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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VIII - Page 165« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Marilyn Dorothea Murret)

Mr. Liebeler.
Anyway, he knew of your brother in the seminary?
Miss MURRET. Actually, he was more concerned about that, I guess, and so I just said this, this religious discussion. I just set this off because he was not interested at all, and so he just listened and he said that he had his own philosophy, and that he was an atheist. But he didn't argue, or anything, and he just let me rave on for about an hour.
Mr. Liebeler.
You are a Catholic, is that correct?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
A practicing Catholic?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
And you expressed that to Oswald?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
As best as you can recall, all he did was listen and then he indicated that he had his own way?
Miss MURRET. Which he didn't express.
Mr. Liebeler.
But he did tell you that he was an atheist?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
He didn't go into any further details than that?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you get any feeling about him when you had this discussion with him? I mean, did it seem kind of strange to you that someone would just sit and let you go on at such length on a subject like that, and then not really respond to it?
Miss MURRET. That was typical of Lee.
Mr. Liebeler.
Typical of Lee?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
He didn't express any disgust or short temperedness with your----
Miss MURRET. No. Oh, no.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you remember any other discussions or confrontations that you might have had?
Miss MURRET. That was the only time that I had had any chance to talk with him, and that was the first day that he came--believe it was. After that, on Saturdays, or that particular Saturday he was out all day looking around for a job. And then on that Sunday he wanted to know where his father was buried, and he wanted to locate some of his relatives, because he had said that when Marina's family had asked him about his family, he didn't know anything at all, he didn't know what descent he was, and he said he realized, or he missed not being close to his relatives, because he didn't know any of them other than us.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did he ask you about this or----
Miss MURRET. My mother.
Mr. Liebeler.
And you were there at the time?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
What did your mother tell him?
Miss MURRET. My mother checked the telephone directory, and I think most were dead. Harvey Oswald, who was his godfather, I believe, is dead. He did find one relative and he went to see her.
Mr. Liebeler.
What was her name?
Miss. MURRET. I don't know, but that might have been his wife. My mother would know.
Mr. Liebeler.
Whose wife? Harvey Oswald's?
Miss MURRET. They were very old. That was his father's brother, but they are all dead. But it might be one of the wives who is still living, and he went out there to see her, and she gave him a picture of his father. And then he went to visit the grave.
Mr. Liebeler.
Of his father?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did he talk to you about that at all?
Miss MURRET. No.
Mr. Liebeler.
What happened to the picture? Do you know?
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