Representative BOGGS. I am frankly reluctant to ask you the question,
but you and your brother John must have speculated about how this event
could have happened, did you not?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, and no, sir. To this extent: On Sunday night November
24, with the help of the Secret Service, I was able to reach my older
brother John by telephone. He did not have a telephone in his house. We
had to go through the Air Force base where he was located.
Mr. DULLES. Where was he living then?
Mr. OSWALD. In San Antonio with the Air Force.
I talked to him that night and, of course, at that time he was aware
that Lee had been killed. I talked briefly to him, I say briefly,
perhaps 4 or 5 minutes, and discussed with him whether or not he
thought it was best that he attended the funeral or not, and it was my
opinion that it would not be best for him or his family since he was,
his name was Pic, and to a great extent he would be out of the picture
and there was no sense in exposing him to the publicity of the funeral.
Not to mention the travel time involved in coming up from San Antonio
and the like.
Mr. DULLES. You were not in touch with him between the time of the
assassination and the arrest of your brother and the time of his death,
the 36 hours?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir.
Mr. DULLES. You were not in touch with your brother Pic at that time?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; I was not.
Mr. McKENZIE. But you attempted to reach him?
Mr. OSWALD. No.
Mr. McKENZIE. You did afterwards.
Representative BOGGS. Have you seen much of your mother since the
assassination?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; I have not.
Representative BOGGS. Is this because you had some emotional problems
or difficulties, or what?
Mr. OSWALD. Sir, I would say, of course, mother was out at the Inn
of Six Flags with Marina and myself and the children during the week
following up to Friday which would be, I believe, the 29th of November,
when she went to her home and I left her to go after my wife and the
children out at the farm, and Marina went over to Mr. Martin's house,
this was the last time I have seen her since then. She has called quite
a few times. I talked to her a number of times on the telephone. She
is rather persistent to the extent that, and this is not new to me, we
have never really gotten along, she tries to dominate me and my wife,
and I might say that applies to John and his family, and also to the
extent that it applied to Lee and his wife, and there is just generally
the picture as far as I and my mother are concerned.
Representative BOGGS. That is all, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. DULLES. The testimony we had here from Mrs. Oswald indicated that
it was approximately a year prior to the assassination of the President
that he had not been in touch with his mother, and your testimony is
to the general effect that about the same period, you had not been in
touch.
Is that just a coincidence, or did something happen about that time so
that both of you, both brothers more or less separated from the mother?