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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XI - Page 374« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Sylvia Odio)

Mrs. Odio.
Dallas. So do not establish any friendships until you give me their full names again."
Mr. Liebeler.
Does he say their "full names" in there?
Mrs. Odio.
Their full names again, which means I had given their war names.
Mr. Liebeler.
So you must have given the name Leopold?
Mrs. Odio.
He says, "You are very alone with no man to protect you, and you can be easily fooled." That is more or less what he says. We are 10 brothers and sisters, a big family, and this has been very sad for both of them.
I have little brothers in Dallas in an orphanage. We have been, were a very united family, and he is always worried about us being alone after I divorced.
He is still more worried, and he was always thinking that somebody could come in my door. He also had a thought that somebody could come by demanding money or something like that. You can probably have somebody who knows Spanish do a better translation.
Mr. Liebeler.
This letter is dated December 25, 1963, is that correct?
Mrs. Odio.
That's right.
Mr. Liebeler.
And it is dated Nueva Gerona. Where is that?
Mrs. Odio.
The capital of Isle of Pines.
Mr. Liebeler.
Your father is a prisoner there?
Mr. Liebeler.
Are the prisoners permitted to write letters back and forth?
Mrs. Odio.
One letter a month, on one side.
Mr. Liebeler.
I would presume that the letters are read by Castro's men?
Mrs. Odio.
They are all read. That is why I did not given him a lot of details. I managed to write very small so they would have a time reading it, like he does. You can see how perfectly he writes a letter.
Mr. Liebeler.
Now, let me ask you how you managed to establish that these men come in late September. You previously stated that you couldn't remember the date exactly, but you had managed to establish it as being in late September. Would you tell me the procedure that you went through to establish that date in your mind?
Mrs. Odio.
I told you my sister Annie was staying with some American friends. She did not live with me. She had gone to live with the Madlock's. And I called her many times to come and babysit for me during certain weekends, and she would come either on a Thursday or Friday, depending on when I called her.
I told her that day that I was going out, but I wanted 'her to start packing for me because we were moving over to Oak Cliff. It must have been the last days of September, because we had already packages in the living room. We had already started to pack to go, and we had to move by the first of October since my rent was due that day, you see.
Mr. Liebeler.
Now, you did move?
Mrs. Odio.
We did move the first of October to Oak Cliff.
Mr. Liebeler.
What was the address of the apartment in which you lived before you moved to Oak Cliff?
Mrs. Odio.
Over in, it was, I am almost sure of the number--1024 Magellan Circle. It is the Crestwood Apartments. I am not sure of the number; I think it is. Mr. LIEBELER. In any event, you were living at the Crestwood Apartments at the time these men came to your apartment?
Mrs. Odio.
That's right. The Crestwood Apartments are full of Cubans.
Mr. Liebeler.
You left the Crestwood Apartments as of the first of October and moved to Oak Cliff?
Mrs. Odio.
That's right exactly.
Mr. Liebeler.
Now, you are absolutely sure that these men came to your apartment before the first of October?
Mrs. Odio.
Before the first of October.
Mr. Liebeler.
It would have been sometime toward the end of September, because you recall that you had already started to pack to move from the Crestwood Apartments to Oak Cliff?
Mrs. Odio.
The packages were in the living room, and Annie was helping me.
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