ROBERT OSWALD'S TESTIMONY 'HELPFUL,'MAY LEAD TO ASSASSINATION MOTIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600160078-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: February 21, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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cwcAGO DAILY
NEWS
li ~~ lead. to A.ssassinaion Motive
-,r Oswald's Testt,wny 'He
BY RICHARD T. STOUT
Of Our IVadrington Bureau
- Detail"
that might help lead investiga-
tur:, to a possible motive for
the' slaying of President Ken-
nedy have been provided by
the brother of Lee Harvey Os-
wald, the accused killer.
An official of the special
commission investigating Presi-
dent Kennedy's assassination
told The Chicago Daily News
that information given by Rob-
ert L. Oswald, .29, had been
some of the most helpful to
dare in piecing together the
mystery of just why the ae-,
used killer might have shot
the President. -
Robert Oswald appeared be-
ore the commission again Fri-
lay after meeting with mem-
lec, and staff for-more than
10 hours Thursday. i
OSWALD'S attorney, Wil-
iani A. McKenzie of Dallas,
aid Oswald plans no state-
rid'nt until the commission
mikes the report of its find-
ngs to President Johnson.
The commission official said
kwakl contributed especially
Zelpful details of his brother',
any life that should aid con-
iderably in making a psychia-
ric evaluation of Lee Oswald.
Other helpful information
vas contained in' corresponds,
CPYRGHT
obert Oswald, brother of
ee Harvey Oswald, ac-
used assassin of President
ennedy, leaves for lunch
fter testifying before the
V a r r e n Commission in
ashington. (UPI) '
e 'c between the two brothers
t tt Oswald brought from his
h me in Denton, Tex,, where
h lives with his wife, a daugh-
t ,6,andason, 3.
,ommission . member Allen
Dulles, former Central In-
to igence Agency d ire c t o r,
s d a number of the letters
w re written during the time
r c Say,
.
however , what Robert Os-
wald's opinion was' on his
brother's guile.
The mother of the two
brothers, Mrs. Marguerite Os-
wald, 56, has begun a cam-
paign to prove Lee Harvey
innocent of the slaying. Lee
Harvey's wife, Marina, h a s
said the numerous bits of evi-
dence pointing to her husband
convinced her he was t h e
killer.
THE, OSWALD brothers
were close a relatively few
years of their life. Robert Os-
wald joined the Marines at the
age of 17 and was never again
close to his family. Lee Har-
vey was 12 then.
. Robert Oswald was 5 when
his father, Robert E. Lee Os-
wald, an insurance agent, died
in the summer of 1939, two
months before the birth of
Lee Harvey.
Mrs. Oswald placed Robert
and his older half-brother;
John Edward Pic, now an Air
Force sergeant in San Antonio,
Tex., in a Lutheran children's
I. Harvey Oswald was in' home, left Lee in the care of
R ssia, from 1959 to 1962, her sister and went to work.
)ulles said among the
p nls Robert Oswald discussed
w e his views of his mother's
of nions on the Investigation
ar I whether Lee' ,Harvey was
fi Ity.
nlles, and :'.other ' commis-
CPYRGHT
LEE WAS also placed in
the home when he was 3.
Mrs. Oswald took them
from the home three years i
later, when she was . married
to her third husband, Edwin
A. Ekdahl; an, industrial engi
ricer. rs marriage ended--in
divorce, as did her first mar-
riage to Edward John Pic, a
stevedore,' who she says left
her shortly before the birth
of her first son.
Robert and Lee Oswald thus
were close for nine years. Ac-
cording to accounts of persons
who knew Lee. Harvey at vari-
ous times during that period,
he gradually changed from a
friendly, outgoing child to a
quiet, somewhat sullen boy.
MUCH OF the questioning
of Robert Oswald was done by
Albert E. Jenner Jr.. a Chicago
lawyer who is among the task
force of special, attorneys hired
to compile the voluminous dc-.
tails in the investigation.
Jenner is in charge of com-
piling details on Lee Harvey
Oswald's life and his psychi-
atric background.
Officials said Robert Os-
wald was, asked to testify find,
came voluntarily. The testi_
monyis taken under oath.
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