Mr. Jenner.

They were divorced in 1948, I believe; is that right?

Mrs. Murret.

Well, I don't know about the date on that.

Mr. Jenner.

But they weren't married very long, and that marriage was not, as far as you know, an entirely smooth one, was it?

Mrs. Murret.

Well, I only know what she told me. She told me what went on.

Mr. Jenner.

And you have already told us about that.

Mrs. Murret.

Yes; that was the reason for the divorce.

Mr. Jenner.

Had she sold her house that she had here in New Orleans at the time she married Ekdahl?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes; I think she did. She sold the Alvar Street home and moved into the Bartholomew Street home, which was a small house. It was a very low-priced residence.

Mr. Jenner.

At 1010 Bartholomew?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes; that's right.

Mr. Jenner.

And then she sold that at a profit; is that right?

Mrs. Murret.

Well, that's what she said, and that was something else about her; she started sort of getting into the business of buying property and selling it and making money off of it and so forth, but things don't just work out the way you want them to sometimes, the way you would like them to work out.

Mr. Jenner.

Did she also undertake to sell insurance at one time?

Mrs. Murret.

She said she did. The last time she was here, she said she was selling insurance, but whether or not she did I don't know.

Mr. Jenner.

You mean last fall; when she was here last fall?

Mrs. Murret.

I guess it was in the fall that she was here; yes.

Mr. Jenner.

That was before the assassination?

Mrs. Murret.

Oh, yes.

Mr. Jenner.

She said then that she was selling insurance?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes. That was after we hadn't heard from them for a very long time. I didn't even know that Lee was in the service, and so forth, and then one day he called me up from the bus station here, but during that time we hadn't heard from them until he called me from the bus station here and said he was in town and wanted a place to stay. Now, my daughter's husband was going over to Texas to a coaching school, I think to coach at Beaumont High, so we asked him if he would call them when he got over there and maybe visit and find out how they were getting along, and he did telephone, but he wasn't able to go out to the house, but they told him that there had been an accident; that she had been working in a candy shop and a glass jar fell on her nose, and that she had sustained other injuries. So he told us about that, and I wrote to her, and I sent her money, and I made up a box of clothing of whatever I thought she might need and so forth, a lot of things, and sent them to her, and every week I would send what I could, $5, $10, or whatever it was.

Mr. Jenner.

When was that, Mrs. Murret? Was that in 1962 or 1963?

Mrs. Murret.

That was while he was in the Marines, still in the Marines, because she said at that time she was trying to get Lee out of the Marines, but his time was nearly up, and she was pleading a hardship case, to get Lee out so he could give her some support. Now, that was over the telephone, I think.

Mr. Jenner.

That was a telephone conversation you had with her?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Was this then in this spring; the late spring of 1959?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes; I think so.

Mr. Jenner.

Because he got out of the service in September of 1959.

Mrs. Murret.

That's right, because after he defected here, she visited here. Now, when I talked to her over the telephone, and she told me what it was costing her financially and everything, that's when they let him out of the service, right after that, I think.

Mr. Jenner.

Yes; in September of 1959.

Mrs. Murret.

Yes, sir, and so then Lee came home, and she was living in this one room; so Lee stayed there 1 or 2 days, whatever it was, and then he said, "Well, this is not for me."

Mr. Jenner.

Who said that?