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. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And a few months before his eighth birthday. Did Lee
eventually join you at Bethlehem?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; he did. The exact date I don't remember. I know
he was there for only a matter of months. He wasn't there as long as
Robert and I was.
Mr. JENNER. I show you a document I will have marked as John Pic
Exhibit No. 2, please, for purposes of identification which appears
to be a Xerox reproduction of an application blank executed by Mrs.
Marguerite Oswald and related minutes for admission of Lee Oswald to
the Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Orphan Asylum Association, dated at
New Orleans, December 26, 1942, and showing entry of Lee Oswald into
the orphanage asylum on the 26th day of December 1942.
(John Pic Exhibit No. 2 was marked for identification.)
Mr. JENNER. Sergeant, I direct your attention to the line on which
appears what purports to be the signature of "Mrs. Marguerite Oswald."
You are familiar with the handwriting, are you not?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Of your mother Marguerite?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And with her signature?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Drawing on that familiarity, is that signature the
signature of your mother?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. I offer in evidence the document now identified as John Pic
Exhibit No. 2.
Having done that, Sergeant, does that refresh your recollection as to
the time when your brother Lee Oswald was admitted to the orphanage
asylum?
Mr. PIC. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall it to have been sometime in late 1942 or
thereabout?
Mr. PIC. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. What is your recollection as to when he was--he joined you
at the orphan asylum.
Mr. PIC. I remember we were there a while, sir. He came, and to the
best of my recollection he didn't stay but 6 months at the longest, and
left again. I don't think--he wasn't there as long as we were.
Mr. JENNER. I direct your attention, Sergeant, to the fact your mother
has listed on this application her address as 111 Sherwood Forest Drive.
Mr. PIC. That address is familiar to me. Sherwood Forest Drive part of
it, the numbers are not.
Mr. JENNER. I wouldn't expect you to remember the exact number but the
street you do recall?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; I do. In fact, the Murrets lived on the same street.
Mr. JENNER. Is it your impression then that the address of 111 Sherwood
Forest Drive was probably the address of the Murrets?
Mr. PIC. No, sir; I wouldn't say that.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall your mother moving out of 1010 Bartholomew?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And so that it is your recollection that sometime between
your entry into the Bethlehem Orphanage at which time the family lived
at 1010 Bartholomew, that your mother and Lee or at least your mother
left, it must have been your mother and Lee, left the 1010 Bartholomew
residence and moved to another home on Sherwood Drive?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us about that. You put it in sequence as best you can.
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