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
She didn't want to go to the welfare, because once the welfare goes
into a case and gets hold of a child, you have nothing but red tape and
everything, and sometimes you have a hard job getting your child back,
so she didn't want to fool with them, and yet she couldn't put him in
the home, so she said there was nothing else for her to do but to try
to get somebody to take care of him, which she did, and she was sorry
she ever did that.
Mr. JENNER. You say Lee denied to you during your discussion with him
that he had ever tried to give up his American citizenship?
Mrs. EVANS. Yes; he said that he never intended to do that, but he just
wanted to see the country, over in Russia, and see how they live and
how the country looks, and so he went into Russia and got a job there
and was working, and then he met this girl, and they got married, and
he told me he would have been back sooner if he had figured out some
way to get her out of the country. Actually he didn't seem to want to
talk too much about it, and I didn't try to pump him too much, but I
was just curious to see if he had had any change of mind, and what had
really happened. I do feel that he was sympathetic with the Communist
system of government, I mean, of the Russian system, but now I was only
with him a few hours, and we just generally talked about his mother and
his brothers, and his job, and looking for an apartment, and he didn't
even tell me at the time that his wife was expecting another baby, and
I was surprised when I heard that.
Mr. JENNER. What did he say about his brothers and his mother?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, he said the boys where in Texas, and that his mother
was fine, and that she was in Texas, and I think Robert, or one of
them, had a couple of children. I think that was Robert that had a
couple of children, and we just talked generally about things like
that, you know.
Mr. JENNER. Did you get the impression that he was patriotic toward the
United States, or what kind of an impression did you get in talking to
Lee?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, like I said, he seemed to be sympathetic toward
Russia, but he told me that he was glad to be back in the United
States, and that the only reason he was in Russia working at all was
because he had married this Russian girl and wanted to get her out of
the country, or he would have been back sooner.
Mr. JENNER. Did he say anything about his having served in the Marines,
anything about how he felt about that service, or did you know he was
in the Marines?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, I sort of half way knew about it, maybe from his
aunt; I don't know, but I don't even remember if Lee mentioned that
fact in our discussion that day. I don't really remember that. I do
know that he always wanted to go in the Marines.
Mr. JENNER. He always wanted to go into the Marines?
Mrs. EVANS. Yes; he did.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me about that. How do you know that?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, because when he was going to Beauregard, he wanted to
be a marine.
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