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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VIII - Page 123« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Mrs. Lillian Murret Resumed)

Mrs. Murret.
Well, that must have been 2 weeks, 3 weeks. She was looking for a place to stay, and Robert was coming out of the service, and so that's when she found this place over on Exchange Alley before Robert came in, and she met Robert at my house, and they went right over to the apartment at Exchange Alley that she had found, but Robert left. He wouldn't stay in New Orleans.
Mr. Jenner.
How many days were you looking for an apartment for her?
Mrs. Murret.
Oh, I would say about a week.
Mr. Jenner.
Until she found this place on Exchange Alley?
Mrs. Murret.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
What was Lee doing during that time?
Mrs. Murret.
He was going to school.
Mr. Jenner.
When they came back from New York and stopped at your home and lived with you temporarily, did he go to school?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes; he did. That's when she enrolled him at Beauregard Junior High.
Mr. Jenner.
Would that have been in January 1954?
Mrs. Murret.
I don't know.
Mr. Jenner.
Well, they left New York City, I think, either on the fifth or the seventh of January 1954. Now, we have an address here in New Orleans of 1464 St. Mary Street.
Mrs. Murret.
Oh, that was before the Exchange Place. She rented that from this lady who was a friend of hers.
Mr. Jenner.
Was that Myrtle Evans?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes; Myrtle Evans. She was a friend of hers.
Mr. Jenner.
I believe she also lived for a time at 1910 Prytania, didn't she?
Mrs. Murret.
I think that's right. I'm not sure about those different places, I mean, how she would move from one to the other, but she was at several places up in there before she went to Exchange Place.
Mr. Jenner.
Well, we appear from our records to have them living on St. Mary Street in New Orleans in May or June of 1954, until about February 1955.
Mrs. Murret.
Well, I don't know anything about that. I know Myrtle Evans was managing that apartment where she lived.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you know how it was that she went to live at 126 Exchange Place in New Orleans?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Was that 1954 or 1955?
Mrs. Murret.
I don't know--whatever you have down there probably is the right year, but they lived at Myrtle's house first.
Mr. Jenner.
Could it have been that Myrtle Evans lived, in the spring of 1954, at 1454 St. Mary Street?
Mrs. Murret.
I don't know. Maybe that's right. I know this was a very old house where she lived. I was told that she had a family home---Myrtle and that she had renovated it into a lot of apartments for tenants.
Mr. Jenner.
How long did they stay at your house?
Mrs. Murret.
At my house?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes.
Mrs. Murret.
Well, like I said, 2 weeks or 3 weeks at the most, somewhere in there.
Mr. Jenner.
And you are pretty sure that they moved directly from your house into this place on Exchange Alley?
Mrs. Murret.
Well, either there or to Myrtle's apartment. I don't know which, to be truthful with you.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, tell me about Lee Harvey Oswald during the couple of weeks that he spent at your house. Did you notice any change in him from the time you had known him previously? He would now have been about 3 years older; isn't that right?
Mrs. Murret.
Yes, sir; like I said, they had just come from New York, and she had told me about him not wanting to go to school, but she enrolled him over at Beauregard School, which wasn't too far from my home. It's a school
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