Church Enstone - Cottages in 1870

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The Postcard

A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Enstone using a 2½d. stamp on Monday the 8th. June 1964. It was sent to:

Miss K. M. Jones,
24, Hailsham Avenue,
Streatham Hill,
London SW.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"7 - 6 - 1964.
Dear Kathleen,
I believe Bridget has
told you that ant time
during the first half of
August will be alright
for you to visit my
little cottage.
Come when it is most
convenient for you, so
long as I know before-
hand.
Mrs. Forster came
yesterday & was caught
in a very heavy thunder-
storm walking a mile to
catch the coach this
afternoon.
It's beautiful here now.
This card shows our
three cottages as they
were years ago.
Love,
Gladys.
p.s. Letter just received
OK. Make your own
arrangements."

An Extended Interview

So what else happened on the day that Gladys wrote the card?

Well, on the 7th, June 1964, Jack Ruby, who had killed accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, testified before the Warren Commission.

Since Ruby had been imprisoned since the 24th. November, the questioning took place at the interrogation room of the Dallas County Jail.

The Commission was represented by Chief Justice Earl Warren and U.S. Congressman Gerald R. Ford.

The process began at 11:45 in the morning and lasted for three hours. Ruby began by saying:

"I would like to be able to get a lie
detector test or truth serum of what
motivated me to do what I did at that
particular time.
It seems as you get further into
something, even though you know
what you did, it operates against you
somehow, brainwashes you, that you
are weak in what you want to tell the
truth and what you want to say which
is the truth."

Violet Attlee

The day also marked the death at the age of 68 of Violet Attlee, Countess Attlee.

Violet, who was the wife of former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, died from a cerebral haemorrhage.