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
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall your husband saying at any time after he saw
the film about the Cuban assassination that this was the old-fashioned
way of assassination?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall anything being said by your husband at any
time about Governor Connally?
Mrs. OSWALD. Well, while we were still in Russia, and Connally at that
time was Secretary of the Navy, Lee wrote him a letter in which he
asked Connally to help him obtain a good character reference because
at the end of his Army service he had a good characteristic--honorable
discharge--but that it had been changed after it became known he had
gone to Russia.
Mr. RANKIN. Had it been changed to undesirable discharge, as you
understand it?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. Then we received a letter from Connally in which he
said that he had turned the matter over to the responsible authorities.
That was all in Russia.
But here it seems he had written again to that organization with
a request to review. But he said from time to time that these are
bureaucrats, and he was dissatisfied.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know when he wrote again?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Was that letter written from New Orleans?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know. I only know about the fact, but when and
how, I don't know.
Mr. RANKIN. Did your husband say anything to you to indicate he had a
dislike for Governor Connally?
Mrs. OSWALD. Here he didn't say anything.
But while we were in Russia he spoke well of him. It seems to me that
Connally was running for Governor and Lee said that when he would
return to the United States he would vote for him.
Mr. RANKIN. That is all that you remember that he said about Governor
Connally then?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. With regard to the Walker incident, you said that your
husband seemed disturbed for several weeks. Did you notice anything of
that kind with regard to the day prior to the assassination?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. On November 22, the day of the assassination, you said your
husband got up and got his breakfast. Did you get up at all before he
left?
Mrs. OSWALD. No. I woke up before him, and I then went to the kitchen
to see whether he had had breakfast or not--whether he had already left
for work. But the coffee pot was cold and Lee was not there.
And when I met Ruth that morning, I asked her whether Lee had had
coffee or not, and she said probably, perhaps he had made himself some
instant coffee.
But probably he hadn't had any breakfast that morning.
Mr. RANKIN. Then did he say anything to you that morning at all, or did
he get up and go without speaking to you?
Mrs. OSWALD. He told me to take as much money as I needed and to buy
everything, and said goodbye, and that is all.
After the police had already come, I noticed that Lee had left his
wedding ring.
Mr. RANKIN. You didn't observe that that morning when your husband had
left, did you?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know approximately what time your husband left that
morning?
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