The President's Commission reconvened at 3 p.m.
Mr. DULLES. Gentlemen, the Commission will come to order.
Are you ready to continue the testimony, Mr. Martin?
Mr. MARTIN. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. Will you carry forward, Mr. Redlich?
Mr. REDLICH. Mr. Martin, I would like to hand you a group of newspaper
clippings which have not as yet been introduced in evidence and I would
ask you to look through them and to pick out any which you feel create
an image of Mrs. Marina Oswald which you feel does not conform to the
reality of her personality, as you know it, and ask you in regard to
each one to tell us in what respect the facts as reported in each of
these clippings do not conform to the real person as you know her.
Mr. DULLES. I assume we can avoid repetition, can't we?
Mr. REDLICH. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. Incidents here have been touched on in other papers and we
don't need to touch them again.
Mr. REDLICH. Yes, Mr. Chairman.
During the intermission we have gone through all of the newspaper
clippings and eliminated the duplicate stories and hope to eliminate
duplicate facts as we go along.
Mr. MARTIN. Well, this one is inaccurate that it doesn't have anything
to do with her image, so to speak. It says she spent Christmas----
Mr. REDLICH. For the sake of the record if we are going to have comment
on them I would like to have them introduced as evidence because the
record wouldn't state what they are about.
Are you going to make comment?
Mr. MARTIN. Do you want me to?
Mr. REDLICH. If you are going to make comment about it, if you feel
there is some inaccuracy here then I would like to introduce that in
evidence, since apparently you are.
Mr. MARTIN. It is inaccurate as far as the date in the article is
concerned.
Mr. REDLICH. The witness has handed to us a newspaper story which we
have marked as Commission Exhibit No. 328.
Mr. DULLES. Could we have the inaccuracy mentioned here?
Mr. REDLICH. Yes, the headline of which is "Mrs. Oswald Will Bare Life
of Mate" and I request it be admitted in evidence.
Mr. DULLES. Any objection?
Mr. LEECH. No.
Mr. DULLES. It will be admitted.
(The document referred to was marked Commission's Exhibit No. 328 for
identification and received in evidence.)
Mr. REDLICH. I show you Commission Exhibit No. 328 and ask you if there
are any inaccuracies in that statement.
Mr. MARTIN. "Mrs. Oswald and Her Children Now Make Their Home at an
Undisclosed Hotel" which is inaccurate--"and it was in that motel room,
somewhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that the youngest Oswald child
spent her first Christmas. There was a tree, toys and even a visit from
Mrs. Oswald's brother who lives 30 miles to the north in Denton, Tex."
That was the inaccuracy that she spent Christmas not in a motel but in
our home.
Mr. DULLES. That is about from 3 o'clock in the afternoon as I recall
until 7:30 in the evening.
Mr. MARTIN. No, sir; that was Thanksgiving.
Mr. DULLES. That was Thanksgiving. Spent the whole day of Christmas in
your home?
Mr. MARTIN. Well, she lived there. She was at our home 24 hours a day.