Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. RANKIN. And the pants, Exhibit 157?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. But I am not sure. This is as much as I can remember.
Mr. RANKIN. Thank you.
Mr. THORNE. I identify this photograph, which is marked Exhibit 164
as being a true photograph of the shirt displayed to Mrs. Oswald, and
recognized by her as being a shirt that she gave to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mr. RANKIN. I offer all of the Exhibits, Nos. 146 to 164, inclusive.
The CHAIRMAN. They may be admitted.
(The articles referred to were marked Commission Exhibit Nos. 146 to
164, inclusive, and received in evidence.)
Mr. RANKIN. Mrs. Oswald, do you remember any information or documents
under your control or in your possession which would relate to or shed
any light on the matters we have been examining which you have not
presented here?
Mrs. OSWALD. I have nothing else. Everything has been taken from me.
Mr. RANKIN. Some of the Commissioners have a question or two, or a few
questions. If you will permit them, they would like to address them to
you.
Representative BOGGS. Mrs. Oswald, this question has already been asked
you, but I would like to ask it again.
I gather that you have reached the conclusion in your own mind that
your husband killed President Kennedy.
Mrs. OSWALD. Regretfully, yes.
Representative BOGGS. During the weeks and months prior to the
assassination--and I think this question has also been asked--did you
ever at any time hear your late husband express any hostility towards
President Kennedy?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Representative BOGGS. What motive would you ascribe to your husband in
killing President Kennedy?
Mrs. OSWALD. As I saw the documents that were being read to me, I came
to the conclusion that he wanted in any--by any means, good or bad, to
get into history. But now that I have heard a part of the translation
of some of the documents, I think that there was some political
foundation to it, a foundation of which I am not aware.
Representative BOGGS. By that, do you mean that your husband acted in
concert with someone else?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, only alone.
Representative BOGGS. You are convinced that his action was his action
alone, that he was influenced by no one else?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, I am convinced.
Representative BOGGS. Did you consider your husband a Communist?
Mrs. OSWALD. He told me when we were in New Orleans that he was a
Communist, but I didn't believe him, because I said, "What kind of a
Communist are you if you don't like the Communists in Russia?"
Representative BOGGS. Did he like the Communists in the United States?
Mrs. OSWALD. He considered them to be on a higher level and more
conscious than the Communists in Russia.
Representative BOGGS. Did you consider your husband a normal man in the
usual sense of the term?
Mrs. OSWALD. He was always a normal man, but where it concerned his
ideas, and he did not introduce me to his ideas, I did not consider him
normal.
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