Mr. RANKIN. Do you know of anything that you could tell the Commission in regard to these matters in this letter, Exhibit 15, that would shed more light on what your husband meant or what he was trying to do, that you have not already told us? Mrs. OSWALD. Everything that I could tell you with reference to this letter I have told you. The CHAIRMAN. I think we will take a short recess now, about 10 minutes. Mrs. OSWALD. I would like to help you, but I simply don't know, I cannot. (Brief recess) The CHAIRMAN. The Commission will be in order. Mr. Rankin, you may proceed. Mr. RANKIN. Mrs. Oswald, I will hand you again Exhibit 14 and the translation from the Russian and call your attention to the urgency of your request there. I ask you, was that your idea to press for help from the Embassy in regard to the visa, or your husband's? Mrs. OSWALD. Of course my husband. Mr. RANKIN. At the time of Exhibit 14, then, you were not anxious to return to Russia? Mrs. OSWALD. I never wanted to return but Lee insisted and there is nothing else I could do. But sometimes when I wrote these letters, I felt very lonely--since my husband didn't want me, I felt perhaps this would be the best way. Mr. RANKIN. Do you know the Spanish language? Mrs. OSWALD. Perhaps five words. Mr. RANKIN. Have you given it any study? Mrs. OSWALD. No. I have a Spanish textbook of the Spanish language and I had intended to study even while I was still in Russia, but I never did. Mr. RANKIN. Did your husband ever study Spanish that you know of? Mrs. OSWALD. He didn't study it, but before his trip to Mexico he would sit down with the textbook and look at it. Mr. RANKIN. I hand you Exhibit 17 and ask you if you recall having seen that before. Mrs. OSWALD. May I take it out? Mr. RANKIN. Yes. Mrs. OSWALD. June seems to have played with it. This was Lee's study of Spanish perhaps because this was all photographed, it is soiled. Here I helped Lee. I wrote some Spanish words. Mr. RANKIN. Does that Exhibit 17 have any of your husband's handwriting on it? Mrs. OSWALD. Some of it is my handwriting and some of it is Lee's handwriting. Mr. RANKIN. Can you tell us when he was trying to study Spanish? Was it at any time with regard to the time when he planned to go to Cuba? Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. Mr. RANKIN. About when did he start? Mrs. OSWALD. In August, in New Orleans, 1963. Mr. RANKIN. And whatever he did in this notebook, Exhibit 17, he did at that time or thereafter? Mrs. OSWALD. No, this was in September. Mr. RANKIN. Did he do whatever writing he did in connection with the study of the Spanish language in Exhibit 17 at New Orleans in August or after that date? Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. Do you want to know whether this was earlier than August or later? Mr. RANKIN. Yes. Mrs. OSWALD. No, not earlier. This was in September, not in August. Mr. RANKIN. And did he do anything in the writing of what is in Exhibit 17 in the study of the Spanish language at Dallas, that you know of?