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. She didn't work the previous years. She was still married to
Mr. Ekdahl.
Mr. JENNER. I appreciate that. I wonder if he went to nursery
school--when you first went to Benbrook, Tex., when you were on
Granbury Road?
Mr. PIC. I wouldn't know that, sir.
Mr. JENNER. You have no impression?
Mr. PIC. That I don't remember.
Mr. JENNER. All right. You now started to work in the fall of 1948.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. The family moves into Fort Worth at 7408 Ewing Street.
Mr. PIC. That is correct, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And Lee and Robert enter school in Fort Worth.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Is that correct? Do you remember the school, one would be a
grammar school and one a junior high school.
Mr. PIC. I think Robert went to Sterling Junior High School. In fact,
she would drive him there in the morning, and Lee was going to Ridglea,
West Ridglea Elementary School, something like that.
Mr. JENNER. What happened to Lee? You were working.
Mr. PIC. Right.
Mr. JENNER. Robert was in school.
Mr. PIC. Right.
Mr. JENNER. And Lee was in school.
Mr. PIC. Right.
Mr. JENNER. Did Robert come home from school to take care of Lee when
he finished?
Mr. PIC. Lee returned home before Robert did, sir.
Mr. JENNER. What did he do?
Mr. PIC. I have no idea, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Your mother was at work?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. He would just come home and wait until somebody came home?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; there was no TV at that time so----
Mr. JENNER. Was he--what about his habits in that respect? Did--your
mother taught him to return home immediately and to stay in the house
until she arrived?
Mr. PIC. I am sure he always did, sir, knowing his personality. He was
not the type to goof off in things like this.
Mr. JENNER. Did you notice any tendencies on his part to do heavy
reading at this stage of his life?
Mr. PIC. He always read a lot, sir.
Mr. JENNER. He did?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. What about his--was he gregarious or not? Did he exhibit
tendencies to be with other people and children in the neighborhood or
the contrary?
Mr. PIC. Not too much, sir. There weren't that many children his age
in the neighborhood. In fact, most of them were my age and my brother
Robert's.
Mr. JENNER. Did this age gap between you and Lee and between Lee and
your brother Robert affect your relationships with him now that you had
reached the age you were now 16, Robert was 14, and Lee was 9.
Mr. PIC. We played with Lee. Lee had his dog. On the weekends, Sunday,
we would all go to the movies, the whole family. I usually went to work
at sunup and returned at dark myself.
In the fall of 1948 it was the fad among high school students and young
teenagers to join either the National Guard or Naval Reserve or some
reserve outfit like this, so I was only 16 at the time, and I wanted
to do this, and my mother thought it would be a real good way to
supplement the income. So----
Mr. JENNER. Did you get paid for this service?
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