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
Mrs. OSWALD. No, he did not move me to Mrs. Hall. But sometimes he
came for a visit. Once or twice I think he came when we lived--to Mrs.
Hall's, and once when we lived on Mercedes Street.
Mr. RANKIN. What did he do when he came? Were those just visits?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, just visits. Just visits, with his wife and child.
Mr. RANKIN. When the De Mohrenschildts came to the house and you showed
them the rifle, did you say anything about it?
Mrs. OSWALD. Perhaps I did say something to him, but I don't remember.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you say anything like "Look what my crazy one has done?
Bought a rifle" or something of that kind?
Mrs. OSWALD. This sounds like something I might say. Perhaps I did.
Mr. RANKIN. In the period of October 1962, you did spend some time with
Mrs. Hall, did you not, in her home?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Will you tell us about how that happened?
Mrs. OSWALD. When Lee found work in Dallas, Elena Hall proposed that
I stay with her for some time, because she was alone, and I would be
company.
Mr. RANKIN. Did that have anything to do with any quarrels with your
husband?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. During that period of October of 1962, when your husband
went to Dallas to get work, do you know where he lived?
Mrs. OSWALD. I know that for--at first, for some time he stayed at
the YMcA, but later he rented an apartment, but I don't know at what
address. Because in the letters which he wrote me, the return address
was a post office box.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know whether he stayed during that period part of
the time with Gary Taylor?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Where did you live while your husband was looking for work
and staying at the YMcA and at this apartment that you referred to?
Mrs. OSWALD. When he stayed at the YMcA he had already found work, and
I was in Fort Worth.
Mr. RANKIN. And where in Fort Worth were you staying then?
Mrs. OSWALD. With Mrs. Hall.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you notice a change, psychologically, in your husband
during this period in the United States?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. When did you first notice that change?
Mrs. OSWALD. At--at Elsbeth Street, in Dallas. After the visit of the
FBI, in Fort Worth. He was for some time nervous and irritable.
Mr. RANKIN. Did he seem to have two different personalities then?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Would you describe to the Commission what he did to cause
you to think that he was changing?
Mrs. OSWALD. Generally he was--usually he was quite as he always was.
He used to help me. And he was a good family man. Sometimes, apparently
without reason, at least I did not know reasons, if any existed, he
became quite a stranger. At such times it was impossible to ask him
anything. He simply kept to himself. He was irritated by trifles.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall any of the trifles that irritated him, so as
to help us to know the picture?
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