signatures, and names of grantor and co-trustees under those lines.
Could I ask you whether you have seen the original of this document?
Mr. McKenzie. I have not, sir. I have seen a copy.
Mr. Jenner. An executed copy?
Mr. McKenzie. To the best of my recollection, it was an executed copy, yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. And from what source did you obtain or was the document exhibited to you?
Mr. McKenzie. The document was given to me by Marina Oswald.
Mr. Jenner. And you observed that it was executed?
Mr. McKenzie. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. By the persons whose names appear on page 5 of the Exhibit 280?
Mr. McKenzie. Yes, sir.
I have made these exhibits available to the Commission for whatever purpose they may serve the Commission, and for no other purpose.
Mr. Dulles. Yes. I think we might want to reserve on that until the whole Commission can get together. We want to examine everything within the mandate we have been given by the President. We don't want to go afield, quite naturally. And we cannot tell at this stage what bearing these particular papers might have. So I think I would like to reserve judgment on these.
Mr. McKenzie. Well, Mr. Dulles, I made that statement in view of that fact. I felt that that would be true.
Mr. Jenner. Mr. McKenzie, for the purpose of our record, would you be offended if we had you sworn, so you could then state that the statements you have made to the Commission are true and correct?
Mr. McKenzie. I would not be offended in any way.
Mr. Dulles. Do you, Mr. McKenzie, swear that what you have stated, is the full truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. McKenzie. I do, Mr. Dulles.
Mr. Jenner. Mr. Chairman, I offer in evidence as Commission Exhibits 276 through 280, inclusive, the documents that have been so identified.
Mr. Dulles. They may be accepted.
(The documents referred to were marked Commission Exhibits Nos. 276 through 280, inclusive, for identification, and received in evidence.)
Mr. Dulles. I wish to state, in accepting these documents, the Commission does not want to pass on or assume any responsibility with respect to the financial or other arrangements described in these documents.
Mr. Jenner. I sought to identify them, Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen, and to tender them in evidence because of events of the past few days, and to confirm Mr. McKenzie's authority to speak on behalf of Mr. Oswald.
Mr. Dulles. Very well.
Mr. Jenner. At the recess, Mr. Oswald, we were dealing with—excuse me.
We were dealing with the period of time that you and your mother and your two brothers lived in Benbrook, Tex. This brought us through the summer of 1948, I believe.
Am I correct?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Mr. Liebeler has determined that the divorce of Mr. Ekdahl and your mother took place in 1948. We cannot give you the month and the day in 1948, but it was during the year 1948.
We had reached the point in which you related to us that, I believe, following the divorce of Mr. Ekdahl and your mother, she purchased a small home.
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. And refresh my recollection, please—was that in Benbrook, Tex.?
Mr. Oswald. That was in Benbrook, Tex.
Mr. Jenner. Have we reached a point now at which your brother, Lee, had entered elementary school?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; we have.
Mr. Jenner. And you boys have now terminated your attendance at the military academy?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, that is correct.
Mr. Jenner. And would you please relate what elementary school you and your brother, John, attended, and Lee, if he attended the same school?
Mr. Oswald. Prior to the school year of 1948–49, we moved to Ewing Street, 7408 Ewing Street, within the limits of the city of Fort Worth.
Mr. Jenner. Was the home that had been purchased in Benbrook, Tex., sold?
Mr. Oswald. I would say yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Well, you state that you would say. Is that your best information?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
I am not aware of any transactions in regards to the selling of that home or anything. Since we did move, and she did purchase this home on 7408 Ewing Street, in Fort Worth, I would assume that she did sell the house at Benbrook, because she didn't rent it, and we no longer went out there. I feel sure she did sell it.
Mr. Jenner. Did I understand you to say that your mother purchased a home at 7408 Ewing?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Would you, in very short compass, tell us the physical characteristics of that home?
Mr. Oswald. It was a two bedroom, asbestos siding, with an attached garage, red roof, small porch on the front, and an average sized lot.
Mr. Jenner. These homes you have been describing all have, as I recall it—have either attached garage or separate garages.
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir—with the exception of the home there in Benbrook that my mother purchased after the divorce from Mr. Ekdahl—it did not have a garage, and I did not recall a garage at the native stone house in Benbrook.
Mr. Jenner. The purpose of my inquiry was, did the family have an automobile?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Was that true when you lived in Louisiana?
Mr. Oswald. To my best recollection on that—my father did have, at the time of his death, either a 1937 or 1938 Chevrolet. I believe my mother sold it after his death. I believe she did not own an automobile in New Orleans, when we were at the Bethlehem Orphan Home.
Mr. Jenner. Were you boys interested in automobiles, as most young teenagers are?
Mr. Oswald. I think so, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Tinker around with them, drive them?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Both you and your brother John?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Later on, in later years, did your brother Lee—was he likewise interested in automobiles,
