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. She has a mania--only money, money, money.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you understand that she was quarreling with Ruth Paine
about something concerning the interview?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. It appeared to be a quarrel, but what they quarreled
about, I don't know.
Mr. RANKIN. And after the quarrel, did you leave there?
Mrs. OSWALD. I went to my room. But then I showed Lee's mother the
photograph, where he is photographed with a rifle, and told her he
had shot at Walker and it appeared he might have been shooting at the
President. She said that I should hide that photograph and not show it
to anyone.
On the next day I destroyed one photograph which I had. I think I had
two small ones. When we were in the hotel I burned it.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you say anything to her about the destruction of the
photographs when she suggested that?
Mrs. OSWALD. She saw it, while I was destroying them.
Mr. RANKIN. After the assassination, did the police and FBI and the
Secret Service ask you many questions?
Mrs. OSWALD. In the police station there was a routine regular
questioning, as always happens. And then after I was with the agents
of the Secret Service and the FBI, they asked me many questions, of
course--many questions. Sometimes the FBI agents asked me questions
which had no bearing or relationship, and if I didn't want to answer
they told me that if I wanted to live in this country, I would have to
help in this matter, even though they were often irrelevant. That is
the FBI.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know who said that to you?
Mrs. OSWALD. Mr. Heitman and Bogoslav, who was an interpreter for the
FBI.
Mr. RANKIN. You understand that you do not have to tell this Commission
in order to stay in this country, don't you, now?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. You are not under any compulsion to tell the Commission
here in order to be able to stay in the country.
Mrs. OSWALD. I understand that.
Mr. RANKIN. And you have come here because you want to tell us what you
could about this matter, is that right?
Mrs. OSWALD. This is my voluntary wish, and no one forced me to do this.
Mr. RANKIN. Did these various people from the police and the Secret
Service and the FBI treat you courteously when they asked you about the
matters that they did, concerning the assassination and things leading
up to it?
Mrs. OSWALD. I have a very good opinion about the Secret Service, and
the people in the police department treated me very well. But the FBI
agents were somehow polite and gruff. Sometimes they would mask a gruff
question in a polite form.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you see anyone from the Immigration Service during this
period of time?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know who that was?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't remember the name. I think he is the chairman of
that office. At least he was a representative of that office.
Mr. RANKIN. By "that office" you mean the one at Dallas?
Mrs. OSWALD. I was told that he had especially come from New York, it
seems to me.
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