Mr. OSWALD. No, sir. Then I moved to Denton, Tex.
Mr. DULLES. Denton, Tex.?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. So that at the time of the event, November 22, 1963, you
were residing in Malvern, Tex.?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; I was residing in Denton, Tex.
Mr. JENNER. I should have said Malvern, Ark., anyhow.
Mr. DULLES. Let's see, you were then in Malvern, Ark., from March 1963,
to approximately September 1963?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. JENNER. That is where I misunderstood. I thought he said December.
All right, sir. I take it then at least from Thanksgiving Day, 1962,
and the 23d day of November, 1963, you never had any discussions with
Robert with respect to his desire, if any, to return to Russia, with
Lee rather?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever have any discussion with him on that subject?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever have any discussion with him or he with you or
with Marina or she with you on her return to Russia, whether he desired
it or she did?
Mr. OSWALD. During that period?
Mr. JENNER. Prior to November 23, 1963.
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. When did that discussion that you now have in mind take
place?
Mr. OSWALD. At my home in June of 1962, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Who was present?
Mr. OSWALD. My wife Vada and Lee.
Mr. JENNER. With Marina I take it?
Mr. OSWALD. And Marina was there.
Yes, sir; I was having a conversation or she was having something of a
conversation with me.
Mr. JENNER. Before you give the conversation, was there ever any
other occasion up to and including November 23, 1963 when you had a
discussion with your brother or with Marina respecting the return of
either of them to Russia?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; I only recall this one occasion.
Mr. JENNER. State what was said, please, and by whom.
Mr. OSWALD. This was said by Marina Oswald in June of 1962 in very
broken English: "I never want to go to Russia again."
Mr. JENNER. Return to Russia?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And that was said in the presence of your brother Lee, your
presence and your wife's presence?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; I feel certain that all four of us were present.
Mr. JENNER. Did your brother say anything on that occasion?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. As to that subject matter?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. This took place in your home? How long after they had
returned from Russia did this conversation take place?
Mr. McKENZIE. What was that question?
Mr. OSWALD. I would say 1 or 2 weeks.
Mr. JENNER. One or two weeks after they had returned from Russia?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. That is when they were staying with you after their return?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. At any time prior to November 23, 1962, were you aware or
did any incident arise or conversation take place indicating any desire
on your brother Lee's part to go to Cuba?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; it did not.
Mr. JENNER. Or to Mexico?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; it did not.
Mr. JENNER. Or any other country than the United States?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; there was not.
Mr. DULLES. Was there any particular reason why you did not have some
contact with Lee during the period November, Thanksgiving 1962, and
your departure for Arkansas in March of 1963?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; none that I was aware of. I did write him on two
or three occasions asking him to advise me of his address in Dallas,
Tex., so when I had an opportunity either on business or otherwise
passing through where I could possibly stop and see him, if not Marina
and the child.
His response to this was as it is stated in the letter of March 17,
1963, that generally he was moving and it was not settled and he would
always retain the post office box in Dallas, Tex., where I might reach
him through the mail and that I would not be able to see him or his
family when I came through town.
Mr. DULLES. Did that surprise you?
Mr. OSWALD. It did not at first, sir, because I realized he was not
settled as to a stable job and to an apartment. However, it did concern
me later, and I refer to my letter that I wrote him in March of 1963
which he replied to on March 17 or March 16, 1963.
Mr. JENNER. Which is Commission Exhibit 322.
Mr. OSWALD. That I would like to have an address other than a post
office box, and when again he did not furnish me this information, I
did not respond to his letter of March 17, 1963. The last time I wrote
him was in September 1963 when I returned to Texas and our moving
into Denton, Tex., advising him of my new address, and still at that
time requesting again an address where they were staying at in Dallas
so that I might contact him, since again we were close together,
approximately 30 miles away.
Mr. JENNER. And he did not respond to that?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; he never responded to that letter that I wrote him
in September other than on the day that I visited him at Dallas County
Jail or Dallas City Jail on November 23, 1963, he did say before I had
an opportunity to say anything to him, "Robert, you now are living in
Denton, aren't you?" And I said yes.
In other words, he had received my letter of September 1963.
Mr. JENNER. This was elicited by Mr. Dulles' question, his failure to
advise you in due course eventually here as late as September 1963 of
his location in Dallas aroused some suspicions, doubts or a question in
your mind?