Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. JENNER. Tell me when, as closely as you can fix it. Let me put
it this way. Tell me first the circumstances under which you became
acquainted, what led up to it and how it occurred, and then fix as
closely as you can when in 1962 you did become acquainted.
Mrs. GIBSON. Well, my stepmother and my father called me up.
Mr. JENNER. Your stepmother is Jeanne De Mohrenschildt?
Mrs. GIBSON. Jeanne; and my father called me up one evening and asked
me----
Mr. JENNER. At your apartment?
Mrs. GIBSON. At my apartment; and asked me if I would please take care
of Marina Oswald's child while she went to the dentist, and could she
stay overnight with me because she had two appointments in a row, one
on one day and one the next day, and I said all right. And as for the
date, I imagine you know it better than I do.
Mr. JENNER. I don't know anything better than you do.
Mrs. GIBSON. If you give me the date on the pads. I don't remember the
dates at all.
Mr. JENNER. Was it the month of September?
Mrs. GIBSON. No. As I said, I thought it was before September.
Mr. JENNER. Before September?
Mrs. GIBSON. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Do you remember anything about the weather?
Mrs. GIBSON. It was very hot, but I don't remember the month. It could
have been----
Mr. JENNER. Could it have been in August?
Mrs. GIBSON. It could have been the latter part of August. It seems to
me that would be about right.
Mr. JENNER. Can you recall anything about what your father and/or your
stepmother said to you in identifying these people? You were naturally
curious as to who they were?
Mrs. GIBSON. They told me that they were recently, Marina and Lee were
recently here from Russia, and hadn't been in Dallas very long, or Fort
Worth, wherever they were staying, and that she had a child the same
age as mine, and that my stepmother thought it would be very nice if
we got acquainted. And she said Marina was around my age, and asked if
I would please help them out since they didn't have any room in their
apartment to keep her while she had these dental appointments.
Mr. JENNER. That is, they didn't have any room in the De
Mohrenschildts' apartment?
Mrs. GIBSON. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. From that conversation you became aware, had the impression
that your father and your stepmother had had some prior acquaintance
with these people?
Mrs. GIBSON. I think they just recently met them.
Mr. JENNER. That was the impression?
Mrs. GIBSON. That was the impression I got.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall what day of the week--that is, not the
particular date as such, but was it a weekday, a Saturday, or a Sunday?
Mrs. GIBSON. It was a weekday. Whether it was in the beginning of the
week or the middle or the end I don't remember, but it was a weekday.
Mr. JENNER. What time of day was it?
Mrs. GIBSON. Well, they called me the night before, but it was in the
early morning of the next day.
Mr. JENNER. That you met Marina?
Mrs. GIBSON. That I met Marina.
Mr. JENNER. Did Marina come alone?
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