(Testimony of John Edward Pic)
Mr. Jenner.
That was a very short period of time?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir; because we hated the place.
Mr. Jenner.
I will get to that in a moment.
Mr. Pic.
I don't know whether it was before Washington or after. I think it was before Washington.
Mr. Jenner.
Perhaps I can refresh your recollection this way. Your stepfather died in August of 1939. You were then living in the house at the corner of Alvar and Galvez which you recall as Alvez and Galvez.
Do you recall that some months after the death of your father and in the following year, the late winter or early spring, that you moved from that house?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you recall a physician by the name of Mancuso?
Mr. Pic.
It may or may not be familiar, sir. I don't know.
Mr. Jenner.
He was the doctor who delivered Lee, and also the man who rented the house in which you had been living. Do you recall that?
Mr. Pic.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
You do recall leaving that house in which you had been living at the time of the death of your stepfather?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir; sometime afterward.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you recall that it was a matter of months and not a matter of years?
Mr. Pic.
It had to be months, sir, because I have got something else for 1940 here.
Mr. Jenner.
When you moved from the house in which you had been living at the time of the death of your stepfather, do you recall moving to 1242 Congress Street?
Mr. Pic.
No, sir. I remember moving to a Bartholomew Street.
Mr. Jenner.
That Bartholomew Street, I will get to that in a moment, perhaps to refresh your recollection was a little house that your mother purchased on contract.
Mr. Pic.
What, Bartholomew?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes.
Mr. Pic.
I remember that house.
Mr. Jenner.
1010 Bartholomew.
Mr. Pic.
That could be it, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Before you moved to 1010 Bartholomew you lived, did you not, at 1242 Congress?
Mr. Pic.
I don't remember, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Your mother didn't sell the Alvar Street 'house until January of 1944.
Mr. Pic.
I thought it was sold the day we moved out.
Mr. Jenner.
It was rented by Dr. Mancuso the day you moved out, and ultimately your mother regained possession in January 1944, and he then purchased that house substantially contemporaneously, in January of 1944.
Mr. Pic.
Can I ask you a question?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Pic.
Being Mr. Oswald was in the insurance business, and being i was rather young, how did he leave her, I have no idea.
Mr. Jenner.
Well, I will answer that question. You tell me what you thought at the time and what your impression now is.
Mr. Pic.
Well, he didn't leave her much is what I was told.
Mr. Jenner.
Was that the feeling you had at the time?
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Well, he did leave a small insurance policy, and the house on Alvar, on the corner of Alvar and Galvez, which was being purchased under contract, and that is about all.
I take it, it is your recollection, Sergeant, that when you and your mother and Robert and Lee, who was then an infant child, just a few months old, left the house on 2109 Alvar you entered some institution.
Mr. Pic.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
And what is your recollection of that institution?
Mr. Pic.
I believe it was in Gretna, La.
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