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; we would meet once a month and draw a day's salary,
something like this. It wasn't much money, a couple or $3 a meeting;
something like that. So we went to the notary, I think, this was
McLean's office and she swore to a notary that I was 17.
Mr. JENNER. But you were not in fact 17?
Mr. PIC. No, sir; I was 16. She gave my birthday as 17 January 1931.
Can we go off the record?
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. PIC. OK, so I joined the Marine Corps Reserve sometime in October
1948. I was attached to the 2d, 155th Military Howitzer Battalion,
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Fort Worth, Tex. About that time I started
thinking and decided regardless of how my mother felt what happened,
I was going to go back to school. So in January 1949 I went back to
school and finished my high school education.
Mr. JENNER. To what school did you return?
Mr. PIC. I attended Arlington Heights High School, sir.
Mr. JENNER. In Fort Worth?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Did you work after school? Did you do anything to
supplement your income?
Mr. PIC. I was able to retain my job at Everybody's as a stock boy for
about 1 month on this part-time basis but at the end of February they
informed me there was no way I could be kept on a part-time basis so
I left the job and I then got a job at Burt's shoestore. At Burt's
shoestore I was working part time but really making more than full time
because I was a stock boy at $15 and all the commissions I could make
in their stockroom plus all day Saturday.
Mr. JENNER. Selling shoes?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. What was your mother doing at this time?
Mr. PIC. I believe at this time, sir, she was working at Sterling's
Department Store in Fort Worth after leaving Leonard Bros., before I
left Everybody's, I think.
Mr. JENNER. Was Robert working after school?
Mr. PIC. Yes; he was working at the A & P.
Mr. JENNER. Had he been working at the A & P after school from the
previous fall?
Mr. PIC. This would be 1949. February 1949, and I am sure he was
working at A & P and going to school at that time, some time during
that period. He and I were both working and going to school, both.
So, in January 1949, I returned to high school, Arlington Heights High
School, Fort Worth, Tex., and was a junior, 11th grade there.
The school session ended and then I attended summer school to make up
for what I had lost at Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Tex.
Mr. JENNER. P-a-s-k-a-l?
Mr. PIC. P-a-s-c-h-a-l, sir; is the way they spell it, sir. I still had
the job at Burt's. So I attended summer school at Paschal, the summer
of 1949. September of 1949----
Mr. JENNER. Excuse me, what did Lee do now? Had he been in school in
the fall and winter of 1948 and the winter and spring of 1949?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, vacation is here. What did he do during the
summer? You went to school, and you worked at Burt's, what was he doing?
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