Mrs. OSWALD. There is no face.
Mr. RANKIN. That is the man right in the doorway?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, sir. This is Lee's build and everything. The first
thing I saw.
Now, they think this is Lee.
No, sir, I do not.
Everybody thinks this is Lee.
Mr. RANKIN. When you say they think--it is the man leaning against the
side of the doorway, is that right?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. That is the picture that everybody is convinced is
Lee.
Mr. RANKIN. And you think it is the one next to him that doesn't show
any face? It shows the arms over the head?
Mrs. OSWALD. He has his arms up in the air.
Now, that is what I saw immediately--against everybody else seeing it.
And this woman and child could possibly be Marina.
Now, to explain this--whether I thought Lee shot Officer Tippit or
not--Lee could be escorted out of this building with a gun in his back
possibly. I am just speculating, sir. But there is a lot of speculation
in this case all over the world. From foreign countries I have letters.
And that is how he got out of the building. And this same officer could
have been killed, because he was involved in this, and then he could
have been killed, to be kept quiet. There is a possibility of this,
gentlemen.
Mr. RANKIN. Mrs. Oswald, will you take this blue pencil and carefully
mark on Exhibit 203?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't mean to be telling this Commission what to do. And
I cannot do it. But I would like to have this picture printed. And I am
willing--I have some few dollars--I have been selling some pictures. I
am willing to give a reward of $1,000 if this picture can be printed
and these people come--it would have to be Secret Service, FBI, and
state their names.
I would like to have the people here--let us find out who those people
are.
Mr. RANKIN. Will you mark the letter "A" above the part that you have
circled on Exhibit 203, that you say are Marina and the little girl?
Mrs. OSWALD. All right.
Mr. RANKIN. And "B" over what you circled as being your idea of Lee
Oswald being there.
Mrs. OSWALD. Now, that is what I saw, and nobody else has seen this.
They see the man next to him.
Would you want me to put the man next to it that they see as Lee? He
has the same clothes on as Lee.
Mr. RANKIN. Well--you can testify the man that other people said was
Lee Oswald, that you pointed to before on Exhibit 203, would be the one
in between, would that be right?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. He has the same clothes as Lee.
Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, we offer in evidence Exhibit 203 as now
marked with the identification.
(The document referred to was received, as indicated, as Commission
Exhibit No. 203.)
Mr. RANKIN. Do you have any other reasons why you think that Officer
Tippit was not killed by your son Lee Oswald?
Mrs. OSWALD. I do not.
But, gentlemen, Mr. Mark Lane has affidavits. And we are investigating
this--if you will have his testimony. He has pertinent information to
this. I intend, when I finish here--I am going to be very quiet about
what happened here, with no comments. But when I finish here, I am
going on speaking tours. I am going to continue the investigation of
the shooting. This is for you. But I intend to continue as long as this
Commission is in session, to investigate, like we have been doing, we
have come up with some very----
The CHAIRMAN. Some very what?
Mrs. OSWALD. Very important factors in this case.
The CHAIRMAN. Well, I thought that is what you were here to tell us
about.
Mrs. OSWALD. I am not the investigator. Mr. Lane is the investigator.
Mr. Lane is my son's attorney, representing my son. And he is
investigating the death of President Kennedy and the consequent murder
of my son.
And he is making tours. And we have these reporters. And we have people
giving us their opinions. We have many, many letters from expert
riflemen. And I have in my possession--they also write to me--that have
gone through this particular instance, and say it cannot possibly be
done in that length of time and so on and so forth. We have a lot of
expert opinions.
Mr. RANKIN. Are you willing to give those to the Commission?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, sir, we want to. This is what I say is our American
way of life. This boy was shot down handcuffed, within a few hours
time, without trial or jury or counsel, even. He did not have a right
to defend himself. So Mr. Lane immediately started to defend this boy.
And people have come to our rescue.
When I read Mr. Lane's brief, and I realized the truth of some of the
statements he said, I contacted Mr. Lane, as you know, and we tried to
come before the Commission.
So from now on, when I am through with this Commission, I am going to
work with Mr. Lane in my own way--I am booked in New York on a tour
next week. And I am going to talk only about the investigation.
We have help, sir. We have Mr. Laurence Ross, who is in New Zealand,
who writes articles--very good. And Captain Wooster, is an expert
rifleman of New Zealand. He does this all the time. He goes all over.