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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VIII - Page 164« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Marilyn Dorothea Murret)

Mr. Liebeler.
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you form an impression of her?
Miss MURRET. Who? Marguerite?
Mr. Liebeler.
Yes.
Miss MURRET. When she came back you mean?
Mr. Liebeler.
Yes; at any time, just what your general impression and feeling about Marguerite Oswald was?
Miss MURRET. I think she is a woman of very good character, but she had a very curt tongue, and she doesn't forget very easily. I mean if you have an argument with her, I don't think she forgets it immediately. But she also, I guess, and it is probably her reason for that, and I mean, if she worked, she had to work in these department stores, and she was not a gossipy type of woman, and I don't know but I worked a few summers in a department store, and I know that for these sales how they--I mean they will slit one another's throats.
Mr. Liebeler.
The sales clerks?
Miss MURRET. Yes. I think that the employees were arguing--she didn't engage in petty gossip as other employees and probably got in arguments over that, you know, and she was a little quick-tongued.
Mr. Liebeler.
But other than that you have no----
Miss MURRET. Other than that she was nice in her own way, you know.
Mr. Liebeler.
There was a time in the spring of 1963 when Lee Oswald came to New Orleans, isn't that correct?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Tell us what you know about that?
Miss MURRET. When he came in the last time, you mean?
Mr. Liebeler.
Yes. That was the next time that you saw Lee Oswald after he and his mother left the Exchange Alley address and went to Texas, isn't that correct?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Tell us what happened in connection with his coming to New Orleans?
Miss MURRET. He telephoned my mother, I think from the bus station. Of course, we didn't even know that he was back, and so he asked if he could stay there a while until he got a job, and he told my mother that he was married, and that he had a baby.
So, my mother asked him if he was alone, because if he had a family she wouldn't have been able to accommodate him. But he was by himself, so she said O.K. He stayed there a while until he found a place on Magazine Street. And then the wife and this lady from Texas came down, and they moved into the place on Magazine Street.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you live with your mother?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Were you at home during the time that Oswald Lived there during that period?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
How long was he there?
Miss MURRET. I am not sure whether it was a week or a little over a week.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you have any conversations with him during that time?
Miss MURRET. During the day he was usually looking for a job, and I was working. And in the evening maybe we would talk a little, but nothing in particular. I was usually working on lesson plans, and he went to work about 8:30 or 9 o'clock, and the only discussions that I really had was on religion.
Mr. Liebeler.
Was that during this week?
Miss MURRET. I beg your pardon?
Mr. Liebeler.
Was that at the time?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
What did he say about that, and what did you say?
Miss MURRET. He just listened.
Mr. Liebeler.
What did you say?
Miss MURRET. And then he just said or I assumed that he was an atheist because a brother of mine is in the seminary, you know----
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