Mr. JENNER. Well, I'm just telling you that that's so.
Mrs. VOSHININ. Uh-huh. Thank you.
Mr. JENNER. And then your husband read an item in the local
paper--about what?
Mrs. VOSHININ. About them arriving here and from where did they come.
They came from Russia. You know that. They arrived here and----
Mr. JENNER. Was anything said in this article that arrested your
attention as to the circumstance of their coming, or his circumstance
or happenings in Russia?
Mrs. VOSHININ. I don't remember very well whatever was there in the
article. I didn't read it myself. But what I heard of them was from my
friends--first, from the Clarks. And they told me some circumstances.
They told me that he was living in Minsk, I believe. But they didn't
tell me anything about his political nature. They just said that she is
a very nice person, very young, and he is boorish.
Mr. JENNER. Boorish?
Mrs. VOSHININ. Boorish. Has bad manners and arrogant. I don't know the
right English word for that. Arrogant, maybe. And, so, we decided that
we don't want to associate with him at that time.
And the second time I heard from them--no, between that time--between
Clarks and De Mohrenschildts--I heard from them some other people in
the St. Nicholas Church. They mentioned them.
Mr. JENNER. You said, I heard from those people about Oswalds--about
two Oswalds. Right?
Mrs. VOSHININ. Yes; and they were usually positive about her and
somehow uneasy about him. They liked her. And the only thing that I
heard--the only people that I heard about the political inclinations of
Oswalds were De Mohrenschildts.