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; her position at that time, so she told us, was that
she was a greeter for the city of Fort Worth. She would welcome people
to town and things like this.
Mr. JENNER. I think she was employed for a while in an organization
called Welcome Wagon. That is a national organization.
Mr. PIC. When she was employed is when she visited us. I think this was
Christmas of 1957, is that right?
Mr. ELY. I think that would be the same thing probably, Welcome Wagon
greets people.
Mr. PIC. Is this 1957 when she had that job?
Mr. JENNER. I am not sure of the date but it is true that during that,
when she returned to Fort Worth sometime along there she did have a
position of that character.
Mr. PIC. She stayed over the Christmas holidays, left approximately the
10th of January, sometime.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have conversations here about Lee during that time?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. What did she say?
Mr. PIC. Lee was in the Marine Corps, Lee was very happy to be in the
Marine Corps, Lee was proud to be in the Marine Corps. Lee loved the
Marine Corps. He just liked it.
Mr. JENNER. I see. What had occurred to Robert in the meantime? This is
December of 1957. Was he still in the service?
Mr. PIC. No, sir; he was not, I don't believe. I think he had gotten
discharged and gotten married, was residing in Fort Worth with his
wife.
Mr. JENNER. He was discharged in the spring of 1956-1957, rather; and
stayed at Exchange Alley for a short while.
Mr. PIC. I don't know that.
Mr. JENNER. Then went to Fort Worth and your mother and your brother
Lee followed and your brother Lee attended high school for about 6 or 7
weeks in the fall of 1957 in Fort Worth, Arlington Heights High School,
and enlisted in October 1957, in the Marines.
Mr. PIC. Lee enlisted in 1956, I believe.
Mr. ELY. 1956.
Mr. JENNER. 1956 was it. Then your brother Robert was discharged,
mustered out in 1956?
Mr. PIC. That sounds about right. And stayed in Exchange Alley a short
time, didn't like it, went on to Fort Worth.
After she left in January of 1958 we continued to communicate by mail
and every now and then a phone call.
Then in August of 1958 I received my orders to Japan, and we left
Mitchel and departed cross country.
Mr. JENNER. You and your wife and children?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. By what, automobile?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. By this time you owned an automobile?
Mr. PIC. My second one.
Mr. JENNER. Second one?
Mr. PIC. I purchased my first one when I was stationed in Virginia. We
arrived in Fort Worth, approximately 28, 29 October 1958. I remember we
were in her house on Halloween night because I pulled the car up behind
and locked the gates so I would not have my hub caps stolen.
Mr. JENNER. Where did she reside then?
Mr. PIC. I think you ought to refresh my memory on that. It was a
little circle. Did she have an address with a little circle, some kind
of circle or something?
Mr. JENNER. Do you have that?
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