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. Let me interrupt you there for a minute now. That's the
first you ever heard, or the first knowledge you had, that Lee Oswald
was mixed up in any way with this sort of activity, is that right?
Mrs. EVANS. Oh, yes; I had no idea that he was mixed up in anything
like this, and I was shocked when I saw his face come on the screen
passing out these handbills in connection with this Cuban thing, so
I told my husband, "Well, they said he went to Russia to give up his
American citizenship; well, maybe he has." I said, "I am certainly not
going up there now," so I didn't go, and I don't know whether this was
before that or after that, but I called up the lady that had rented the
apartment to them--I had asked her for her phone number at the time,
and I told her at the time that I would try to send her some tenants,
so she did give me the number, so I called one time to see how the
Oswalds were getting along. Evidently this must have been after that. I
don't remember. So anyway I called and said----
Mr. JENNER. Would that have been Mrs. Garner?
Mrs. EVANS. Yes; that's right; Garner. I told her, I said, "This is
Myrtle Evans, who helped Lee Oswald get that apartment; how are the
Oswalds getting along," and she said, "You know, they are a queer kind
of people," and she said, "I just told him, 'After all, how do you
expect your wife and your child ever to speak the English language when
all you ever talk to them is in Russian'?" She said, "I told him, 'This
girl doesn't know a word of English, and I can't converse with her at
all'," and she said, "I asked him why he didn't talk to her in English
and let her learn some English so that she can talk to the people that
live here in this country, instead of always in Russian."
Mr. JENNER. What did she say he said when she said that?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, she said he didn't say anything. She said she tried
to help them in different ways, but they didn't seem to want her to
help them, and that the girl couldn't talk a word of English, so she
couldn't understand her anyway. She said that Lee had for some reason
always talked to her in Russian. She said she told him, "She will
never learn to speak English if you keep talking to her in Russian."
Now, that must have been prior to the time that I saw this deal on
television, and then the next thing I knew about Lee, it was all over
television, that he had killed the President, and the rest of it you
know. I didn't even know he was back in Texas. I thought he was still
living on Magazine Street and working at the Reily Coffee Co.
Mr. JENNER. You didn't know he was back in Texas?
Mrs. EVANS. No; because I never did go back when I saw this flash about
the Cuban situation on TV and Lee's picture all over the screen. I said
"If he is Russian, I don't want to get dragged into it. Maybe they will
think I had something to do with it."
Mr. JENNER. So you just stayed away, is that right?
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