Mr. GERACI. And he said he was going to come back later and give Carlos
this military manual from when he was in the Marines.
Mr. LIEBELER. And was he going to give this to Carlos for Carlos'
benefit, or was he----
Mr. GERACI. For Carlos' benefit, I guess, Carlos' or the Cuban exiles'.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you hear any conversation about training guerrillas
to oppose Castro?
Mr. GERACI. No. He didn't say anything about being an expert rifle
shooter, never said anything about going to Russia or joining or
training or anything like that.
Mr. LIEBELER. Well, was there a conversation concerning the training of
anti-Castro troops or guerrillas to oppose Castro?
Mr. GERACI. No; that must have been later, maybe when he came back some
other time.
Mr. LIEBELER. Now were you present at all times while Oswald was there?
Mr. GERACI. We got there before he did and we left at the same time he
did.
Mr. LIEBELER. So, as far as you know, there wouldn't have been any
opportunity for Oswald and Carlos to talk among themselves where you
wouldn't have heard what they said?
Mr. GERACI. That is right; because we were there all the time.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you have no recollection that Oswald told Carlos that
he wanted to help train anti-Castro guerrillas to fight against Castro?
Mr. GERACI. None at all; none that I remember.
Mr. LIEBELER. All right. Now what was Oswald going to bring this marine
book back for?
Mr. GERACI. Well, I guess to give to Carlos to help him out or
something. First he was going to give it to me and Vance. I guess he
wanted us to blow up the bridge or something. I don't know. We said no;
and so he said, "OK, I will give it to Carlos," you know, because after
all Carlos--I guess he could use it better than we could, you know,
blow up bridges in Cuba or something, and I guess he was just going to
give it to him so he could learn some stuff from it. I wouldn't know.
Mr. LIEBELER. Now when you left the store did you try to follow Oswald
at all?
Mr. GERACI. Well, we had some thought about it. When he left, he was
going to go down--he crossed Canal Street and he was--he kept on going
that way, I think on St. Charles or Claiborne--way down there near the
end--which one is closer to the river? St. Charles?
Mr. LIEBELER. I am not familiar with New Orleans, so I get them mixed
up.
Mr. GERACI. It must have been St. Charles he went down, and Vance said,
"Hey, let's follow him, see where he lives." He told us where he lived,
but the way he told us the address----
Mr. LIEBELER. You don't know what it was?
Mr. GERACI. When the FBI man came by my house that day, he asked me,
and I could just barely remember it. I remember it was to the left of
Canal Street. It was Magazine Street.
Mr. LIEBELER. Magazine Street? What number?
Mr. GERACI. Well, I remembered the number a little. I couldn't remember
it altogether, but I remember----
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember that he had told you the number?
Mr. GERACI. Yes; and I could--I had a few--I mean I had a little
recollection about what it was, like it was a big number sort of like
and had two zeros in it or something. I don't even remember. It seemed
that his number did have that. We decided--we thought maybe we can
follow him for fun, but we decided no, we had better not, you know,
because it was not good or anything, so we just went up Canal Street.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember whether Oswald said anything about having
been in Florida?
Mr. GERACI. In Florida?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes.
Mr. GERACI. I am not too sure about that.