Mr. JENNER. You now have a specific recollection you intended to write
the word "Lee"?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; that is correct.
"If she knew Lee had tried to commit suicide while in Russia prior to
their marriage. She did not, and it was the first I knew about it.
Marina later confirmed this, and said that she had asked Lee two or
three times what was the cut on his wrist, pointing to the cut on his
left wrist. Lee would become very mad and tell her nothing. The FBI
read this in Marina's book."
Mr. McKENZIE. "Read this in Marina's book." You misread there. "The FBI
read this in Lee's book."
Mr. JENNER. That is correct?
Mr. OSWALD. That is correct.
"Understand he had a date with another girl around 8 p.m. (This is in
Moscow.)"
Mr. JENNER. Is that in parentheses?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; it is.
Mr. JENNER. The words "this is in Moscow" are in parentheses?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
"And right before she was due to arrive, he cut his wrist. Marina said
she was 'shocked' when the FBI told her this story."
Mr. JENNER. I will not question the witness further about that
entry--unless you wish to pursue it at the moment.
Mr. DULLES. No, follow your own order.
There is one question I would ask that relates to the past. That is
what you testified to just a moment before. This is with regard to
locking in the bathroom for a day.
Did Marina indicate that that was for the purpose of keeping Lee away
from possibly Nixon, if he was to be there that day, or was it to cool
him down? Did you get any impression as to what the purpose was of the
locking in the bathroom?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; I most certainly did. Her intentions as related
to me was to keep him from shooting at Mr. Nixon.
Mr. JENNER. On that particular day, or on some future occasion?
Mr. OSWALD. I would say on the particular day--pardon me. I
misunderstood the question.
Mr. McKENZIE. I think he misunderstood the question.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Was it your impression that Mr. Nixon was to be in Dallas on that
particular day, and that that is the day that Marina locked him in the
bathroom?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Was she locking him in the bathroom to cool him off so he
would not attempt it when Mr. Nixon might be in town some later date?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir, it was her intention, or my impression of her
intentions, that she locked him in the bathroom on that date, to keep
him on that date from shooting at Mr. Richard M. Nixon.
Mr. JENNER. So your impression was this was an imminent event?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. Or that she thought it was an imminent event?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, that, thank you.
Mr. DULLES. That is all I have now.
Mr. JENNER. I take it from your testimony that this ringed notebook,
and in part a diary, is a record first of past events--that you
prepared it subsequently to the events recorded therein.
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. JENNER. Now, start from the beginning, that is the first page, the
first paragraph of which you have read, in order to identify it. I
notice a date--December 6, 1963. Do you find it, sir?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Is that the date on which you prepared at least the first
page or started this memorandum?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. JENNER. Now, would you please take that memorandum or notebook and
identify each page that you wrote at the first sitting--that is, what
you first recorded in the book on the first occasion you wrote in it.
Mr. OSWALD. On the eighth page, approximately midway down, in the
left-hand margin I have a date of 12-7.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Now, I take it, therefore, that your first entries were made--that
you made, covered the pages commencing with the page dated at the top
December 6, 1963, and proceeding consecutively to the eighth page, and
in the center of that page approximately, at the margin, there appears
the figures 12-7.
Mr. OSWALD. That is correct.
Mr. JENNER. You wrote all the intervening material at one sitting?
Mr. OSWALD. That is correct.
Mr. JENNER. And the 12-7 refers, I take it, to December 7, 1963?
Mr. OSWALD. That is correct.
Mr. JENNER. And that is the day following your having made the first
entries?
Mr. OSWALD. That is correct.
Mr. JENNER. Which is December 6, 1963.
Are all the pages that intervene in your handwriting?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; they are.
Mr. McKENZIE. Mr. Jenner, if I may, and for the purpose of the
record, to help speed up the proceedings, I will state on behalf of
Mr. Oswald that all the pages of the diary which you have there in
front of you, and which should be and will be marked an exhibit to
the Commission's record, are in Mr. Oswald's handwriting, they were
written simultaneously on the date as shown in the diary, and were his
recollections of the event as it occurred on that date. Is that correct
Robert?
Mr. JENNER. I appreciate your suggestion, Mr. McKenzie, but there are
some breaks that I would like to identify.
Mr. McKENZIE. Pardon me, sir.
Mr. JENNER. I have marked the document now as Commission Exhibit 323.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 323 for
identification.)
Mr. DULLES. And you wish to ask that it be admitted in evidence?
Mr. JENNER. If I may defer that for a moment.
Are all of the pages of the diary which you have separated and clipped
together at my request in your handwriting?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; they are.
Mr. JENNER. Now, proceeding from the eighth page, which contains the
date entry December 7, 1963, would you please identify what you wrote
on the particular occasion--that is, December 7, 1963?