Mrs. BATES. Lee.
I just thought maybe they might be able to find him work, or something
like that, because he wasn't working. He hadn't gotten a job. And he
was real worried about it, because he needed one.
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. BATES. And I just thought maybe that they might be able to help
him find a job.
Mr. JENNER. And they were unable to contact him?
Mrs. BATES. They couldn't find him. They went out to his brother's home
several times--oh, I think, two or three times, she said--one of the
reporters did.
Mr. JENNER. And when was this?
Mrs. BATES. Oh, it was shortly after I did the work.
Mr. JENNER. I see. In the summer of 1962?
Mrs. BATES. Uh-huh; he was still out--I guess he was still out
there--but there was never anybody at home when they went out there.
Mr. JENNER. Uh-huh.
Mrs. BATES. And, actually, I didn't know that Lee was the accused
assassin. I didn't see any television, or anything else, the day that
the President was killed. I was still under such a shock because I had
just seen him go down the street in front of my building and I could
have shaken hands with him--and it was a terrible shock--until Caroline
called me.
Mr. JENNER. Uh-huh; that day?
Mrs. BATES. That night of the assassination.
And wondered, she said--I was out at my club--and she said, "Have you
seen any television or listened to any radios?"