Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Employment at Reily Co. and Marina’s Move to New Orleans

Employment at Reily Co. and Marina’s Move to New Orleans On May 9, responding to a newspaper ad, Oswald applied for work at William B. Reily Co., Inc., a coffee roasting, grinding, canning, and bagging enterprise at 640 Magazine Street. On his application he listed as references John Murret plus “Sgt. Robert Hidell” and “Lieut. J. Evans,” both apparently fictitious names. He was approved and began work on May 10 at $1.50 per hour, lubricating machinery. He did not enjoy the job and falsely told his wife and Mrs. Paine he was doing commercial photography. Also on May 9, with the help of Myrtle Evans (who had known him as a child), Oswald rented an apartment at 4905 Magazine Street for $65 a month. After phoning Marina and inviting her to join him, Ruth Paine drove Marina and June from Dallas; they left May 10, overnighted in Shreveport, and arrived on May 11. Mrs. Paine stayed three days with the Oswalds and toured the French Quarter with them before returning home on May 14.

Social Visits from the Murrets and Ruth Kloepfer

Social Visits from the Murrets and Ruth Kloepfer The Murrets and the Oswalds exchanged visits occasionally; Marina testified that the Murrets were “very good” to them, and Mrs. Murret’s daughter Marilyn took the Oswalds on an outing. According to Marina, aside from Ruth Paine and Ruth Kloepfer and her daughters, the Murrets were the only social visitors the Oswalds had in New Orleans. Ruth Kloepfer was a clerk of the Quaker Meeting in New Orleans whom Ruth Paine had contacted in hopes that she might direct Russian-speaking visitors to Marina. Kloepfer visited the Oswalds but made no effort to bring Russian-speaking acquaintances to them.