Mr. LIEBELER. That is all he said?
Mr. BOUHE. All I can remember.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he ever express any hostilities toward any individual
in the Government?
Mr. BOUHE. Never heard. And I must emphasize again that to talk
politics with a man like that, I would find totally hopeless and
useless. I never did it. But if anybody asked me, did he have any
hostility against anybody in the Government, which I didn't hear
myself, I would say Governor Connally.
Mr. LIEBELER. Why do you say that?
Mr. BOUHE. Because, where, I can't find the paper, but when he was in
Minsk, he wrote a letter. I have it some place, but I don't know where,
in the paper here.
Mr. LIEBELER. Let me ask you this, Mr. Bouhe. Did Oswald tell you that
he wrote a letter to Governor Connally?
Mr. BOUHE. No, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER. You learned that only after reading it in the paper?
Mr. BOUHE. Absolutely. No correspondence. We didn't discuss. I would
say my conversations with Oswald were at rock bottom minimum.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any feeling before the assassination that he
had any hostility toward any individual in the Government?
Mr. BOUHE. You mean as of the end of December, 1962?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes.
Mr. BOUHE. I did not hear him say anything like that. But in reading
this press news after the assassination, it clearly describes there the
letter which he wrote from Minsk to Governor Connally, who was at the
time Secretary of the Navy, and told him that he wants to correct the
injustice being done an ex-serviceman and citizen, and I almost see the
period "as soon as possible."
Connally passed it to the Marine Corps, according to the paper, which
did nothing about it. And then I think it was the Newsweek magazine
story which said, quoting Oswald, "Well, I will leave nothing undone to
correct this injustice." That is what I know from the press. To me, I
would say that it looks like a threat.
Mr. LIEBELER. But you don't have any knowledge of Oswald's displeasure
with Governor Connally?
Mr. BOUHE. Absolutely not.
Mr. LIEBELER. If he had any prior to the assassination?
Mr. BOUHE. No, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Marina understand English when you first met her?
Mr. BOUHE. She said no.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any reason to believe that she could
understand English?
Mr. BOUHE. Yes; I said, well, in sort of a joking way, "Well, my God,
you have an American husband. Didn't he teach you sweet nothings." Or
something like that.
"Oh, yes. I know I love you. Come kiss me quick, or something like
that."
But she did not speak English. And when we spoke English in front of
her, for instance, at Mrs. Gregory's, who is not a Russian----
Mr. LIEBELER. Mrs. Gregory?
Mr. BOUHE. I said, "Marina, I am sorry, but we have to say these few
words in English."
"Oh, well, that is all right, I will learn it sometime," or something
like that.
Mr. LIEBELER. But it did not appear to you that she understood English?
Mr. BOUHE. It did not appear to me; yes. And then on that subject I
have talked with you.
Mr. LIEBELER. You told us that you tried to teach her English?
Mr. BOUHE. Shortly after I saw that she is scared of him. He is a bad
provider, doesn't make friends, I thought there will be a calamity in
the family there sometime.
And Marina Oswald sort of, I think, appreciated when she saw what I
tried to do for her and her kid. I told Marina, "If you are a brave
girl, if I were you, I would prepare myself to stand on my own feet
before long. But before you start anything, you have to speak English."
"Well, how can I learn to speak English. Whenever I try to talk to Lee,
he always come back in Russian and doesn't want me to speak English to
him. This is positively so."