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. EVANS. Oh, about the regular time, I think. I don't think he ever
stayed away from school. I think he went to school all right, but, I
mean, he was arrogant, and nobody liked him. That was the thing.
Mr. JENNER. Did he ever associate with any of the children in the
neighborhood?
Mr. EVANS. No; he didn't. He didn't associate with anybody.
Mr. JENNER. Do you remember anything about his habits? Did he stay in
the apartment, or go out, or what?
Mr. EVANS. He stayed mostly in the apartment. Now, when he lived
upstairs in the apartment, he would go out on the front porch and read.
He always had a few books around, paper covered books.
Mr. JENNER. Paperbacks?
Mr. EVANS. Yes; paperbacks. He had a lot of them.
Mr. JENNER. Did he go to the public library and get books?
Mr. EVANS. Well, I don't know. I can't answer that, but he did a lot of
reading, but, you know, it was mostly this cheap stuff, I think.
Mr. JENNER. Would you say he was a voracious reader?
Mr. EVANS. Yes, he read; he read all the time. I mean, from what I
noticed by him being around the apartment.
Mr. JENNER. Did you notice any other traits about him that you wondered
about, or that you thought unusual or strange?
Mr. EVANS. He seemed to be in deep thought a lot of times--always
thinking. He was hard to get to.
Mr. JENNER. He was hard to get to?
Mr. EVANS. Yes; that's right.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever feel that you ever got to know Lee Oswald, Mr.
Evans.
Mr. EVANS. No; I can't say that I ever did. I don't think anybody did.
I don't think anybody even came close to it, because the way he was
nobody could figure him out. It was hard to get to him or to understand
him. He didn't want you to get too close to him, for one thing. He
never went out of his way to make friends, I mean, from what I knew of
him.
Mr. JENNER. He sort of shied away from friends, or people who might
have become friends, or who might have tried to be friendly with him?
Mr. EVANS. Yes; that's it. You would try to be nice to him, but he
wouldn't appreciate it, and he didn't mind showing you that he didn't
appreciate it. My sister-in-law's children tried to be friendly with
him when we had him across the lake to their house. They asked him
to go swimming with them, and everything, but he just wanted to be
by himself. Finally, the kids got so that they just didn't pay any
attention to him. Kids are like that, you know. If he wanted to be that
way, that was all right with them. They just went ahead and enjoyed
themselves, and to heck with him. They didn't let him bother them at
all with the way he acted.
Mr. JENNER. As I gather it, they tried to be friendly with him, but
when he wouldn't reciprocate, then they said, in effect, "OK, we won't
be friendly; see if we care"; is that right?
Mr. EVANS. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. Now, when they lived at your apartment, the address was
given there as 1454 and then later it was changed to 1452; what was
that all about? Could you explain that?
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