The CHAIRMAN. The Commission will be in order.
Shall we reswear Mrs. Oswald?
Mr. RANKIN. I would think her former swearing would be sufficient, Mr.
Chief Justice.
The CHAIRMAN. Very well. You consider yourself under oath, do you, Mrs.
Oswald?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Mrs. Oswald, we would like to have you tell about the
incident in regard to Mr. Nixon that you have told about since we had
your last examination. Could you tell us what you know about that
incident, first, when it happened insofar as you can recall?
Mrs. OSWALD. I am very sorry I didn't mention this before. I prefer
that you ask me the questions and that will help me to remember what
there is.
Mr. RANKIN. Can you tell us what Mr. Nixon it is, was it Richard Nixon,
the former Vice President of the United States that you were referring
to?
Mrs. OSWALD. I only know one Nixon and I think it was Richard Nixon
which it was all about.
Mr. RANKIN. Can you fix the date when this occurrence did happen?
Approximately?
Mrs. OSWALD. It was a weekend before he went to New Orleans and after
the Walker business I think. But I might be mistaken as to whether or
not this was a weekend because I am basing this on the fact that my
husband was home and he wasn't--wasn't always employed and he was at
home weekdays as well sometimes, so I can't be entirely sure that it
was a weekend.
Mr. RANKIN. Can you place the place of the various homes you had that
this happened?
Mrs. OSWALD. Neely Street.
Mr. RANKIN. At the Neely Street house. Do you know what time of day it
occurred?
Mrs. OSWALD. This was in the morning.
Mr. RANKIN. Who was there?
Mrs. OSWALD. Just my husband and me.
Mr. RANKIN. Now, will you describe in detail just what happened. Mrs.
Oswald, when you are answering the questions will you try to break up
your answers, and let the interpreter try to translate; I think it
will be helpful in not having the interpreter have to try to remember
everything of a long answer. Do you understand me?
Mr. DULLES. May I suggest also, Mr. Rankin, that I think it would
be preferable that the record be in the first person, that is, the
interpreter translate just as she said it.
I was looking over the earlier record and that is the way it was over
the earlier record and it went quite well.
Mrs. OSWALD. It was early in the morning and my husband went out to get
a newspaper, then he came in and sat reading the newspaper. I didn't
pay any attention to him because I was occupied with the housework.
Then he got dressed and put on a good suit. I saw that he took a
pistol. I asked him where he was going, and why he was getting
dressed. He answered, "Nixon is coming. I want to go and have a look."
I said, "I know how you look," or rather, "I know how you customarily
look, how you customarily take a look," because I saw he was taking the
pistol with him rather than I know how you look in the sense that you
are dressed, how you look at things is what I mean.
Mr. RANKIN. Had it come to your attention, Mrs. Oswald, that Mr. Nixon
was going to be in Dallas prior to that time?
Mrs. OSWALD. No; it did not.
Mr. RANKIN. Had you seen anything in the newspapers or heard anything
over the radio or television?
Mrs. OSWALD. No; we didn't have TV. I didn't see this in the newspaper.
Mr. DULLES. Do you know what newspaper it was in which your husband
read this report?
Mrs. OSWALD. No; Dallas Morning News maybe. It was a morning paper.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know whether there was any information at all in the
papers about Mr. Nixon planning to come to Dallas about that time?
Mrs. OSWALD. I didn't ever read the newspaper and I did not know;
therefore, didn't know whether there was any information in the
newspapers prior to this time about Vice President Nixon's arrival in
Dallas.
Representative FORD. Could we establish the date more precisely, either
by the newspapers or by testimony from Mrs. Oswald?
(At this point, the Chief Justice left the hearing room.)
Mr. RANKIN. Mrs. Oswald, can you help us by telling how many days it
was before you went to New Orleans that this incident occurred?
Mrs. OSWALD. What day did I go to New Orleans?
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall that your husband went to New Orleans on
April 24?
Mrs. OSWALD. April 24? My husband?
Mr. RANKIN. Yes; and you went at a later date with Mrs. Paine, do you
remember that?
Mrs. OSWALD. I remember it was about 2 weeks before.
Mr. RANKIN. Two weeks before April 24?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes; but when was the incident with Walker?
Mr. RANKIN. April 10 was the Walker incident. Does that help you?