Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Upon his arrival in 1962, Oswald did not know any members of the
relatively small and loosely knit Russian-speaking community.[C6-310]
Shortly after his arrival Oswald obtained the name of two
Russian-speaking persons in Fort Worth from the office of the Texas
Employment Commission in that city.[C6-311] Attempts to arrange a
prompt visit with one of them failed.[C6-312] The second person,
Peter Paul Gregory, was a consulting petroleum engineer and part-time
Russian-language instructor at the Fort Worth Public Library. Oswald
contacted him in order to obtain a letter certifying to his proficiency
in Russian and Marina Oswald later tutored his son in the Russian
language.[C6-313] Gregory introduced the Oswalds to George Bouhe and
Anna Meller, both of whom lived in Dallas and became interested in
the welfare of Marina Oswald and her child.[C6-314] Through them,
other members of the Russian community became acquainted with the
Oswalds.[C6-315]
The Oswalds met some 30 persons in the Russian-speaking community,
of whom 25 testified before the Commission or its staff; others
were interviewed on behalf of the Commission.[C6-316] This range of
testimony has disclosed that the relationship between Lee Harvey Oswald
and the Russian-speaking community was short lived and generally quite
strained.[C6-317] During October and November of 1962 Marina Oswald
lived at the homes of some of the members of the Russian-speaking
community.[C6-318] She stayed first with Elena Hall while Oswald
was looking for work in Dallas.[C6-319] In early November, Marina
Oswald and the baby joined Oswald in Dallas, but soon thereafter, she
spent approximately 2 weeks with different Russian-speaking friends
during another separation.[C6-320] Oswald openly resented the help
Marina’s “Russian friends” gave to him and his wife and the efforts
of some of them to induce Marina to leave him.[C6-321] George Bouhe
attempted to dissuade Marina from returning to her husband in November
1962, and when she rejoined him, Bouhe became displeased with her as
well.[C6-322] Relations between the Oswalds and the members of the
Russian community had practically ceased by the end of 1962. Katherine
Ford, one of the members of the group, summed up the situation as it
existed at the end of January 1963: “So it was rather, sort of, Marina
and her husband were dropped at that time, nobody actually wanted to
help. * * *”[C6-323]
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