(Testimony of Mrs. Lee Harvey , Edith Whitworth, Oswald)
Mrs. Hunter.
I sure did.
Mr. Mckenzie.
And was it in the same automobile you had seen her in before at the filling station?
Mrs. Hunter.
No.
*Mrs. OSWALD. Not the same? Not the same?
Mr. Mckenzie.
Did you go outside and see the automobile?
Mrs. Hunter.
I was standing in the side door looking up and down the street while she had went with them to the back. Now, I didn't hear her say nothing and I don't know whether she said something to the little girl, or what she said, but she did go "shhh." She could have said "shhh" or something, but I remember her making some kind of a remark to the little girl.
Mr. Mckenzie.
To quiet the little girl?
Mrs. Hunter.
Yes.
Mr. Mckenzie.
Now, at that time did you notice the automobile in front?
Mrs. Hunter.
Can I tell him what I told you?
Mr. Liebeler.
Yes.
Mrs. Hunter.
Well, what I meant--I didn't want to do something that I shouldn't. I was looking for some friends of mine from Houston that drove a two-tone blue and white Ford--a 1957--I think it was, and when this car drove up, I left a note on my mailbox when I left the house and I told them if they come while I was gone to come down to this place, because I would be there, or left her telephone number on the note too, and when they drove up--
Mr. Liebeler.
Who is "they" now?
Mrs. Hunter.
Mr. and Mrs. Dominik from Houston, and when this car drove up, I thought it was them and I just said, "Well, my company has come," and that was it and when I seen he was getting out of the car I just seen then that it wasn't, and I just sat back down in the platform rocker there where I was sitting. It was a partition in the front part of the store and I was sitting right here in platform rocker and there was some tables and chairs over here and I had opened this side door. She had it shut and I had opened it.
Mr. Mckenzie.
Did your friends from Houston come while they were there?
Mrs. Hunter.
No; they never did come up until later on, and he come up in a truck--several weeks later.
Mr. Mckenzie.
Was there anybody else in the automobile that drove up that they got out of?
Mrs. Hunter.
No; just her and him and the two children. Now, I wasn't up close to the car. I was standing in the door and the car was parked over here something like this, and somebody could have been down in the floorboard of the car--I wouldn't say they wasn't.
Mr. Mckenzie.
Did you see who was driving the automobile?
Mrs. Hunter.
He got under the steering wheel.
*Mrs. OSWALD. Lee?
Mr. Liebeler.
And you saw him drive the car?
Mrs. Hunter.
I seen him at the steering wheel, under the steering wheel, and if there was someone else, now, in there, you couldn't see them.
Mr. Liebeler.
Well, in any event, Mr. Oswald got behind the steering wheel of the car and he drove the car out of the parking lot in front of the building somewhere; isn't that right?
Mrs. Oswald.
I have never seen Lee drive the car in my lifetime. Lee never drove a car with me or the children in it. The only time I saw him behind the wheel was when Ruth Paine taught him to drive the car, he was practicing parking the car when Ruth Paine was teaching him to drive.
Mr. Liebeler.
And that was all in front of Mr. Paine's house; wasn't it?
Mrs. Oswald.
Yes. I'm sure this lady is trying to tell the truth, but the only possible person who could have driven the car when we were in that store could have been Mrs. Ruth Paine. She knows all the stores where we went because we never went there without her.
Mrs. Hunter.
Well, you've got your privileges---you've got your privileges.
Mr. Mckenzie.
Mrs. Hunter, back in September or October when you were in the Shell filling station and Mrs. Oswald and the little girl here, June, and another lady happened to be there---that was the occasion when your husband
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