Mr. LE BLANC. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he seem to be interested in his surroundings or just
sort of a----
Mr. LE BLANC. Like in his greasing records, one time something could
be spelled right, and just a little ways away he might have to use
the same word and it would be all misspelled. I don't know whether he
didn't know how to write or he just didn't care how he put it down.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever question him about that or indicate to him
that he was misspelling words?
Mr. LE BLANC. Well, on a couple of occasions I told him if he could
write plainer, it would be a lot better for me to check, because a
lot of times if something would go wrong with a machine, we would go
to that greasing log and check when is the last time it was greased,
and when you would look at his writing, it would be like Greek, you
couldn't hardly understand it.
Mr. LIEBELER. What did he say about that?
Mr. LE BLANC. Well, he would look at you and turn around and walk off.
Mr. LIEBELER. He wouldn't say anything?
Mr. LE BLANC. Wouldn't say nothing. That is what used to get me. I used
to--if I bawled him out about not greasing something, ordinarily a man
would tell you, well, I will try to do better, or, that is the best I
could do, or something like that, but that is what used to get me so
mad when he would give me no answer whatsoever, and that is when I told
him one day, I said, "You are going to end up driving me crazy if I am
going to have to keep up with this guy, because he don't give me no
answer whatsoever if I bawl him out about his job or anything."
Mr. LIEBELER. Who did you tell that to--Mr. Barbe?
Mr. LE BLANC. Well, I think it was Barbe I told that to.
Mr. LIEBELER. He is a sort of a--what--engineer, plant engineer?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes; he is the plant engineer.
Mr. LIEBELER. You never mentioned to Oswald the misspellings in the
words that----
Mr. LE BLANC. No; I didn't mention misspelling. I figured, well, maybe
the boy can't spell so good, and I figured, well, as long as it was
close, I might be able to understand it, but there was a couple of
occasions he would put things down and I would have to actually ask him
what it was, because it wasn't nowhere near the name that the machine
would actually be.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you noticed that sometimes he would spell things
right and sometimes he would just spell them wrong?
Mr. LE BLANC. Sometimes he would spell them wrong and sometimes he
would spell them right. That is what I couldn't understand about him.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever discuss that with Mr. Barbe or anybody?
Mr. LE BLANC. No; when Mr. Barbe noticed it was the day after the
assassination when the agent was there and we were trying to get all
the possible information we could get off of it, you know, and that is
when we got the greasing records of when he was there and went through
them, and that is when he seen a lot of misspelling.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know whether those records were turned over to the
Secret Service or the FBI?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes; they were turned over.
Mr. LIEBELER. The greasing records were?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you think of anything else that you can remember
about Oswald that you think might be helpful? I am about out of
questions myself. Do you have anything else that you remember----
Mr. LE BLANC. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Or that you think I should have asked you about?
Mr. LE BLANC. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Well, in that case, I want to thank you very much for the
cooperation that you have shown us and for your patience.
Mr. LE BLANC. Any way I could help. I was glad to.
Mr. LIEBELER. I want to thank you very much, Mr. Le Blanc, both
personally and on behalf of the Commission. We appreciate it very much.
Mr. LE BLANC. Because before he was killed, I told the investigators
that if there was any way that I could help them to solve this
thing--because we was pretty well shook up about it to think that
somebody at our place, that worked at our place, had to pull a stunt
like that, and we were out to get down to the bottom of it.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever hear Oswald talking politics with anybody,
or did you ever talk politics to him yourself?
Mr. LE BLANC. No; around election time or anything like that, sometimes
a conversation or something would come up, but he never would bring up
a conversation about any politics.
Mr. LIEBELER. You never heard him say anything about President Kennedy?
Mr. LE BLANC. No, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER. You never had any question come up as to racial problems
or integration problems? He never expressed himself on that?
Mr. LE BLANC. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Are there any Negro employees over there at the plant?
Mr. LE BLANC. Oh, yes; there is a number of them, quite a number of
them.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Oswald demonstrate any particular animosity toward
them, or did he seem to treat them differently from the rest of the men?
Mr. LE BLANC. No; he went along just like if they was white, I mean
just the way he went about with us, not saying anything. That was the
same way with them, looked like.
Mr. LIEBELER. He didn't think that he was either--that he felt
particularly differently about the Negro employees than the other men?
Mr. LE BLANC. No; it didn't look like it. You know what I mean, with
his attitude.
Mr. LIEBELER. I think we have covered it. Thanks a lot.