Mrs. GRANT. You know, of course, that I went on the road and came back.
Mr. BURLESON. All right.
Mr. HUBERT. I have marked for identification a document which purports
to be an interview on December 2, 1963, of you by FBI Agent Jack
Peden, and for purposes of identification I have marked it as follows:
“Dallas, Tex., May 28, 1964, Exhibit No. 3 of the deposition of Eva
Grant,” and I have signed my name and ask you the same comments with
respect to that document?
Mrs. GRANT (examining instrument referred to). It’s going back so
far—yes; this is correct, but there are a lot of things that happened,
other things.
Mr. HUBERT. Yes; we understand that.
Mr. BURLESON. But this is correct as far as it goes, and as far as it
states?
Mrs. GRANT. That’s right.
Mr. BURLESON. There are other matters, but we won’t go into those at
this particular time—this is true and correct?
Mrs. GRANT. I mean, if you look at those States, and then look at
those, you would think I was in both places at one time, but it wasn’t
like that.
Mr. BURLESON. All right, but this is true as far as it goes?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes; of course, there are some—who remembers everything—I
had a little restaurant.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, we’ll get to the next document, which is a report of
an interview on December 31, 1963, between FBI Agent Gaston Thompson
and yourself, which I have marked for identification, “Dallas, Tex.,
May 28, 1964, Exhibit No. 4, deposition of Eva Grant,” and I have
signed my name, and I ask you if that is correct and if there are
any additions or omissions, and if so please state what you think is
incorrect as to that document?
Mrs. Grant (read instrument referred to).
Mr. BURLESON. I will ask you about the first paragraph—is it correct?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes.
Mr. BURLESON. Now, getting to the second paragraph, I’ll ask you if it
is correct?
Mrs. GRANT. Well, that’s what I told them because that’s what I
thought—they told me he wasn’t dead.
Mr. BURLESON. Have you heard anything since then to the contrary?
Mrs. GRANT. I have not spoken to anybody—to anybody who knows where he
is—whether he is dead, outside of what his name, Clements here told me
they found him—he’s alive.
Mr. BURLESON. Directing your attention to the sentence in the second
paragraph that says, “Frank had a sister named Rose Solomon in Los
Angeles,” is that correct?
Mrs. GRANT. No; instead of sister, it should be aunt. He only had one
sister and no other living relatives I would know.
Mr. BURLESON. Other than Rose Solomon, who is an aunt and not a sister?
Mrs. GRANT. It seems it was his mother’s sister, and that was the
closest family.
Mr. BURLESON. Other than one change there, as far as this statement is
concerned, it is true and correct?
Mrs. GRANT. That is right—that’s right.
Mr. BURLESON. Off the record.
(Discussion between Counsel Burleson and Hubert.)
Mr. HUBERT. Now, let’s proceed along these lines. What I would like to
know is something of the family background, Mrs. Grant.
Mrs. GRANT. I’m ashamed to tell you.
Mr. HUBERT. For instance, your mother’s name?
Mrs. GRANT. Let me explain the situation, even with my family, my
mother’s fathers’ name was Rutkowfsky.
Mr. HUBERT. Let me handle it this way—if you will just answer my
questions, then at the end of each one of these blocks of questions,
your attorney will be able to clarify anything he wants to.
Mrs. GRANT. But this is something—there has been a mixup in the family.
A lot of times my sister would say her name was——
Mr. HUBERT (interrupting). If you will just answer my question and then
we will move on this way. What was you mother’s name?
Mrs. GRANT. Fanny.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember what her last name was prior to her
marriage?
Mrs. GRANT. That’s what I’m trying to remember.
Mr. HUBERT. You said it was Rutkowfsky, is that correct?
Mrs. GRANT. I think my mother’s mother was married twice. Sometimes
they used the name as Turek [spelling] T-u-r-e-k, but her father’s name
was Rutkowfsky—he was a doctor of medicine in Zimbrola, Poland.
Mr. HUBERT. Did your mother have any brothers or sisters?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Would you name them, please, if you remember?
Mrs. GRANT. One was Sarah—they are dead—do you still want the names?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes, ma’am—did she marry anyone?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes, I know the name real good—wait a minute—isn’t that
terrible—Moskowitz [spelling] M-o-s-k-o-w-i-t-z.