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. And when you met with him on the 23d, was it at your
request or his?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know whether he requested it, but I know that I
wanted to see him.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you request the right to see your husband on the 22d,
after his arrest?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. And what answer were you given at that time?
Mrs. OSWALD. I was not permitted to.
Mr. RANKIN. Who gave you that answer?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know. The police.
Mr. RANKIN. You don't know what officer of the police?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Where did you spend the evening on the night of the
assassination?
Mrs. OSWALD. On the day of the assassination, on the 22d, after
returning from questioning by the police, I spent the night with Mrs.
Paine, together with Lee's mother.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you receive any threats from anyone at this time?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Did any law enforcement agency offer you protection at that
time?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. When you saw your husband on November 23d, the day after
the assassination, did you have a conversation with him?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. And where did this occur?
Mrs. OSWALD. In the police department.
Mr. RANKIN. Were just the two of you together at that time?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, the mother was there together with me.
Mr. RANKIN. At that time what did you say to him and what did he say to
you?
Mrs. OSWALD. You probably know better than I do what I told him.
Mr. RANKIN. Well, I need your best recollection, if you can give it to
us, Mrs. Oswald.
Mrs. OSWALD. Of course he tried to console me that I should not worry,
that everything would turn out well. He asked about how the children
were. He spoke of some friends who supposedly would help him. I don't
know who he had in mind. That he had written to someone in New York
before that. I was so upset that of course I didn't understand anything
of that. It was simply talk.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you say anything to him then?
Mrs. OSWALD. I told him that the police had been there and that a
search had been conducted, that they had asked me whether we had a
rifle, and I had answered yes.
And he said that if there would be a trial, and that if I am questioned
it would be my right to answer or to refuse to answer.
Mr. GOPADZE. She asked me if she talked about that thing, the first
evening when I talked to her with the FBI agents, she asked me if she
didn't have to tell me if she didn't want to. And warning her of her
constitutional rights, telling her she didn't have to tell me anything
she didn't want to--at that time, she told me she knew about that, that
she didn't have to tell me if she didn't want to.
Mrs. OSWALD. And he then asked me, "Who told you you had that right?"
And then I understood that he knew about it.
Mr. GOPADZE. At that time I did not know.
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