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. The fact is that they did.
Mr. PIC. I know. I have no reason to doubt that. What was the amount?
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. JENNER. When you were in the service did you make any allotment to
your mother?
Mr. PIC. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Did you send her any money at any time while you were in
the service?
Mr. PIC. Quite frequently, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us about that. Tell us as best you can the amount.
Mr. PIC. When I was in boot camp from January 1950 to May 1950, the
only amount they paid us was $15 every 2 weeks and they held back the
rest of our pay until we would graduate and then we would have money to
go to our next station with. They do this to recruits. I don't remember
if I sent any of this 15 or not, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Did you send any of the excess when you got it?
Mr. PIC. In those letters I presented you could add them up and see how
much I sent in the year 1950. I think I sent $10, $20 at a time when I
had it. I was making $80 a month. How much could I send and still be a
sailor?
Mr. JENNER. This is not in any sense a criticism, sergeant. All I am
doing is seeking some facts.
Mr. PIC. Well, sir, in the letters she refers to 10, 20, 40, sometimes.
Mr. JENNER. I show you John Pic Exhibits Nos. 48 and 59, and referring
to No. 48, at the bottom of which is written Lee, age 2-1/2. Would you
identify that, please?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; this is Lee Harvey Oswald age 2-1/2 as the picture
states written in the handwriting of Mrs. Marguerite Oswald. This
picture was taken at Lillian Murret's at Sherwood Forest Drive.
Mr. JENNER. That was your aunt's home in Sherwood Forest, New Orleans.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; I am sure of that.
Mr. JENNER. I show you John Pic Exhibit No. 49 which--would you
identify that?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; this is a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald, I guess at
the same time, with a dog, and I am sure this was taken at Lillian
Murret's in Sherwood Forest Drive.
Mr. JENNER. At the same time that John Pic Exhibit No. 48 was taken?
Mr. PIC. Yes; I think so.
Mr. JENNER. All right. I hand you now John Pic Exhibit No. 56, a
photograph of a young man. Would you identify that as to time and place
if you can, and age, his age, the subject's age?
Mr. PIC. Sir, this is a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald which I believe to
have been taken when he was in about the second or third grade.
Mr. JENNER. That would be when you were living in Dallas?
Mr. PIC. Fort Worth, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Fort Worth, yes; 7408 Ewing.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. I hand you John Pic Exhibits Nos. 57 and 58. I don't know
which depicts this young man at the younger age. Take the younger one.
Mr. PIC. Exhibit No. 57, sir, I believe was taken either in late
1951 or early 1952, and it shows a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald
approximately how he looked when he came to New York to stay with my
wife and I in August of 1952.
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