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. From November 3 to November 18, 1962? On Elsbeth Street?
No, I was there longer.
Mr. RANKIN. And do you recall the date that you went to Mrs. Hall's,
then?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, I don't remember. The day when he rented the apartment
was a Sunday. But where he lived before that, I don't know.
Mr. RANKIN. After you went to live with him in the apartment, around
November 3, how long did you stay before you went to live with your
friend?
Mrs. OSWALD. Approximately a month and a half. Perhaps a month. I am
not sure.
Mr. RANKIN. And when you were at Fort Worth, and he was living in
Dallas, did he call you from time to time on the telephone?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, he called me and he wrote letters and sometimes he
came for a visit.
Mr. RANKIN. And during that time, did he tell you where he was staying?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, he said that he had rented a room, but he did not
tell me his address.
I want to help you, but I don't know.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you think there was something in your husband's life in
America, his friends and so forth, that caused him to be different here?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, he had no friends who had any influence over him. He
himself had changed by comparison to the way he was in Russia. But what
the reason for that was, I don't know.
Am I giving sufficient answers to your questions?
Mr. RANKIN. You are doing fine.
Did your consideration of a divorce from your husband have anything to
do with his ideas and political opinions?
Mrs. OSWALD. No. The only reasons were personal ones with reference to
our personal relationship, not political reasons.
Mr. RANKIN. In your story you say that what was involved was some of
his crazy ideas and political opinions. Can you tell us what you meant
by that?
Mrs. OSWALD. This was after the case, after the matter of the divorce.
I knew that Lee had such political leanings.
Mr. RANKIN. With regard to your Russian friends, did you find the time
when they came less to see you and didn't show as much interest in you?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Can you give us about the time, just approximately when you
noticed that difference?
Mrs. OSWALD. Soon after arriving in Dallas. Mostly it was De
Mohrenschildt who visited us. He was the only one who remained our
friend. The others sort of removed themselves.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know why that was?
Mrs. OSWALD. Because they saw that Lee's attitude towards them was not
very proper, he was not very hospitable, and he was not glad to see
them. They felt that he did not like them.
Mr. RANKIN. Will you describe what you observed that caused you to
think this, or how your husband acted in regard to these friends?
Mrs. OSWALD. He told me that he did not like them, that he did not want
them to come to visit.
Mr. RANKIN. Did he show any signs of that attitude towards them?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, he was not very talkative when they came for a visit.
Sometimes he would even quarrel with them.
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