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. On the following day he went there, had a talk with them,
and he telephoned that he had already received the job.
Mr. RANKIN. Did he telephone to you or to Mrs. Paine about getting the
job?
Mrs. OSWALD. He telephoned me. But, of course, he thanked Ruth.
Mr. RANKIN. And when did he start on the job? Was there two or three
days before he got the job and started, or more than that?
Mrs. OSWALD. I think that he started on the day following being
accepted for the job. I think it was either on the 14th, 15th, or 16th
of October.
Mr. RANKIN. When he was staying at Mrs. Bledsoe's rooming house, did he
call you and give you the number there?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall where he was when he gave this fictitious
name?
Mrs. OSWALD. What do you mean where he was? From where he telephoned?
Mr. RANKIN. Yes, or the number that he gave you--that is the rooming
house that he was at when he used this fictitious name, and you told us
you called there.
Mrs. OSWALD. He lived at first in one place, and then he changed. It
was the last place where he had given a fictitious name. I don't know
what name he lived under in the first place, because I never telephoned
him.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know the name that he lived under in the second
place, when you did call him?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. You don't remember the fictitious name that he gave you?
Mrs. OSWALD. I read in the paper after everything happened, but at that
time I didn't know. He said that his last name was Lee. He didn't say
that. I read that in the paper.
Mr. RANKIN. Did that remind you, then, that that was the name they gave
you when you called and he answered the telephone?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, no one told me anything. I didn't know under what name
he lived there.
Mr. RANKIN. But you found out that he was not living under his own
name, is that what you meant before?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. After he got his job, did he return the next weekend to see
you?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you remember whether that time he returned was on Friday
or Saturday?
Mrs. OSWALD. It was on Friday, October 18. It was his birthday.
He stopped with Ruth. On Sunday I went to the hospital, and he stayed
overnight from Monday until Tuesday.
Mr. RANKIN. After your husband returned from Mexico, did you examine
the rifle in the garage at any time?
Mrs. OSWALD. I had never examined the rifle in the garage. It was
wrapped in a blanket and was lying on the floor.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you ever check to see whether the rifle was in the
blanket?
Mrs. OSWALD. I never checked to see that. There was only once that I
was interested in finding out what was in that blanket, and I saw that
it was a rifle.
Mr. RANKIN. When was that?
Mrs. OSWALD. About a week after I came from New Orleans.
Mr. RANKIN. And then you found that the rifle was in the blanket, did
you?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, I saw the wooden part of it, the wooden stock.
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