Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, June was at the Inn of the Six Flags and if I am as
smart as they are and if they are as smart as I am, there could be a
little child crying all during the rest of the testimony.
Mr. RANKIN. I see, but there wasn't a little child at the place where
you gave your press conference?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, but I am not familiar with--but couldn't a tape be
added and spliced and couldn't a child voice be put in? I am just
saying, because I have said before and I am saying now I was taped
for about 10 minutes, just where this business came in was exactly 10
minutes, "Pardon me," now I spoke for over two and a half hours at the
Fort Worth Press Club and was taped there.
What they can do with that tape, I don't know.
Mr. RANKIN. Who asked you the questions when you were answering them at
the Fort Worth Press Club?
Mrs. OSWALD. Now, it was not in this sequence, answer and questions.
So, I am saying, I do not know how they can get my voice and do the
tape and answering questions for the rest, but gentlemen, I am not out
of my mind and I have said this over and over publicly, that I have
never been interviewed, answer and question, but for about 10 minutes
at the Inn of the Six Flags.
Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, then I would like to go down about 5 or 6
minutes more maybe and see what it sounds like and the background if we
play for just a few minutes.
The CHAIRMAN. All right.
Mr. RANKIN. Would you drop down for another 5 minutes? Skip about 5
minutes, please.
Mrs. OSWALD. After you start may I say something else?
Mr. RANKIN. Yes.
Mrs. OSWALD. All of this here I have said and also said in my home and
I have testified that there was a tape recorder in my home brought in
by Mr. Max Phillips, Mr. Rankin. Why can't--I don't know anything about
tape but it can be spliced and edited and so forth, that much I know
because when I have talked for reporters, they don't use everything I
say. They splice.
Mr. RANKIN. But you recognize, Mrs. Oswald, it would be quite a job to
splice in each one of those questions.
Mrs. OSWALD. Well, the assassination of the President of the United
States and a scapegoat for it would be quite a job, it would be worth
while, yes, sir, I realize that.
Mr. RANKIN. Let's try a little more.
(Transcription played.)
Mr. RANKIN. Do you want to say anything more about this?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, I do. I haven't gone through all of this. I have
made the statement over and over that my conversation was stopped. It
was approximately a 10-minute conversation and it was stopped with the
remark "I see my son crying. All my thoughts have left me."
Is that remark in this any place?
Mr. RANKIN. I don't recall that it is.
Mrs. OSWALD. Well, we will have to recall, because this, I have stated
and was said and that is when I stopped the conversation at the Inn
of the Six Flags. Robert came out crying because he couldn't get a
minister and I said, "I see my son crying, now all my thoughts have
left me," and the interview stopped at the Inn of Six Flags which I
have testified was approximately 10 minutes.
Now, sir, there was a microphone in my home. This is not news to
anybody. I have said this over and over and over. The ordinary layman
by now knows my whole story, Chief Justice Warren. There was Mr. Max
Phillips who had a microphone in my home. I testified on tape for over
2 hours at--talked at the Fort Worth Club, which would be, it is the
same story over and over, I have told you all the same story that you
already have here.
The CHAIRMAN. Yes, but it wasn't the same man interrogating you at this
place as it was at this hotel, was it?
Mrs. OSWALD. About now--I don't know if this is the same man on the
whole tape because I haven't listened to it. No, no one interrogated me
at the Fort Worth Press Club, sir. I talked, there was an open press.
The CHAIRMAN. But it is the same voice we are hearing now asking you
questions as at the beginning of this tape, isn't it?
Mrs. OSWALD. That is correct. I have just stated, since this is a very
big operation, that this could be edited and this man's voice put on
there. This I know, because the radio stations called me and they
edited what I do. Isn't this possible, that this could be edited, and
that this man asked the questions and then my voice be put in. It would
be a big job but I am asking isn't that possible? I swear that I have
never had answers and questions of this sort, gentlemen.
The CHAIRMAN. Shall we turn over about 10 minutes more and see if the
same voices are in it there?
(Transcription played.)
Mrs. OSWALD. I am not sure but I think it was possible it was an editor
that he put me on there.
(Transcription played.)
The CHAIRMAN. Well, Mrs. Oswald, those are the same voices.
Mrs. OSWALD. That is Mr. Mike Howard's voice, yes, sir, I recognize his
voice, yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. And that is your voice?
Mrs. OSWALD. That is my voice.
The CHAIRMAN. Yes.
Mrs. OSWALD. But I am not going to vary from my story.
The CHAIRMAN. Yes, all right.
Mrs. OSWALD. That is an interview just 10 minutes at the Inn of Six
Flags and that was the only time when going to the courthouse and
asked for the FBI of Lee getting the money to come home from the State
Department and Congressman Wright knew about it and they left and they
didn't even come back and talk to me, sir, yes, sir.
Mr. RANKIN. Play just the last part.
Mrs. OSWALD. The last 25 minutes.
Mr. RANKIN. These last remarks that we listened to were on page 13.
(Transcription played.)
The CHAIRMAN. Those are the same two voices, Howard's voice and your
voice.
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, I say those are the two same voices, Mr. Mike
Howard's voice, yes, sir.
Mr. RANKIN. That is on page 21 of the transcript. Mr. Chairman, do you
think there is any need for any more?
The CHAIRMAN. I don't see any need for going any further with it.
Mrs. Oswald says she didn't have this interview, these questions were
not asked of her and these answers given but she does identify the
voices as being hers and all we have is her word, and this tape, and
the transcription at the present time. So for the moment, I suppose we
will just have to leave it where it is.