(Testimony of John Edward Pic Resumed)
Mr. Pic.
When we returned home I seen this house and my first impressions were that we are back to where we were. Lee had a dog that a woman had given him, I think it is the same dog we have pictures of, and I kind of had the feeling that our days at Chamberlain-Hunt were ended even though it didn't come officially. Then sometime in the summer of 1948, the divorce took place in Tarrant County, city of Fort Worth. I had to testify. I think they attempted to put Lee on the stand but he said that he wouldn't know right from wrong and the 'truth from a falsehood so they excused him as a witness being he was trader age.
I don't remember my testimony completely. I dc remember that my mother had made the statement that if Mr. Ekdahl ever hit her again that she would send me in there to beat him up or, something which I doubt that I could have done.
I was told by her that she was contesting the divorce so that he would still support her. She lost, he won. The divorce was granted. I was also told that there was a settlement of about $1,200 and she stated that just about all of this went to the lawyer. Right after this is when she purchased the house in Ben-brook, Tex., the little house.
Mr. Jenner.
Describe that house.
Mr. Pic.
It was an L--shaped house, sir, being the top of the L was her bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room with a screened-in porch. She and Lee slept together. My brother and I slept in the living room in the screened-in porch on studio couches. When we moved into this house and after the divorce and everything became final, I was--
Mr. Jenner.
Excuse me, was that 101 San Saba?
Mr. Pic.
No, sir; I don't know nothing about 101 San Saba.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you recall the street you were on in Benbrook; this first house?
Mr. Pic.
There were no streets. We used a post office box number up at the post office there. Because I was sending away for stamps at the time from different companies, and I was collecting stamps and I would go pick up the mail at the post office.
Mr. Jenner.
The first house in Benbrook was on Granbury Road, that is your recollection? That is the one you have already mentioned heretofore?
Mr. Pic.
Granbury Road is familiar, sir, if that is the one that is way far south of town on Granbury Road, then that is it.
Mr. Jenner.
Well, there is a letter in the file at the Hunt Military Academy in October of 1945 informing them that a new address would be Granbury Road, Route 5, Box 567 in Benbrook.
Mr. Pic.
That is the one further south of Fort Worth.
Mr. Jenner.
That is the first one?
Mr. Pic.
Right.
Mr. Jenner.
The house you are now mentioning in Benbrook was the summer of 1948 is different from the first one?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir; it is.
Mr. Jenner.
You can't remember the street address?
Mr. Pic.
There was no street address. This was the first and only house built there.
Mr. Jenner.
I see.
Mr. Pic.
They just built up this area and she got the very first house. Two pictures there, Lee and Lee's dog and this is taken at the house in Benbrook, that house.
Mr. Jenner.
Would you select those, please?
Mr. Pic.
These were taken in Covington.
Mr. Jenner.
Excuse me, the witness has referred to two pictures marked John Pic Exhibits Nos. 50 and 51. Those were taken when?
Mr. Pic.
It would be the summer of 1946 at Covington, La.
Mr. Jenner.
And those pictures are pictures of whom?
Mr. Pic.
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mr. Jenner.
All right.
Mr. Pic.
Holding a fish.
Mr. Jenner.
I offer in evidence John Pic Exhibits Nos. 50 and 51.
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