Mr. RANKIN. What did he say to you? Mrs. OSWALD. That if I was not guilty of anything, if I had not committed any crime against this Government, then I had every right to live in this country. This was a type of introduction before the questioning by the FBI. He even said that it would be better for me if I were to help them. Mr. RANKIN. Did he explain to you what he meant by being better for you? Mrs. OSWALD. In the sense that I would have more rights in this country. I understood it that way. Mr. RANKIN. Did you understand that you were being threatened with deportation if you didn't answer these questions? Mrs. OSWALD. No, I did not understand it that way. You see, it was presented in such a delicate form, but there was a clear implication that it would be better if I were to help. Mr. RANKIN. Did you---- Mrs. OSWALD. This was only felt. It wasn't said in actual words. Mr. RANKIN. Did you feel that it was a threat? Mrs. OSWALD. This was not quite a threat--it was not a threat. But it was their great desire that I be in contact, in touch with the FBI. I sensed that. Mr. RANKIN. But you did not consider it to be a threat to you? Mrs. OSWALD. No. Mr. RANKIN. Did anyone indicate that it would affect your ability to work in this country if you cooperated? Mrs. OSWALD. Excuse me. No. Mr. RANKIN. Is there anything else about your treatment by law enforcement officials during this period that you would like to tell the Commission about? Mrs. OSWALD. I think that the FBI agents knew that I was afraid that after everything that had happened I could not remain to live in this country, and they somewhat exploited that for their own purposes, in a very polite form, so that you could not say anything after that. They cannot be accused of anything. They approached it in a very clever, contrived way. Mr. RANKIN. Was there anyone else of the law enforcement officials that you felt treated you in that manner? Mrs. OSWALD. No. As for the rest, I was quite content. Everyone was very attentive towards me. Mr. RANKIN. Where were you on the morning of November 24th when your husband was killed? Mrs. OSWALD. The night from the 23d to the 24th I spent at a hotel in Dallas, together with the mother. She wanted to make sure that the Life reporters who had taken this room would pay for it, as they had promised. But they disappeared. Then she telephoned Robert, it seems to me, and Gregory--no, Mr. Gregory. And I know that he came with Robert, and Robert paid for the room. And, after that, after we left the hotel, we met with the Secret Service agents. I wanted to see Lee, and we were supposed to go to the police station to see him. Mr. RANKIN. That was on November 24th, on Sunday? Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. Mr. RANKIN. And then what happened? Mrs. OSWALD. I don't remember whether we went to Ruth to take my things or perhaps--in general, I remember that en route, in the car, Mike Howard or Charley Kunkel said that Lee had been shot today.