Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. TAYLOR. She, I don't believe, indicated either thing to me. I
don't--I can't honestly say that she indicated where Lee was at the
time. She may have said he was at work or not at work.
Mr. JENNER. You just don't have enough recollection to know whether she
said he was employed and working and had work at that time?
Mr. TAYLOR. Uh--the general impression is that he was not working, but
it is not distinct enough to make a flat statement upon.
Mr. JENNER. Is that the last time you ever saw Marina?
Mr. TAYLOR. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. When was the last time you ever saw Lee?
Mr. TAYLOR. The previous occasion I have mentioned where I went to
visit them in the evening to return the manuscript. That was the last
time I saw Lee.
Mr. JENNER. That was prior to November 15, 1962?
Mr. TAYLOR. Yes; I don't know why he wanted that manuscript at that
time. I know that he wanted it very badly.
Mr. JENNER. He called you for it?
Mr. TAYLOR. Uh--yes, he did. On two occasions. And, on the second one,
I think I got in the car and took it to him.
Mr. JENNER. Uh-huh. He called you on the telephone?
Mr. TAYLOR. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, before I go to the De Mohrenschildts, I'd like you
now to give me--now that we've had this discussion between us--your
impressions of the Oswalds individually.
(Off-the-record discussion followed.)
Mr. TAYLOR. Uh--my impression, first, of Lee would be that--uh--he was,
first, rather confused, particularly, politically. He wanted to be
well-informed and an idealist. He considered himself well-informed. I
don't think he was even very knowledgeable on the subject.
In our conversations, when I would take exception to something he had
said and argue a point with him, why, superficially, he could make a
statement or support an idea that is commonly regarded in some areas
as being true--such as, well, the Republican and Democratic Parties
have different ideas on how things should be done just as democracy and
communism have.
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mr. TAYLOR. And he could present Communist ideas to a point that it was
very superficial--and when you started digging down in to the meat of
the subject, why, Lee was through.
He seemed to have perhaps read quite a bit of political philosophy, but
when it came to really understanding it, he couldn't present a very
good case for it.
Mr. JENNER. Was he emotional in that respect?
Mr. TAYLOR. He would--uh--not any more so than anyone else you would
get into a political discussion with. This seems to be a fairly
emotional subject on everyone's part.
Mr. JENNER. You didn't regard him as a vicious type--as a man who would
think in terms of inflicting bodily harm if frustrated?
Mr. TAYLOR. Uh--well, I thought of him as a man who--uh--would kick
a dog or beat his wife, but--uh--I was never afraid of him because I
never felt like that he would attack anything his equal.
Mr. JENNER. You were a bigger man than he, weren't you?
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