Mr. Jenner.

about which you were having trouble was that the family car or a car owned by you?

Mr. Pic.

A family car, I never owned a car, sir, when I lived at home.

Mr. Jenner.

I take it you had urged her to buy a new car to replace that one?

Mr. Pic.

We all wanted a new car, sir, because the other one wouldn't run. She had to get it pushed every morning to get to work. She would have us out in the street waving down people to help her get the ear pushed.
Further on, sir, "I wrote you and told you about a girl loaning me $50 on my ring, I lost the ring and wasn't able to pay it." Sir, I wouldn't believe that. I am sure at that time I didn't. And the way she goes on the next page, "Cox found out about me borrowing" and let her go. I don't believe this.

Mr. Jenner.

The next letter, Exhibit No. 32-B, and' in an envelope marked in 1950, it says "Dear John, Well, I have the house in Benbrook up for sale." Could you read the name?

Mr. Pic.

It appears to me to be J. Piner Powell Real Estate is handling it. Do you want me to read on?

Mr. Jenner.

Yes.

Mr. Pic.

"The problem is to find someone with enough cash as a loan company won't make a new loan and I have about $2,600 in it. Nothing but bad news. Up to date I am still not working." Read on, sir?

Mr. Jenner.

That is about enough. Did your mother write you a letter that had good news in

Mr. Pic.

I never recall one, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

Around your home was the atmosphere that, "We are poor but we will get along?" as your mother sought to lead you boys to accommodate yourselves to the circumstances that everything would turn out all right eventually?

Mr. Pic.

None of us really paid much attention to this, sir.- I didn't, and I am sure Robert didn't. I don't think Lee did because Robert and I would probably talk and we didn't pay much attention to it.

Mr. Jenner.

You heard it so often you just became inured to it, hardened to it; is that it?

Mr. Pic.

Well, we didn't believe it after the problems she put on. Just like when my wife and I got married she sent a package containing Revere Ware which I haven't received yet and she swears up and down she sent it, and she has never gotten it in the return mail either. And I know she never sent anything. When we would be home alone, before she would return from work, we have a rather friendly atmosphere, but as soon as she came home we all got into that depression rut again.

Mr. Jenner.

Was your--

Mr. Pic.

This is prior to my going in the service, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

There were times that the atmosphere around your home was depressing?

Mr. Pic.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

And was that due largely to your mother?

Mr. Pic.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

The things she said and the attitudes she assumed?

Mr. Pic.

That is correct, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

And while you and your brother got along well you boys were not getting along well with your mother in that sense?

Mr. Pic.

Robert and I and Lee, we had our fights among us, like all brothers do. But we could handle ourselves and our own problems, but the atmosphere just changed when she was around.

Mr. Jenner.

Did your mother ever say anything about whether people liked her or disliked her?

Mr. Pic.

She didn't have to. She didn't have many friends and usually the new friends she made she didn't keep very long.

Mr. Jenner.

That was her history?

Mr. Pic.

I remember every time we moved she always had fights with the neighbors or something or another.

Mr. Jenner.

Was she a person who was resentful of the status of others?

Mr. Pic.

Yes, sir.