Mr. JENNER. We will adjourn now and reconvene at 3 o'clock. (Whereupon, at 12:25 p.m., the proceeding was recessed.) TESTIMONY OF JOHN EDWARD PIC RESUMED The proceeding was reconvened at 3:25 p.m. Mr. JENNER. All right, Sergeant. Do you recall along about this time that you were in the Bethlehem Orphanage your mother became acquainted with a man by the name of E. A. Ekdahl and subsequently married? Mr. PIC. Yes, sir. Mr. JENNER. And it was about this time, around 1944, that you boys were withdrawn from the Bethlehem Orphanage and taken to Texas? Mr. PIC. Yes, sir. Mr. JENNER. Now, I will go back a little bit because I want you to put it in sequence. Before we adjourned for noon recess, I covered the matter of the period of the birth of Lee, the death of your stepfather Lee Oswald, and then brought you up to the Bethlehem School and stopped there. To the extent you have impressions commencing with, let us say, your entry into grammar school, at that time your stepfather Lee Oswald was alive. Mr. PIC. Yes, sir. Mr. JENNER. You were, when you entered grammar school that was kindergarten you were only four and half years old. Mr. PIC. Yes, sir. Mr. JENNER. Do you recall moving from place to place before you finally settled in---- Mr. PIC. I just remember one residence prior to Alvez and Galvez. Mr. JENNER. I see. Mr. PIC. Where that would have been, I don't remember. Mr. JENNER. OK. But you sort of settled down in 2109 Alvar? Mr. PIC. Yes, sir. Mr. JENNER. That your stepfather had purchased that home in 1938? Mr. PIC. Yes, sir. Mr. JENNER. And then you went along, he died about a year and a half later after he purchased it. Take us from the time that your stepfather died and tell us your impressions of how the home life changed; if it did change, what effect, if any, you observed that you now can recall that circumstances had on your mother; and what kind of life you and the boys began to lead as distinguished from the life you led while your stepfather was alive if there is any change now. I don't want to put any words in your mouth. Mr. PIC. Well, we were from the time of his death, placed in two boarding schools prior to Bethlehem, this Infant Jesus, and the other one I don't recall the name of, the other one being a day school. Mr. JENNER. Sort of a day school, your mother took you in the morning and brought you back. That is two of the boys, not Lee? Mr. PIC. Yes, sir. Mr. JENNER. He was almost a suckling child? Mr. PIC. I don't remember. I don't see how he could have been there. Now this day school was prior to Infant Jesus, it had to be. We went to Infant Jesus and out of there back home for a year or so where we attended Washington and then into Bethlehem. Like I said before, we were constantly reminded we were orphans and had financial difficulty.