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. That's right; I didn't want to take a chance in getting
involved in anything like that. However, I will say this, I would have
loved to meet Marina. Maybe you can call it curiosity, or something,
but I did want to meet her. She seems to be such a lovely person. I
couldn't tell you where they lived in Texas. I never heard from them
any more after that. I would have liked to tell his mother how sorry I
felt for the loss of her son, and things like that, but I just don't
know how to go about something like that now. I guess it's just one of
those things, but I sure do feel sorry for her.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me this: In the time that you knew Lee, did he pretty
much get his own way? Would you be able to say as to that?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, I would say he did; definitely. She would try to give
him everything he wanted--that she could, I mean, and do everything he
wanted her to do. I've seen that happen many times in the time that
I knew them and especially while they lived at my house. I mean, she
couldn't give him a lot of material things. She just didn't have much,
you know, but she would try to pacify him. That boy was so inclined
to be within himself, that it was hard to figure him out. I guess no
one will be able to tell what was really in his mind. They called him
a "loner", and I guess that's about the best description you can give
him. He was certainly a quiet type boy.
Mr. JENNER. What did you observe with respect to his relations with
other children? Just how did he regard them?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, to be truthful with you, I never really saw him with
anyone except his mother practically.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall when you had a discussion with Marguerite
with respect to her leaving Lee with a couple?
Mrs. EVANS. Oh, yes. Marguerite told me that she had this couple at
her home looking after Lee. Lee wasn't 3 at that time, you see, and so
he wasn't old enough to put in a nursery, but then the neighbors began
telling her that they were cruel to her child when she wasn't home,
and that the child was doing a lot of crying, and so she came home
from work early one day, and she said her baby was screaming, and he
had welts on his legs, and that this man had beat her baby, and so she
put them out that night. Now, who they were or what their names where,
I don't know, but she said that no one would take Lee, and she just
didn't know what to do with him while she was working, so that's why
she got this couple in the first place.
Mr. JENNER. Why wouldn't anybody take Lee?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, I mean, she couldn't put him in a home.
Mr. JENNER. Because he was too young?
Mrs. EVANS. Because he was too young, that's right. The older boys
could be put in a home--in fact, of course, they were, but Lee was not
yet 3 years old, and they have to be 3 before a home will take them.
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