Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; to my knowledge he did not.
Mr. DULLES. I have nothing further at this time. I may have one last
question at the end.
Do you wish to follow up on any of these points?
Mr. JENNER. No; not right at the moment.
Would you take your diary. There are one or two items that I would like
to clear up.
Page 1--you speak of the old Denton plant and the new Denton plant.
Would you please locate those plants?
Mr. OSWALD. They are both located at Denton, Tex., and they are located
approximately a mile apart, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And they are the plants of the Acme Brick Co. by whom you
are employed?
Mr. OSWALD. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And the reason I asked you about these is that you talk
about going from the old to the new plant, and I wanted to locate them.
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. The incident in New Orleans in which your brother was
distributing literature of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee--did that
come to your attention at that time?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; that did not.
Mr. JENNER. And when was the first time that you became--you ever heard
of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, or anything about it?
Mr. OSWALD. I believe this to be, sir, to the best of my remembrance,
on Friday night, November 22, 1963, at the FBI office in Dallas, Tex.
Mr. DULLES. You are referring there, I assume, to Lee Harvey Oswald's
connection with the committee, aren't you? Or are you referring to the
fact whether he knew there was a committee.
Mr. JENNER. Both.
I will separate those. Did you know there was such a committee at any
time up to that occasion--had you heard of its existence?
Mr. OSWALD. Perhaps I had read about it in the paper and not recalling
any significant value to myself I perhaps had forgotten about it.
Mr. JENNER. Then I will ask you the other part.
Had you heard of any connection on the part of your brother with or any
activity on his part with respect to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee,
prior to November 22, 1963.
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; I had not.
Mr. DULLES. You knew nothing of his short arrest in New Orleans?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. DULLES. You didn't even know he was arrested?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir. I did not even know he had traveled from Dallas,
Tex., to New Orleans, until that night of November 22, 1963.
Mr. JENNER. Page 2 of your memorandum--you recited there that an
announcer--I assume a radio station announcer--called you. Did you find
that?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; I do find the area that you are referring to. The
announcer did not call me, sir. It was the radio announcer on the radio.
Mr. JENNER. I see.
And what did the announcer say?
Mr. OSWALD. To the best of my remembrance, sir, the announcer stated
that a man identified as Lee Oswald had been arrested in connection
with a policeman's death and possibly the death of the President of the
United States on or about that approximate time.
Mr. JENNER. And was that the first intimation of any kind or character,
or the first notice or knowledge to you, of the possible involvement
of your brother, Lee Harvey Oswald, either in the murder of Policeman
Tippit or in the assassination of President Kennedy.
Mr. OSWALD. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And where were you when that announcement was made?
Mr. OSWALD. I was in the office of the new Denton plant when this
announcement was made, or at least I first became aware of the
announcement on the radio at that time.
Mr. JENNER. Now, would you give us your immediate mental reaction when
you heard that?
Mr. OSWALD. I believe, sir, my reaction to that would be somewhat
stunned.
Mr. JENNER. Stunned in the sense of disbelieving? You just could not
absorb it?
Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; not to that extent. If I may say this. My own
personal mental attitude, through my entire life, seems to react to
trouble to the extent that I do not perhaps go to pieces, so to speak,
that I react apparently calmly in the face of adversity.
Mr. JENNER. I take it with that disposition that you have that anything
in life is possible--no matter how extraordinary it may seem at the
moment--you retain a grip on yourself?
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; or at least attempt to.
Mr. JENNER. You were disbelieving, but it might have been--at least
your thought was that it was possible, though, you were disbelieving
at the moment?
Mr. OSWALD. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Then you state in your memorandum on page 2 that you
immediately called your wife Vada.
Mr. OSWALD. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And you went directly to the phone and called her?
Mr. OSWALD. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. What did you say to her?
Mr. OSWALD. I asked her first had she been listening to the television
or the radio set, and was she aware that Lee had been arrested. She
stated she had not heard this, even though she had been listening to
television. In her statement to me, to the best of my recollection at
that time, was that they had not, over the television set, referred to
Lee by name.
Mr. JENNER. And, as I recall in your memorandum, you immediately told
her you were going to come right home.
Mr. OSWALD. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And you did depart for home?
Mr. OSWALD. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. On page 3 of your memorandum, you make a reference to your
brother's arrest.
Would you find that place on page 3? The report to you of his arrest.
Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; I have it.
Mr. JENNER. And as I recall, that was a report to you that he had been
arrested?
Mr. OSWALD. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. By whom, and by what means?
Mr. OSWALD. Over the telephone, by Mr. Dubose, the credit manager in
our Fort Worth general office. And, "Bob, brace yourself, your brother
has been arrested."
Mr. JENNER. What did you say?