Miss MUMFORD. Yes; but they never spoke to each other on rest stops.
Oswald just went his way completely.
Mr. BALL. When you arrived at Mexico City did the English man get off
the bus with Oswald, or at the same time when Oswald did?
Miss MUMFORD. I don't remember. I remember Oswald was standing
completely alone in the bus station.
Mr. BALL. What did the Englishman do?
Miss MUMFORD. I don't remember what he did at all. We got off the bus
and I don't remember seeing him leave the bus even.
Mr. BALL. Now, did you have any conversation with the English couple to
indicate that they had never before seen Oswald?
Miss MUMFORD. No; I don't think they made any reference to him at all.
Mr. BALL. The Federal Bureau of Investigation agent that you talked
to on the 12th of December stated this: That in talking with the
Englishman, the elderly Englishman, he said, and I will quote what he
put down, "I gather the young man sitting with me has been to Mexico
City before."
Do you remember words like that used by the Englishman?
Miss MUMFORD. That may have been his words. I really don't remember.
That was just the general impression I got of what he said to me.
Mr. BALL. Now, also at that time, the agent reported that it was your
opinion that "Oswald was traveling alone, and that he had had no
previous contact with any of the English-speaking people on the bus
prior to that time." Did you tell him that?
Miss MUMFORD. Yes; and that is still my opinion.
Mr. BALL. Did you have breakfast on that morning before you got into
one of your stops? Did you have a breakfast?
Miss MUMFORD. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Where? Did you notice the name of the place?
Miss MUMFORD. No; I don't know the name of the place. It was about 6
a.m. in the morning and we arrived in Mexico City at about 10, so it
would have been about 4 hours before we arrived in the city.
Mr. BALL. Did you eat with Oswald at that time; eat breakfast with him?
Miss MUMFORD. No.
Mr. BALL. Did he eat breakfast with anyone?
Miss MUMFORD. I don't remember at that particular stage. Earlier in the
night, twice, I knew he ate alone.
Mr. BALL. In the statement which the agent reported, the agent reported
his conversation with you, and he says that, "Oswald always ate alone
except for breakfast on the morning of September 27, 1963, when he ate
with the English couple." Do you remember whether Oswald ate breakfast
with the English couple?
Miss MUMFORD. I don't; no. Pat may have remembered that. I don't
remember seeing him at all in that particular restaurant.
Mr. BALL. Did you give this young man a nickname?