Mrs. Murret.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you all attend and finish high school, other than John who died when he was 18?

Mrs. Murret.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

Well, did John finish high school?

Mrs. Murret.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

Did Charles?

Mrs. Murret.

No. Charles went in the Navy during the wartime. He made about, oh, I don't know how many trips through Germany, and he was on this transport when the United States seized the "Frederick Digross." and he wrote a beautiful history of his trip, and I loaned it out to someone, and I never did get it back.

Mr. Jenner.

How unfortunate.

Mrs. Murret.

Yes; I never did get it back. It was really everything that happened on the trip coming and going from New York to Germany, you know, back and forth.. He was a gunner.

Mr. Jenner.

On the transport, or a battleship or destroyer or cruiser?

Mrs. Murret.

On the transport.

Mr. Jenner.

He was a gunner on a transport?

Mrs. Murret.

Transport; yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, Marguerite is alive and you are alive and Aminthe is alive; is that right?

Mrs. Murret.

That's right. Aminthe is alive too.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you complete high school?

Mrs. Murret.

I did not. I didn't even go to high school.

Mr. Jenner.

You did not?

Mrs. Murret.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you complete elementary school?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes, sir; I did.

Mr. Jenner.

What about Pearl?

Mrs. Murret.

I don't think she went to high school. If she did, it was probably just a year or so. She was married at an early age.

Mr. Jenner.

I think you said that Marguerite did complete high school, or did she?

Mrs. Murret.

I can't remember if she completed high school or not, but she may have. I really don't remember that. If she said she did, then she did. I can't remember because, you see, we were six children, and my mother died, and my father's sisters lived here and we had some cousins who used to come over and help us, you know, and of course, I being the eldest, I was pretty busy with everything in those days. We were just trying to keep the family together more or less.
You see, my father wouldn't give any of the children up, and so forth, and so they used to come over and help us out and cook, and when I got old enough I took over, and when the others got old enough they would help out, and that went on and on. We did pretty well. We were a happy family. We were singing all the time, and I often say that we were much happier than the children are today, even though we were very poor. My father was a very good man. He didn't drink, and he was all for his family. He didn't make much salary, but we got along all right.

Mr. Jenner.

The reason I am inquiring into these things is that all of this will assist the Commission in getting the background of the family and relatives of Lee Harvey Oswald. The reason I am saying that is I don't want you to think I am just being curious.

Mrs. Murret.

No; I understand.

Mr. Jenner.

I am trying to find out the family background so that we can ascertain to what extent all of you were involved with Lee Harvey Oswald. You understand?

Mrs. Murret.

Yes. It's nothing I'm ashamed of. I'm glad I had the life I did, because I have something to look back to, because we were very happy. We didn't have anything and we just did the best we could, but we were all together and we worked together, and we made out all right.