Mrs. OSWALD. I will tell you about this--please, gentlemen, I will have to break if you don't. This is a very, very serious life that I have gone through. I didn't answer Lee. This is the way I do the children. The CHAIRMAN. We will take a 10 minute recess now. (Brief recess.) The CHAIRMAN. The Commission will be in order. Mr. Rankin, you may continue. Mrs. OSWALD. Mr. Rankin, you mentioned about the $1,600. Now. I don't know if you know for a fact that Lee had $1,600. It was publicized in the paper that he had $1,600, which is right here in 1959. Mr. RANKIN. Did he tell you anything about that at the time? Mrs. OSWALD. No, sir, he gave me $100. And he and his brother Robert had arrived. And I am assuming it was over me because Robert did not help me. And I have made that public in the Red Cross papers, that he had a family of their own, that they probably thought their duty was to their family. I had no help from the other two boys. And he gave me $100, and I stayed in this little place a few weeks, and then I got the job for $5 a week. And that is Lee's defection. So here is my only contact with Lee in Russia, at the Metropole Hotel--this is dated December 18, 1959. Now, I have settled with the insurance company, and I have a little money. So I sent a check to Lee for $20. And this is his little note. The only contact I had with Lee from the time of his immediate defection until the State Department 2 years later informed me of my son's address. And this is his little note that he needs money. So I would say that Lee didn't have $1,600, according to this proof. Now, we are speculating, as you will admit, because you thought the letter to the school was from me. And you will have to admit that I have given you new evidence. And so maybe Lee didn't have $1,600, because he is asking for money there. That is when he is right in Moscow. Mr. RANKIN. Of course, that is quite a while later. Mrs. OSWALD. No, sir. He defected the end of November. This is December 1959. Mr. RANKIN. But he---- Mrs. OSWALD. He had to make passage, and have some money. I don't know if it took $1,600. I do not know, sir. But I am saying 5 weeks later he needs money. We haven't gotten to this file yet. I will quote from a newspaper, the Star Telegram, 1959, his defection, by Mrs. Aline Mosby, who interviewed Lee in Moscow. It says here, "I saw my mother always as a worker, always with less than we could use, he said. He insisted his childhood was happy despite his poverty." We had a very happy family. He insisted--this is the story in 1959. Lee had a normal childhood.