Well, I wasn't playing cards during that time or anything, but I might have run into her---I imagine I did, on the street, but I lost contact with her, sort of, and then---it was either just before Lee's birth or just after his birth; I can't remember; it has been so many years, but I met her on the corner of Canal and St. Charles. I think that was after Lee's birth. I think her husband had died, and I think she had just taken the baby to the doctor, or something. I think she told me they had wanted to have a little girl, but I can't remember all of that just the way it happened, you know. That's been such a long time ago, but I can remember meeting her; I just can't remember though if it was after her husband died, or if she was expecting a baby, or if she was the one that wanted a little girl. I can't remember if that was after the child was born. Most likely it was that she hoped they would have a little girl. Now, a lot of this was told to me after we became friends again, as to what happened.
I didn't attend her husband's funeral or anything, and I didn't start seeing a good deal of her again until--let's see; she finally went to work downtown, and I happened to run into her, or something like that. She was working for, I think, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., and I was a widow and she was a widow, and we again sort of regained our friendship.

Mr. Jenner.

Your husband in the meantime had died?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes; I am married now to Mr. Evans.

Mr. Jenner.

Your first husband, was he also a native-born American?

Mrs. Evans.

Oh, yes; now, I met Lee's aunt one day at a card party.

Mr. Jenner.

That's Mrs. Murret?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes, Lillian Murret, and I hadn't seen her in years. I am Catholic and she is Catholic, you see, and so they had this card party or some kind of an affair over at the Fontainebleau Motel, and a number of ladies were present, and it was for charity, and we played bingo and canasta and things, and she was selling aprons, and so she said, "Oh, Myrtle, did you hear about Lee; he gave up his American citizenship and went to Russia, behind the iron curtain," and I said, "My God, no," and she said, "Yes."
Well, after that I didn't hear any more about it. I lost contact.

Mr. Jenner.

When was this, 1959, 1960?

Mrs. Evans.

Well, I would say 2 to 3 years ago, about 3 years ago, because I have been to those affairs, I think, twice since.

Mr. Jenner.

Was that the first you knew or had become aware of the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was living in Russia?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes; now, it was undoubtedly in the newspapers and on TV, but I sometimes get to doing a million things, and I don't get a chance to read the newspaper. I just skip it. And if I don't get around to it, I skip the news on TV too, even the late news. So a lot of times I don't know what's going on, but she said, "Did you hear about Lee?" and I said, "No, what about Lee?" and she said, "You didn't see it in the paper? Lee has done gone and given up his United States citizenship," and I said, "Poor Marguerite; that's terrible; I feel so sorry for her."

Mr. Jenner.

You knew Lee Harvey Oswald?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes; I knew him very well. I knew his mother before he was born, and I knew him since he was a little tyke. Lillian took care of him for a while, you see. She had two boys, one by her first marriage, and it wasn't her fault that they got a divorce. He didn't want the child, and he wanted her to destroy the child.

Mr. Jenner.

When you say she had two boys, you are talking about Marguerite Oswald, is that right?

Mrs. Evans.

Yes; Marguerite had a terrificly sad life, and she was just a wonderful, gorgeous wife. She married this John Pic and had his boy, and he didn't want any children at all, and so she left him and went to live with her sister, and Oswald, I think, was a Virginia Life Insurance salesman. He collected insurance from the sister. They lived right off of City Park, and so one day Margie was strolling with Robert in front of City Park, and Oswald bumped into them, and he asked them how about him riding them home.

Mr. Jenner.

What did she say to him?

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