(Testimony of John Edward Pic)
Mr. Jenner.
And a few months before his eighth birthday. Did Lee eventually join you at Bethlehem?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir; he did. The exact date I don't remember. I know he was there for only a matter of months. He wasn't there as long as Robert and I was.
Mr. Jenner.
I show you a document I will have marked as John Pic Exhibit No. 2, please, for purposes of identification which appears to be a Xerox reproduction of an application blank executed by Mrs. Marguerite Oswald and related minutes for admission of Lee Oswald to the Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Orphan Asylum Association, dated at New Orleans, December 26, 1942, and showing entry of Lee Oswald into the orphanage asylum on the 26th day of December 1942.
(John Pic Exhibit No. 2 was marked for identification.)
Mr. Jenner.
Sergeant, I direct your attention to the line on which appears what purports to be the signature of "Mrs. Marguerite Oswald." You are familiar with the handwriting, are you not?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Of your mother Marguerite?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, Sir.
Mr. Jenner.
And with her signature?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Drawing on that familiarity, is that, signature the situation of your mother?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
I offer in evidence the document now identified as John Pic Exhibit No. 2.
Having done that, Sergeant, does that refresh your recollection as to the time when your brother Lee Oswald was admitted to the orphanage asylum?
Mr. Pic.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you recall it to have been sometime in late 1942 or thereabout?
Mr. Pic.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
What is your recollection as to when he was- he joined you at the orphan asylum.
Mr. Pic.
I remember we were there a while, sir. He came, and to the best of my recollection he didn't stay but 6 months at the longer, and left again. I don't think- he wasn't there as long as we were.
Mr. Jenner.
I direct your attention, Sergeant, to the fact your mother has listed on this application her address as 111 Sherwood Forest Drive.
Mr. Pic.
That address is familiar to me. Sherwood Forest Drive part of it, the numbers are not.
Mr. Jenner.
I wouldn't expect you to remember the exact number but the street you do recall?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir I do. In fact, the Murrets lived on the same street.
Mr. Jenner.
Is it your impression then that the address of 111 Sherwood Forest Drive was probably the address of the Murrets?
Mr. Pic.
No, sir; I wouldn't say that.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you recall your mother moving out of 1010 Bartholomew?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
And so that it is your recollection that sometime between your entry into the Bethlehem Orphanage at which time the family lived at 1010 Bartholomew, that your mother and Lee or at least your mother left, it must have been your mother and Lee, left the 1010 Bartholomew residence and moved
to another home on Sherwood Drive?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Tell us about that. You put it in sequence as best you can.
Mr. Pic.
If there was anything between Bartholomew and Sherwood Forest Drive, I don't remember, sir. I do remember the Sherwood Forest Drive house, and if I remember right it was three or four doors down from the Murrets.
Mr. Jenner.
Where would that be in your recollection with respect to Bartholomew?
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