Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. JENNER. This is Mrs. Helen Leslie of 4209 Hanover Street, Fort
Worth, Tex.
Mrs. LESLIE. Not Fort Worth--Dallas, Tex.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Leslie, would you stand and hold up your hand, please?
Mrs. LESLIE. Oh, yes.
Mr. JENNER. Do you solemnly swear that in the testimony you are about
to give you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth?
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Leslie, I am Albert E. Jenner, Jr., and I am a member
of the legal staff of the Warren Commission. The Warren Commission was
created pursuant to a Senate joint resolution creating the Commission
to investigate the assassination of the late President, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy.
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes, I know what it is.
Mr. JENNER. And all the circumstances surrounding it.
Pursuant to that legislation, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the
commission, of which the Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the
United States, is chairman.
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And that Commission has the assignment I have indicated to
you in the legislation. We are seeking on behalf of the Commission to
inquire into all pertinent facts and circumstances relating to that
assassination, and particularly to people who might or could have had
any contact with or knowledge of one Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife,
Marina Oswald.
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes, yes.
Mr. JENNER. In the course of some depositions that I have been taking
here in Dallas, mention was made by some of the witnesses of you.
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And possibly you might have some information. I do want to
assure you that all the references to you were in a complimentary vein
and I have sought to have this privilege of talking with you and taking
your deposition, because I think perhaps you might be helpful to us.
Mrs. LESLIE. I will be glad to--as much as I can.
Mr. JENNER. You just sit back and relax and nothing is going to happen
to you.
Mrs. LESLIE. I don't think I know very much; actually it is very little.
Mr. JENNER. Well, you appear voluntarily.
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes. Now, you want to know if I met the man and his wife?
Mr. JENNER. Maybe I can take it by easy steps, if you will let me.
Mrs. Leslie, you live in Dallas?
Mrs. LESLIE. I live here in Dallas. I can start for you from where I
was born, how I came here?
Mr. JENNER. All right, do that, will you?
Mrs. LESLIE. I am not young girl. I was born in Moscow in 1900. This
year on April 30, I will be 64 years old. I came to Dallas only 3 years
ago.
Mr. JENNER. 2 years ago?
Mrs. LESLIE. In 1960--it's only 3 years ago. I am a widow, my husband
died in 1947, whom I married--I married in 1923, so I am a widow about
17 years.
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