(Testimony of John Edward Pic Resumed)
Mr. Jenner.
I see.
Mr. Pic.
If you can give me a map of Dallas?
Mr. Jenner.
You never heard of it?
Mr. Pic.
Give me a map of Texas and I can show you where approximately the school was and I will show you where it was.
Mr. Jenner.
You did, after that summer school period in the summer of 1944, enter grammar school in Dallas?
Mr. Pic.
That is right. Davy Crockett Elementary School. I entered the 7th grade and Robert entered the 5th.
Mr. Jenner.
Let's see, Lee is now almost 5 years old. Did he enter Davy Crocket at that time?
Mr. Pic.
To the best of my recollection, no, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
At that age he would be going to kindergarten anyhow. All right, you and Robert then entered Davy Crockett?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
You continued on at Davy Crockett in the fall semester?
Mr. Pic.
Just a moment.
Mr. Jenner.
Yes?
Mr. Pic.
This house we went to in Dallas.
Mr. Jenner.
Yes.
Mr. Pic.
My mother owned it and rented the rest of it or she owned one side of it.
Mr. Jenner.
It was a duplex?
Mr. Pic.
Right.
Mr. Jenner.
Myrtle Evans testified that she recalled visiting you, the family, on a trip she made to Dallas on one occasion, on a buying trip or something or accompanied a friend of hers, it was on a ladies' apparel buying trip and she remembered it as what she called them, two-place houses. To me they are duplexes.
Mr. PIC. Right; duplex.
Mr. Jenner.
So her recollection is fairly good then. Does that affect your recollection that it was a four- apartment building rather than it was a two-apartment building?
Mr. Pic.
I am pretty sure it was four apartments.
Mr. Jenner.
Okay; go ahead.
Mr. Pic.
Well, I was under the impression and always have been that she owned the house, and there was some arrangement with Mr. Ekdahl as to how she got it or something. She was renting to one couple upstairs, I know; is this right?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes.
Mr. Pic.
We are in Davy Crockett Elementary School, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Carry on.
Mr. Pic.
Well, that would be September 1944. In the summer of 1945 she married Mr. Ekdahl. I think you dated that as March or April.
Mr. Jenner.
She married. trim, in fact, on May 7, 1945. I said March before; I misspoke. It was May 7, 1945.
Mr. Pic.
I have got summer. It is pretty good.
Mr. Jenner.
Did he then move into the 4801 Victor Place?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir; she took a short honeymoon for a day or two and came back and moved in.
Mr. Jenner.
In the summer of 1945 did you and Robert continue on at--through that summer in Dallas?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
That following September, however, you transferred to some other school; did you not?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir; and we were aware of this school before the school session ended in 1945. I knew before we left Davy Crockett we were going.
Mr. Jenner.
What was the name of that?
Mr. Pic.
In September 1945, sir, Robert and I entered Chamberlain-Hunt Academy, military school for boys, Port Gibson, Miss.
Mr. Jenner.
And you were aware of that--that that was forthcoming?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir; as early as May 19451 think.
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