Mr. Jenner. Would you be good enough to relate to the Commission the circumstances that brought that about? What do you recall as to why?
Mr. Oswald. My opinion on that, sir, was this. That mother had wanted to bring Lee to the home at an earlier date, but that they had a minimum age required before he could be placed in there, because they did not have any real small children there. I mean there was no nursery there that I recall. And there was no very young children. When I say very young—say under 3 years old.
I remember some children there that perhaps were four or three and a half years old.
Mr. Jenner. I take it, Mr. Oswald, your mother put Lee in the orphan home at the first opportunity open to her under the rules or policy of the Bethlehem Orphan Home in that respect.
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Now, did she come to visit the home when Lee was placed in the home?
If I may, you recall you said you were free on Wednesdays, it may have been limited to the summer time, and you and John would go into the New Orleans town district and visit your mother.
Did she come to see Lee? Does that stimulate your recollection that she did come to visit?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; she did come to visit us. I recall after Lee was placed in the home, that all three of us would go down and visit mother, and we always took Lee with us.
Mr. Jenner. I see. What contact did you have with Lee in that 1-year period, in 1943, when he was with you boys in the home?