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. GREGORY. I met Lee and Marina Oswald in the summer of 1962. I would
suppose in the middle of June. I met them both at Lee's brother's house
in the western part of Fort Worth. Lee Oswald had become acquainted
with my father a week or two weeks earlier. I think he came to him with
the desire to get some kind of paper showing his ability in the Russian
language; I think he wanted to get a job as interpreter or something;
some kind of work which would have something to do with his ability to
use Russian.
I think he came in my father's office twice. I am not sure, because
I wasn't there, and gave him the address of his brother where he was
staying at the time.
And I don't know, he may have said, "Come see us." And my father and
I were both interested in meeting his wife who was Russian, we heard.
So, I believe my father found out their address and we went out for a
visit, purely social visit. That was, as I say, probably in the middle
of June, 1962, and that was the first time I ever met either Lee Oswald
or Marina Oswald.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you know that at some time, in about June of 1962,
your father invited the Oswalds to come to your house?
Mr. GREGORY. Oh, yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Was that before or after the time that you mentioned?
Mr. GREGORY. That was at the end of the summer. They had actually been
at our house twice. One time about a month before this dinner at our
house. I just drove by with them for a few minutes. That was the first
time they had ever been to our house. And the second time was at this
dinner which you mentioned.
Mr. LIEBELER. When was the dinner?
Mr. GREGORY. I can't give you the date. It was near the end of the
summer, I imagine, in August, 1962.
Mr. LIEBELER. So the first time, then, that you met Oswald was at his
brother's place in Fort Worth?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Who was present at that first meeting?
Mr. GREGORY. His brother's name, I think, was Bob Oswald. Bob Oswald's
wife and their children, I think they had two or three young kids, Lee,
and Marina, and June Lee, their baby, those were the only people there.
Mr. LIEBELER. Plus your father and yourself?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Tell us, to the best of your recollection, what the
conversation was at that time?
Mr. GREGORY. I remember they brought out pictures which they had taken
in the Soviet Union and showed us where they had lived in Minsk, and I
believe they might have had pictures of Leningrad. I am not sure. And
then this evening there was something said about their trip back, how
they passed through Poland and Germany. And then my father wanted to
know how, what Marina thought of Russia, if it had changed after all
the years. And that was the general tone of the conversation.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you remember any details of the conversation about
the Oswalds' life in Russia?
Mr. GREGORY. At this time I did not. Later on we had quite a bit of
discussion about it, but not this time.
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