Mr. BALL. Mrs. Randle, where do you live?
Mrs. RANDLE. 2438 Westfield, Irving, Tex.
Mr. BALL. And you live there with your husband and three daughters, do
you?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. And your brother?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Wesley?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. How long has Wesley been living there?
Mrs. RANDLE. Since September, somewhere around the first, I am not sure
just the date.
Mr. BALL. Do you know Mrs. Ruth Paine?
Mrs. RANDLE. She is a neighbor that lives up the street from me.
Mr. BALL. When did you first meet Mrs. Paine?
Mrs. RANDLE. Well, for a period, I am not sure of this, it is quite 2
years, I lived across the street from her. I didn't visit with her, but
I visited with her neighbor who lives next door.
Mr. BALL. What is her name?
Mrs. RANDLE. Mrs. Dorothy Roberts.
Mr. BALL. That is on Fifth Street in Irving, Tex.?
Mrs. RANDLE. That is right; yes.
Mr. BALL. That was before you moved down the street to the corner of
Westfield and Fifth Street?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. You had never visited in Mrs. Paine's home?
Mrs. RANDLE. I was in her home on one occasion that I remember at a
birthday party for one of her children and she invited mine.
Mr. BALL. How long ago?
Mrs. RANDLE. It has been about a year ago.
Mr. BALL. That is the only time you have visited Mrs. Paine?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Did you ever meet Marina Oswald?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes, sir; I did.
Mr. BALL. When did you meet her?
Mrs. RANDLE. The first time I met her was over at this Mrs. Roberts.
I had gone up there to see Mrs. Roberts and her, Mrs. Oswald and Mrs.
Paine was over there drinking coffee, that was the first time I met her.
Mr. BALL. When was that?
Mrs. RANDLE. Well, I believe it was the first week in October.
Mr. BALL. That is the first time you had ever met Mrs. Oswald?
Mrs. RANDLE. Officially met her. I had seen her out in the yard and
through the neighbor I knew who she was. I hadn't met her until that
time.
Mr. BALL. Did you ever see her again to talk to her, Marina Oswald?
Mrs. RANDLE. Well, she couldn't speak English, "How are you" and things
like that was about all she could say and I did visit with Mrs. Roberts
quite often and so she would be out in the yard and she would speak.
Mr. BALL. In whose yards, Mrs. Roberts' yard or Mrs. Paine's?
Mrs. RANDLE. Mrs. Paine's. She played with her children, and kept the
yard and things like that.
Mr. BALL. But on this one occasion she was in the house, Mrs. Roberts'
house?
Mrs. RANDLE. Mrs. Roberts.
Mr. BALL. With Mrs. Paine, Mrs. Roberts and yourself?
Mrs. RANDLE. That is right.
Mr. BALL. Was there some conversation at that time about her husband
Lee Oswald?
Mrs. RANDLE. Well, they had--it was just general knowledge in the
neighborhood that he didn't have a job and she was expecting a baby. Of
course, I didn't know where he was or anything. And of course you know
just being neighborly and everything, we felt sorry for Marina because
her baby was due right away as we understood it, and he didn't have any
work, so they said, so it was just----
Mr. BALL. Mrs. Paine told you that Lee didn't have any work?
Mrs. RANDLE. Well, I suppose. It was just in conversation.
Mr. BALL. Marina didn't take part in the conversation?
Mrs. RANDLE. No. She couldn't. So far as I know, she couldn't speak.
Mr. BALL. You and Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Paine talked about it?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Was there anything said then about the Texas School Book
Depository as a place he might get a job?
Mrs. RANDLE. Well, we didn't say that he might get a job, because
I didn't know there was a job open. The reason that we were being
helpful, Wesley had just looked for a job, and I had helped him to try
to find one. We listed several places that he might go to look for
work. When you live in a place you know some places that someone with,
you know, not very much of an education can find work.
So, it was among one of the places that we mentioned. We mentioned
several others, and Mrs. Paine said that well, he couldn't apply for
any of the jobs that would require driving because he couldn't drive,
and it was just in conversation that you might talk just any day and
not think a thing on earth about it. In fact, I didn't even know that
he had even tried any place that we mentioned.
Mr. BALL. What were some of the other places mentioned?
Mrs. RANDLE. Well, I remember two of them. Mrs. Roberts entered into
the conversation and, of course, she is more familiar with the place
than I am. It was Manor Bakeries which was a home delivery service.
Then there was this Texas Gypsum which makes sheet rock and things like
that, and we mentioned because Wesley had tried those places that I
mentioned those.
Mr. BALL. And then you also mentioned the Texas Book Depository?
Mrs. RANDLE. Well, I didn't know there was a job opening over there.
Mr. BALL. But did you mention it?
Mrs. RANDLE. But we said he might try over there. There might be
work over there because it was the busy season but I didn't have any
previous knowledge that there was any job opening.
Mr. BALL. Did you later learn that Lee had applied for a job?
Mrs. RANDLE. She told me, Mrs. Paine told me, later that he had applied
for the job, and had gotten the job and she thanked us for naming the
places and things like that.
Mr. BALL. Did you tell your brother that a fellow named Lee Oswald was
going to work for them?
Mrs. RANDLE. No, sir; I didn't even know his name. She said Lee so I
just assumed that was his last name and I just merely mentioned to
Wesley that he had got the job or a job over there.
Mr. BALL. That Lee had the job?
Mrs. RANDLE. That Mrs. Paine said that, I had told Wesley that he
might--that she said he was going to call over there.
In fact, Mrs. Paine asked me if I would call and see if there was a
job available and I told her, no, that I didn't know anybody over
there, and if she wanted to call over the place she would have to do it
because I didn't know if there was any job openings over there.
Mr. BALL. You told Wesley, though, that you had--Mrs. Paine had told
you that Lee had applied for a job and gotten a job there?
Mrs. RANDLE. Sir, I don't remember if I mentioned it to him or not.
Mr. BALL. When you said a moment ago that you had mentioned something
to Wesley?
Mrs. RANDLE. I might have had. But I can't say for sure I did because
at the time it was unimportant to me. It didn't really matter.
Mr. BALL. In other words, you are not sure whether you did or didn't?
Mrs. RANDLE. That is right. I might have, I don't know maybe for sure
if I did.
Mr. BALL. Did Lee tell you at sometime that he had started to drive?
Mrs. RANDLE. I never talked to Lee.
Mr. BALL. Did Wesley tell you that he was driving Lee home weekends or
driving him to Irving weekends?
Mrs. RANDLE. Wesley had told me that he asked to ride out on weekends.
Mr. BALL. Did you ever see him arrive with Lee?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Do you recall on a Thursday night, November 21 that you saw
Lee get out of Wesley's car?
Mrs. RANDLE. That is right.
Mr. BALL. About what time of night was it?
Mrs. RANDLE. About 5:20, I believe, 5:15 or 5:25 something like that.
Mr. BALL. Where were you when you saw him?
Mrs. RANDLE. I was on my way to the grocery store.
Mr. BALL. Did you talk to Wesley about the fact that he had brought Lee
home on this night?
Mrs. RANDLE. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Did you think it was unusual that he had come home that night?
Mrs. RANDLE. Well, I knew that he had--Friday is the only time he had
ever ridden with him before which was a couple of times, I don't think
he rode with him over three times, I am not sure but I never did know
of him arriving, you know, except on Friday.
Mr. BALL. Well, did you mention to Wesley that night or did you ask
Wesley that night how Lee happened to come home on Thursday?
Mrs. RANDLE. I might have asked him.
Mr. BALL. Do you remember anything about curtain rods?
Mrs. RANDLE. Yes.
Mr. BALL. What do you remember about that?