*Mrs. OSWALD. I can't call it speaking English.
Representative BOGGS. But you understand English, you replied to my
question a moment ago?**
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Representative BOGGS. But you have been speaking English, studying
English, and whom do you live with now?
Mrs. OSWALD. With myself and my kids, with my neighbors.
Representative BOGGS. Do you read English?
Mrs. OSWALD. No. A little bit.
*A little bit.
Mr. GOPADZE. Naturally, she knows the English alphabet, but she doesn't
read too much.
**Sometimes I read on my own, but on the other hand, it might be
entirely different for an American.
Senator RUSSELL. Well, I believe you can speak it pretty well, Mrs.
Oswald. You are a very intelligent person, and I've never seen a woman
yet that didn't learn a foreign language three times as fast as a man.
Mrs. OSWALD. Thank you.
Senator RUSSELL. They all do, and in some places in Russia you run into
women that speak three or four languages very fluently, including in
the high schools, where they have 10 or 12 years of English, starting
in the first grade with it?
Mrs. OSWALD. That's the way they try--to learn it in school.
Senator RUSSELL. Is that your foreign language? I understand in Russia
each student has to study some one foreign language all the way--or at
least for 5 or 6 years?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes; but I don't like this system of education in Russia
to study some languages--well, he can speak, you know.
Senator RUSSELL. Mrs. Oswald, your attorney--your then attorney,
according to the record, asked the Commission some questions
about your memoirs, your diary or whatever it was that you have
written--your reminiscences, and that they not be released. Have you
ever made arrangements yet to sell them? Have you gotten rid of them?
Because--the record of the Commission will be printed at a rather early
date?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. I do not want these memoirs to be published by Warren
Commission.
Senator RUSSELL. Yes; I understand that.
*Mrs. OSWALD. I am now working on a book and I may wish to include
these memoirs in that book. I have no objection to the publication
of the material in those memoirs that have any relation to the
assassination of the President, or anything that is pertinent to this
particular inquiry.
Senator RUSSELL. Of course, a great deal of it is very personal. It's
about your social relations when you were a young woman. Of course,
you are a young woman now, but when you were even younger than you
are now, and the friends that you had, and things of that nature, and
this report is going to be published before too long. And that's among
the evidence there, and I was trying to get some timing on your book
or whatever it is you are going to publish that would utilize this
material, in an effort to help you--that is the only purpose I had, to
try to see that you don't lose the publicity value of the memoirs.*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I understand that and I'm certainly grateful to you for
it.
**Would it be possible to publish in the report only parts of my life,
that pertaining to the assassination, instead of my private life?
Senator RUSSELL. I cannot answer that, and only the entire Commission
could answer that, but when I read that in the testimony, I was hoping
that you had found some means of commercializing on it either to the
moving picture people or to the publishing world.
Mrs. OSWALD. As yet, I have not availed myself of that opportunity, sir.