I consulted with my attorney, whether I should bring this up. This is not a secret. The thing is that I have written a letter, even though I have not mailed it yet, to the attorney--to the prosecuting attorney who will prosecute Jack Ruby. I wrote in that letter that even--that if Jack Ruby killed my husband, and I felt that I have a right as the widow of the man he killed to say that, that if he killed him he should be punished for it. But that in accordance with the laws here, the capital punishment, the death penalty is imposed for such a crime, and that I do not want him to be subjected to that kind of a penalty. I do not want another human life to be taken. And I don't want it to be believed because of this letter that I had been acquainted with Ruby, and that I wanted to protect him. It is simply that it is pity to--I feel sorry for another human life. Because this will not return--bring back to life Kennedy or the others who were killed. But they have their laws, and, of course, I do not have the right to change them. That is only my opinion, and perhaps they will pay some attention to it. That is all. Mr. RANKIN. Had you ever been in the Carousel Nightclub? Mrs. OSWALD. I have never been in nightclubs. Mr. RANKIN. Did you know where it was located before your husband was killed by Jack Ruby? Mrs. OSWALD. No, I don't know it now either. Mr. RANKIN. Can you tell us whether your husband was right handed or left handed? Mrs. OSWALD. No, he was right handed. His brother writes with his left hand and so does--his brother and mother both write with their left hand. And since I mentioned Jack Ruby, the mother and Robert want Ruby to be subjected to a death penalty. And in that we differ. Mr. RANKIN. Have they told you the reason why they wanted the death penalty imposed? Mrs. OSWALD. In their view, a killing has to be repaid by a killing. In my opinion, it is not so. Mr. RANKIN. Is there anything more about the assassination of President Kennedy that you know that you have not told the Commission? Mrs. OSWALD. No, I don't know anything. Mr. RANKIN. Is there anything that your husband ever told you about proposing to assassinate President Kennedy that you haven't told the Commission? Mrs. OSWALD. No, I don't know that. Mr. RANKIN. Now, Mrs. Oswald, we will turn to some period in Russia, and ask you about that for a little while. Can you tell us the time and place of your birth? Mrs. OSWALD. I was born on July 17, 1941, in Severo Dvinsk, in the Arkhangelskaya Region. Mr. RANKIN. Who were your parents? Mrs. OSWALD. Names? Mr. RANKIN. Yes, please. Mrs. OSWALD. My mother was Clogia Vasilyevna Proosakova. She was a laboratory assistant. Mr. RANKIN. And your father? Mrs. OSWALD. And I had a stepfather. I had no father. I never knew him. Mr. RANKIN. Who did you live with as a child? Mrs. OSWALD. With my stepfather, with my mother, and sometimes with my grandmother--grandmother on my mother's side.