Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. You have not, is that right? You have no lawyer with you?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Senator RUSSELL. No.
Mr. RANKIN. When you appeared before the Commission the other two
times, you did have a lawyer with you, did you not?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes--the other two times.
Mr. RANKIN. Is there some reason why you do not have a lawyer at this
time?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. That attorney cost me too much.
Mr. RANKIN. And--before this hearing, Mrs. Oswald, we offered to, that
is the Commission offered to furnish you an attorney if you wanted one
to be supplied to you for this hearing, did it not?* **
**Mrs. OSWALD. You did so?
Mr. RANKIN. I understood that that message was given to you by the
Secret Service that we would ask for the appointment of counsel to
attend the meeting with you, if you wished it, and you said you didn't
need it, you would just tell the truth?
Mrs. OSWALD. Mr. Sorrels called me on telephone and he asked me if I
have a lawyer, an attorney, and I said, "No," and he told me, "Do I
want to have one?" and I said, "No."
Mr. RANKIN. And you understood that you would be supplied a lawyer if
you wanted one and you said you didn't, is that right?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. You referred to the fact, when you were asked, that your
husband had a rifle in the Soviet Union while he was there. In your
prior testimony, you referred to either a rifle or a shotgun, do you
know which it was?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I do not know the difference between the shotgun and the
rifle.