Mr. DULLES. Who did you hear it from?
Mrs. OSWALD. From Lee.
Mr. McKENZIE. Did any Soviet Government official come to see you or Lee
after you were married, and visit with you?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. McKENZIE. Did Lee, from time to time, have to report to any Soviet
Government agency after you were married?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. McKENZIE. And how often did he make a report to a government
official or to a government agency?
Mrs. OSWALD. He had to go every month or every 3 months. I don't
remember how often. It was either every month or every 2 or 3 and get a
stamp in his residence permit.
Mr. McKENZIE. And how long would he be gone on those occasions from
home, or from work?
Mrs. OSWALD. About half an hour.
Mr. McKENZIE. You have mentioned that he had Cuban friends and friends
from the Argentine in Minsk. Did he ever have any Mexican friends in
Minsk?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. McKENZIE. Did he ever mention to you anyone that he knew in Mexico,
either from Cuba or from the Soviet Union or from any other place, any
name of anyone?
Mrs. OSWALD. He might have had some, but I don't know anything about
any of them. He never mentioned it.
Mr. McKENZIE. It has been reported that--in the papers--that at the
time you left New Orleans, or at the time that Lee Harvey Oswald left
New Orleans, that he had two books on Marxism and a fiction book
written by Ian Fleming called "To Russia With Love." Do you recall
seeing that book there in the apartment?
Mrs. OSWALD. I only knew about the two books on Marxism and Leninism. I
don't know anything about this third one.
Mr. McKENZIE. And those books you know about, were they books from the
public library in New Orleans?
Mrs. OSWALD. I think these were his own private possession. I think he
had even a book in English when he was in Russia on Marxism.
Mr. McKENZIE. After your arrival in the United States, and after you
had left Fort Worth, and had moved into your own apartment, did your
husband have any money?
Mrs. OSWALD. When he left Dallas for Fort Worth?
Mr. McKENZIE. Yes.
Mrs. OSWALD. I think he had some money saved up. He always was saving
money for a rainy day.
(At this point, Representative Ford withdrew from the hearing room.)
Mr. McKENZIE. From what source did he save that money? Where did the
money come from?
Mrs. OSWALD. Only from his salary, from his wages.
Mr. McKENZIE. When he was not working, did he have any other source of
money, or did he have money?
Mrs. OSWALD. When he wasn't working, he got some unemployment
compensation from the place where he had been working.
Mr. McKENZIE. Did he ever receive money to your knowledge from any
other sources, other than from the Government or from his work?
Mrs. OSWALD. The only sources I know of were the companies where he
worked.
Mr. McKENZIE. Who did your husband consider as good friends of his in
Dallas, Tex.?
Mrs. OSWALD. He was most friendly with George De Mohrenschildt.
However, this is not a very nice thing to say for Mr. De
Mohrenschildt's reputation. This has been--had a harmful effect on Mr.
De Mohrenschildt's reputation as a result of the assassination, the
fact that he was friendly with my husband.
Mr. McKENZIE. Did your husband have any other good friends? For
example, did he consider Michael Paine a good friend of his?
Mrs. OSWALD. No; he didn't like Michael Paine. Therefore, I was
surprised when they went to this meeting together. Perhaps they became
friends after this. But it didn't seem so to me. He didn't show it to
me.
Mr. McKENZIE. Did your husband ever give you money or did you ever
handle money in caring for the household, or did he take care of the
money?
Mrs. OSWALD. He never gave me any money. We would go shopping together,
and he would make all the payments.
Mr. McKENZIE. Were there not times when you didn't have enough money
and food in the house, and friends had to help you?
Mrs. OSWALD. It never happened that there was no food in the house and
that friends had to help us. The only time when this might have been
the case was immediately after our arrival in the United States, when
I gave some Russian lessons to Mr. Gregory and his son, and he paid
me for it. And once after we arrived Mr. George Bouhe saw that I was
rather thin and took us to a grocery store and bought us a lot of stuff.
Mr. McKENZIE. And did Mr. George Bouhe or Mrs. Ford have to take you to
the hospital at one time or another?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. McKENZIE. For June?
Mrs. OSWALD. Not Mrs. Ford and not Mr. Bouhe.
Mr. McKENZIE. Who was it?
Mrs. OSWALD. Lydia Dymitruk took me to the hospital.
Mr. McKENZIE. That is all I have, Mr. Chief Justice.
The CHAIRMAN. Thank you, Mrs. Oswald, I think that will be all.
Mr. McKENZIE. Mr. Chief Justice, before we close for the day I do have
one request I would like to make of the Commission on the record.
The CHAIRMAN. Yes.
Mr. McKENZIE. On behalf of Mrs. Oswald, I would like to have returned
to her the original or original copies of all letters which she has
previously furnished to the Commission, diaries, pictures, or any
personal property of Lee Harvey Oswald that was presented to the
Commission, including his personal effects and his diary, in particular
his wedding ring, a watch, belt buckles, or any personal effects
belonging to either Lee Harvey Oswald or Mrs. Oswald that have been
presented as original exhibits to the Commission.
The CHAIRMAN. The Commission will consider that in connection with all
the other things that you asked for in connection with her writings.
Mr. McKENZIE. And may I respectfully ask this. In the Commission's
consideration of our request, in connection with the original
instruments or documents, or whatever it may be, do you at this time
have any idea how long it would be before the Commission would decide?