Senator RUSSELL. I think she should explain it.
*Mrs. OSWALD. George is such a big mouth.
Senator RUSSELL. Let's let her testify, if you don't mind?
Mr. GREGORY. I'm translating what she said.
Senator RUSSELL. Oh, is that what she said? I see. I'm sorry. I'm
sorry--I didn't hear it.
*Mrs. OSWALD. George is such a loud mouth or big talker----
Senator RUSSELL. Big talker--that would be the equivalent, I'm sure.
*Mrs. OSWALD. I simply do not believe that--it is my intuition----
Mr. GOPADZE. No; that point?
*Mrs. OSWALD. It is my opinion that people that talk too much do little.
Senator RUSSELL. And did he talk too much or talk very loud? I don't
know Mr. De Mohrenschildt.** *
Mrs. OSWALD. Very loud.
*He jokes all the time and people don't know when he talks sense and
when he jokes.
**Sometimes he would say something jokingly and people would think that
he's telling the truth.
Senator RUSSELL. Was that boasting about some imaginary achievement of
his?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. It's simply his manner of speaking--of talking. It's his
character.
Senator RUSSELL. He didn't talk then about his feats of any kind, about
performing any great feats?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; he never did.
Senator RUSSELL. It was merely his tone of voice and his manner of
expression that made him sound dangerous?**
**Mrs. OSWALD. He was boasting about it, but he never would follow
through.
Mr. RANKIN. You might tell the full story.
Mrs. OSWALD. Quite often he would be boasting about something big but
he never did follow through.
Senator RUSSELL. So he did talk about great achievements most of the
time?*
**Mrs. OSWALD. Just like a fellow who is just a happy go-around man, a
happy go-lucky man.
Senator RUSSELL. If there is nothing further, the Commission thanks you
very much for your assistance, and you, Mr. Gregory, and above all, the
very remarkable reporter who has been able to stay with us from the
beginning.
The Commission will now recess subject to the call of the Chairman or
Chief Justice Warren.
Mrs. OSWALD. Thank you very much.
Senator RUSSELL. Thank you.
(Whereupon, at 8 p.m., the President's Commission adjourned.)
Transcriber's Notes:
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant
preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Misspellings in quoted evidence not changed; misspellings that could be
due to mispronunciations were not changed.
Some simple typographical errors were corrected.
Inconsistent hyphenation of compound words retained.
Ambiguous end-of-line hyphens retained.
Occasional uses of "Mr." for "Mrs." and of "Mrs." for "Mr." corrected.
Dubious repeated words, (e.g., "What took place by way of of
conversation?") retained.
Several unbalanced quotation marks not remedied.
Occasional periods that should be question marks not changed.
Occasional periods that should be commas, and commas that should be
periods, were changed only when they clearly had been misprinted (at
the end of a paragraph or following a speaker's name in small-caps at
the beginning of a line). Some commas and semi-colons were printed so
faintly that they appear to be periods or colons: some were found and
corrected, but some almost certainly remain.
The Index and illustrated Exhibits volumes of this series may not be
available at Project Gutenberg.
Asterisks in the Marina Oswald testimony have been reproduced as
originally printed.
Page vii: No Table of Contents entry for "Testimony of Mrs. Lee Harvey
Oswald (resumed)" beginning on page 588.
Page 47: "is a photostat is a photostat" was printed that way.
Page 51: "Will you tell us on what date you wrote or dictated Exhibit
711?" occurs twice. The second occurrence either was spoken by Mr.
Rankin or is a typesetting error.
Page 88 and elsewhere: "Mr. Specter" misprinted five times as "Mr.
Spector"; corrected here.
Page 107: "these tall building on either side" should be "buildings".
Page 138: "contains angels of sight" is a misprint for "angles".
Page 139: One occurrence of "Main Street" was misprinted as "Maine
Street"; corrected here.
Page 142: "Dr. Hume" is a misprint for "Dr. Humes".
Page 152: "The other hand, his left hand is on his lapel" was
misprinted as "left had"; corrected here.
Page 163: "Did the surveyor make that placement" misprinted as
"surveyer"; corrected here.