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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VIII - Page 62« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Mrs. Myrtle Evans)

Mr. Jenner.
Did he say anything about what his ambitions were, what his objectives were in life now that he was back home?
Mrs. Evans.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
Did he have any luggage with him?
Mrs. Evans.
Not when he came to my house. He said he had been staying at his aunt's?
Mr. Jenner.
Did he talk about any of his old friends?
Mrs. Evans.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
When he was a teen-ager, did he ever smoke?
Mrs. Evans.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
Did you ever know him to smoke?
Mrs. Evans.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
Or drink?
Mrs. Evans.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
Would you say he was temperate with respect to smoking?
Mrs. Evans.
No; he was very deep; a very deep boy, and he liked to dig into things, and he liked music and books.
Mr. Jenner.
Would you say he was a voracious reader?
Mrs. Evans.
Yes; he liked to read, and he liked to listen to the radio.
Mr. Jenner.
What kind of music drew his attention, classics?
Mrs. Evans.
Well, symphony--more of the highbrow stuff, I guess you would say. I don't really remember because this was so many years ago, and I didn't go up to their apartment that much, you know; she would come down to my apartment.
Mr. Jenner.
Who would?
Mrs. Evans.
His mother, but I know he liked to listen to his records a lot, and he had a lot of books all over the place, you know. His mother would come downstairs in the evening sometime, you know, and we would sit and talk, and sometimes even when she would just come in from work, she would have dinner with me, or something like that, and that's the way it was with Margie and me until we had this sort of falling out, I guess you would call it.
Then after they moved to Texas, like I said, I didn't hear from them for quite awhile, and then Lee came back and came to the house, and we did all of that apartment hunting until we found him one, and then after he had moved in, he called me one day and wanted to know if I could come up and meet Marina.
Mr. Jenner.
How long was this after he had moved into the apartment, can you remember?
Mrs. Evans.
Oh, I'd say about a week or so, and anyway I thought it would be nice to go up and meet Marina, and I told him we would try to come up, because I would like to meet his wife, and he said, "Just come anytime." He said she was anxious to meet me. Well, of course, I was busy, so I didn't go, so one night while we were sitting and looking at television here his face comes glaring up on the television screen, and he had been arrested for passing out some kind of handbills or something, and it told about this scuffling over this Cuban thing.
Mr. Jenner.
Let me interrupt you there for a minute now. That's the first you ever heard, or the first knowledge you had, that Lee Oswald was mixed up in any way with this sort of activity, is that right?
Mrs. Evans.
Oh, yes; I had no idea that he was mixed up in anything like this, and I was shocked when I saw his face come on the screen passing out these handbills in connection with this Cuban thing, so I told my husband, "Well, they said he went to Russia to give up his American citizenship; well, maybe he has." I said, "I am certainly not going up there now," so I didn't go, and I don't know whether this was before that or after that, but I called up the lady that had rented the apartment to them--I had asked her for her phone number at the time, and I told her at the time that I would try to send her some tenants, so she did give me the number, so I called one time to see how the Oswalds were getting along. Evidently this must have been after that. I don't remember. So anyway I called and said----
Mr. Jenner.
Would that have been Mrs. Garner?
Mrs. Evans.
Yes; that's right; Garner. I told her, I said, "This is Myrtle
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