Senator COOPER. You must have talked to her a great deal about this
assassination of President Kennedy.
Mr. MARTIN. Actually, I tried to avoid most of this stuff.
Senator COOPER. What?
Mr. MARTIN. I tried to avoid most of these things. I don't know, I
figured they would be a sore spot with her, but I don't know whether
they were or not.
Senator COOPER. It would be tremendously helpful to this Commission
to know if she did talk to you about the assassination of President
Kennedy and anything that Lee Oswald might have said about him before
and tell us anything----
Mr. MARTIN. If she had said anything to me about it I would definitely
tell you. I cannot recall any incident that--of the conversation
between she and Lee about any other assassination or about the
President.
Mr. DULLES. Had you ever met or heard of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to
November 22, 1963?
Mr. MARTIN. No.
Representative BOGGS. Mrs. Oswald lived in your home for how long?
Mr. MARTIN. About 2-1/2 months.
Representative BOGGS. You had many conversations with her in that
period of time.
Mr. MARTIN. No, not really many. I was usually out of the house, and
there weren't many opportunities that arose to have a conversation.
Representative BOGGS. Did you ever have any reason to believe that she
was anything other than what she appeared to be, namely an ordinary
housewife who had come to this country as the wife of an American whom
she married?
Mr. MARTIN. Looking back on the whole picture, she doesn't seem quite
right. I mean she doesn't fit.
Representative BOGGS. What do you mean by that?
Mr. MARTIN. As a mother and a housewife. She is too cold for one thing.
Representative BOGGS. Cold in what way?
Mr. MARTIN. Emotionally. This thing, I don't know whether it is the
Russian woman or what, but this thing would have terrifically upset an
American woman, and she was not very upset at all.
Representative FORD. Not upset about the assassination?
Mr. MARTIN. About her husband.
Representative FORD. About her husband's subsequent death?