban thing.
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