Mrs. Murret.

Only at the time when he was going to Beauregard School, with his homework.

Mr. Jenner.

Without noting that you have Commission Exhibit No. 540 before you, do you recognize that handwriting?

Mrs. Murret.

Wait till I get my glasses.

Mr. Jenner.

All right; take your time.

Mrs. Murret.

I couldn't say I recognized it. It looks a little like, something like his writing, I mean, the way he would write, but I couldn't say for sure--I couldn't swear that that was his writing.

Mr. Jenner.

You couldn't swear that he wrote this?

Mrs. Murret.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

Does it look like what you recall his handwriting was?

Mrs. Murret.

Well, if it's anything, it's even a little better than I knew him to write, I might say. I never thought he wrote very well for his age, and he was 14 then, you know. Of course, a lot of boys don't write good. Girls, you will find, are better at penmanship than boys. You ought to see my son's writing. He graduated from law school, and he don't write good either. Now, I think he was left handed.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, you have caused me complications, Mrs. Murret. Commission Exhibit 540 has a series of pages which are numbered at the bottom, 148 through 157, both inclusive, purporting to be photostatic copies of a diary or the memoirs of Lee Harvey Oswald, written in his hand, and found by Irving, Tex., police and the city of Dallas police, or at least certainly by the city of Dallas police; in his room.

Mrs. Murret.

Well, here's one that says that he was--you see, when he stopped in that Saturday, you know, we didn't know where he was going, but he said he was going to be stationed at Keesler Field----

Mr. Jenner.

Is that Keesler Field at Biloxi?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes. But someone else said that they thought that when he came to my house on that Saturday, when he stopped there, that he was coming from Atlanta, Ga., that day, but anyway, we took Lee to lunch that day and then dropped him off, if I remember right, by the customhouse up here by the river, and that's all I remember about that, and I never saw him any more after that until he turned up in Russia.

Mr. Jenner.

After he defected to Russia?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes, sir. I told him, I said, "Lee, if you are going to be stationed over there, you can come over weekends."

Mr. Jenner.

Did he say he was going to be stationed there?

Mrs. Murret.

At Keesler Field?

Mr. Jenner.

Yes.

Mrs. Murret.

Yes; he said he was going to be.

Mr. Jenner.

And that is over at Biloxi, Miss.?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes, sir; but he never did come over and see us, and he never did write. I asked him to write, but he didn't write, and I never heard any more from him. I didn't even know that he was back from Russia.

Mr. Jenner.

And you didn't know that he had gone to Russia either; is that right?

Mrs. Murret.

That's right; I didn't know he had gone over there at all. I didn't know he went until after he went.

Mr. Jenner.

How did you learn he was in Russia? Did his mother tell you that he was in Russia?

Mrs. Murret.

That he had defected, yes. That was about the time she had this accident, I remember, and then he got out of the Marines.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, that was before he defected; right?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes; that was before he went to Russia. He got out of the Marines and he came to see her, and he had all that money, but he didn't give her any of it, I don't think, but $10. I think he gave her $10, she told me and then he left, supposedly to come to New Orleans, so she thought, so I didn't hear from her any more until she learned by him from letter that he was in Russia.

Mr. Jenner.

So she told you that; is that right?

Mrs. Murret.

She told me; yes, sir.