The proceeding was reconvened at 3:25 p.m.
Mr. JENNER. All right, Sergeant.
Do you recall along about this time that you were in the Bethlehem
Orphanage your mother became acquainted with a man by the name of E. A.
Ekdahl and subsequently married?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And it was about this time, around 1944, that you boys were
withdrawn from the Bethlehem Orphanage and taken to Texas?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Now, I will go back a little bit because I want you to put
it in sequence. Before we adjourned for noon recess, I covered the
matter of the period of the birth of Lee, the death of your stepfather
Lee Oswald, and then brought you up to the Bethlehem School and stopped
there.
To the extent you have impressions commencing with, let us say, your
entry into grammar school, at that time your stepfather Lee Oswald was
alive.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. You were, when you entered grammar school that was
kindergarten you were only four and half years old.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall moving from place to place before you finally
settled in----
Mr. PIC. I just remember one residence prior to Alvez and Galvez.
Mr. JENNER. I see.
Mr. PIC. Where that would have been, I don't remember.
Mr. JENNER. OK. But you sort of settled down in 2109 Alvar?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. That your stepfather had purchased that home in 1938?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And then you went along, he died about a year and a half
later after he purchased it.
Take us from the time that your stepfather died and tell us your
impressions of how the home life changed; if it did change, what
effect, if any, you observed that you now can recall that circumstances
had on your mother; and what kind of life you and the boys began to
lead as distinguished from the life you led while your stepfather was
alive if there is any change now.