Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) — John Shaqi
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. Are these impressions that you are about to give me and
I do want you to give them to me, gathered from recollection of the
course of events over a period of years?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Based on discussions in the family over a period
of years?
Mr. PIC. Based mainly on experiences in contact with my mother over a
period of years, sir.
Mr. JENNER. All right; tell us about them.
Mr. PIC. I think it was probably because it was cheaper to maintain
Robert and I over at this school than it was to maintain us at home. I
mean we boarded there, they fed us, went to school. I don't know what
the fee was but this was the impression I have now.
Mr. JENNER. While you boys were at the Catholic school, did your mother
and Lee leave, if you have a recollection of this, the 2109 Alvar home?
This would be sometime between the first of January 1940, and the time
you finished the second semester, let us say.
Mr. PIC. If this house between Alvez and Bartholomew is a green house.
Mr. JENNER. Green?
Mr. PIC. Green, I can remember it. You can tell me if it was green, I
don't know, sir. I remember a green house somewhere in this time period.
Mr. JENNER. Let me get at that this way. You and Robert were lodged
eventually in the Bethlehem----
Mr. PIC. Bethlehem Orphans Home, somewhere on St. Peters Street, New
Orleans. I think this was in 1942, though, this happened.
Mr. JENNER. Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Orphan Asylum.
Mr. PIC. Right. That is the name.
Mr. JENNER. Known as the Bethlehem Children's Home?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And--all right, now, you entered there on the 3d of January
1942. Is that your recollection?
Mr. PIC. That is my recollection.
Mr. JENNER. The winter of 1942?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; I know it was a little bit after the war was
declared.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, taking that date, January 1942, and going
back----
Mr. PIC. OK.
Mr. JENNER. To the end of the school year in 1940----
Mr. PIC. Well, the school in September 1940--I think I put in about
a year and a half in this Washington Elementary School after we were
taken out of Infant Jesus College.
Mr. JENNER. At that time didn't you live at 1242 Congress Street in New
Orleans?
Mr. PIC. Sir, if you have a map of New Orleans and show me where this
is maybe I can remember, but I don't remember anything but Bartholomew.
Mr. JENNER. For the purposes of refreshing your recollection the
records of the public school system of New Orleans reflect the
following: that you were enrolled at William Frantz School located at
3811 North Galvez when you were 4-1/2 years old on September 16, 1936.
You continued there thereafter until September 5, 1940.
Mr. PIC. September 1940.
Mr. JENNER. These records would show that you were discharged from the
William Frantz Elementary School on January 2, 1940.
Mr. PIC. That is better.
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