Mr. RANKIN. Then this is the first time during your married life that
he had ever left it at home where you live?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know whether your husband carried any package with
him when he left the house on November 22nd?
Mrs. OSWALD. I think that he had a package with his lunch. But a small
package.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know whether he had any package like a rifle in some
container?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. What did you do the rest of the morning, after you got up
on November 22d?
Mrs. OSWALD. When I got up the television set was on, and I knew that
Kennedy was coming. Ruth had gone to the doctor with her children and
she left the television set on for me. And I watched television all
morning, even without having dressed. She was running around in her
pajamas and watching television with me.
Mr. RANKIN. Before the assassination, did you ever see your husband
examining the route of the parade as it was published in the paper?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you ever see him looking at a map of Dallas like he did
in connection with the Walker shooting?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. How did you learn of the shooting of President Kennedy?
Mrs. OSWALD. I was watching television, and Ruth by that time was
already with me, and she said someone had shot at the President.
Mr. RANKIN. What did you say?
Mrs. OSWALD. It was hard for me to say anything. We both turned pale. I
went to my room and cried.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you think immediately that your husband might have been
involved?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Did Mrs. Paine say anything about the possibility of your
husband being involved?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, but she only said that "By the way, they fired from
the building in which Lee is working."
My heart dropped. I then went to the garage to see whether the rifle
was there, and I saw that the blanket was still there, and I said,
"Thank God." I thought, "Can there really be such a stupid man in the
world that could do something like that?" But I was already rather
upset at that time--I don't know why. Perhaps my intuition.