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    "ocrText": "To: Secundra\nRF: KERRY ORNER\nhate : st never talked\n( B/R\nto a John sale Towers\ngr\nM\nE\nM\no\nR\nA\nN\nD\nU\nJhen: to Archair\nJuly 9, 1968\nOswald file\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON, District Attorney\nFROM:\nANDREW J. SCIAMBRA, Assistant District Attorney\nRE:\nINTERVIEW WITH MRS. ALVENE MAGEE, 4360 CLAYTON DRIVE,\nCATON ROUGE, PHONE: 357-3630\nYesterday I talked to MRS. MAGEE in reference to LEE HARVEY\nOSWALD answering her ad in the paper regarding a garage apartment\nfor rent. MRS. MAGEE said that it was definitely in the late\npart of October, 1963, when she ran the ad in the paper for the\ngarage apartment for rent. A person whom she positively identifies\nas LEE HARVEY OSWALD called her on the phone and told her that he\nwould be out to look at the apartment. That afternoon around\n1:00 or 2:00 he drove up to her residence in a light colored\nstation wagon, approximatel 4 to 5 years old, with his wife and\nbaby in the front seat. There was a bassinet in the back seat\nof the car that she noticed. He got out of the car and\nintroduced himself as HARVEY LEE OSWALD. Mrs. MAGEE said that\nwhile he was looking at the apartment, he volunteered a lot of\ninformation about himself. He told her that he was from New\nOrleans and that he had worked for a coffee company in New\nOrleans. He told her that he had spent three years in Russia\nand that he was married to a Russian girl and that they had a\nbaby. He said his wife did not speak English. He looked around\nthe apartment and wanted to know ifshe had good locks on the\napartment because he had a collection of guns that he didn' 't want\nAristitant\nstolen. He even mentioned that one of the guns had a telescopic\nsight on it and she remembers not really know ing what\na\ntelescopic sight was. He told her he was looking for a job in\nBaton Rouge and she recommended that he try one of the coffee\nplaces in town since he had mentioned to her that he had already\nworked for a coffee company in New Orleans. He also told her\nthat he was a Marxist and he had to explain what a Marxist was\nto her. He told her also that he had friends or relatives in\nFt. Worth. While they were looking at the apartment and talking\nMrs. MAGEE said that his wife got out of the car and also looked\nat the apartment. She did not enter into the conversation and\nall she said was hello. After she looked at the apartment she\nwent back into the car. Mrs. MAGEE said she was pregnant at\nthe time and looked very close to having the baby. Mrs. MAGEE\nsaid that OSWALD was getting back into the station wagon and said\nto her, \"I hear that Kennedy's going to make a tour down to the\nSouthern States.\" She just listened to him. The last thing that\nhe told her was that he was going to look around. She didn't\nknow if he meant for another apartment or for a job. He then\ndrove off in the station wagon with his wife and child.\nShe said that her uncle and a colored maid were in the house at\nthe time and they also saw what happened. Her uncle, JAMES\nMONAHAN, is dead but the colored woman, Mrs. VERNICE MARTIN,\nwas still in Baton Rouge and she livos at 1302 N.E. 36th street,\nphone No. 343-4680.\nMrs. MAGEE said that OSWALD had either a jacket or a coat on that\nwas light in color, either blue or gray. He said he had medium\nbrown hair, thinning in the front, and he was very clean-cut"
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