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. LIEBELER. Now, taking all of your experiences with the Oswalds
together and all of the conversations that you had with them, would
you relate to us what they told you, and differentiate between Lee or
Marina, as best you can, about the whole Russian episode, why Oswald
went to Russia; what he did when he was there; how he met Marina; why
he decided to come back; and how he came back, and so on?
Mr. GREGORY. On one of the questions I can't answer very well because I
never discussed with him why he went. I personally never asked him.
At this dinner, I am sure you have already heard an account of it,
he explained that he went because he was disgusted with the American
system or the capitalist system where everything is run by money and
the desire to get money. That seemed to be his only objection, that I
ever heard, and his only reason as to why he left.
Let's see, what was the other. Oh, according to Lee, then also he was
very disgusted with the Marines, how the Marines had treated him. I
don't know if you could classify that as a reason for him leaving and
going to the Soviet Union. Maybe it was.
Mr. LIEBELER. What did he tell you about that?
Mr. GREGORY. Oh, I just asked him--I knew he had been in the
Marines--what he thought of it. He would never speak of it. He was
sort of--look disgusted and say, "I don't want to talk about it," or
something like that. Those are the only two reasons which I heard, and
the second one would be one which I am not sure of.
Mr. LIEBELER. He never discussed with you beyond the extent you have
indicated, his experience in the Marine Corps?
Mr. GREGORY. No; he was disgusted with it.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he ever indicate anything about his discharge from
the Marines?
Mr. GREGORY. No; he never did. I think a lot of things which he told
me were like the way he talked, that he graduated from high school,
from the same high school that I had gone to, and I read in the papers
that he was only there a month or so. So, possibly a lot of information
which he had given me would not be right, but he never did speak of a
discharge.
Mr. LIEBELER. Whether it would be right or not, it is important that
you tell us what he told you. You indicate now that he did tell you
that he graduated from Arlington Heights High School, is that correct?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you believed that until after the assassination and
you read in the newspaper that he had not, in fact, graduated from
Arlington?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes, sir.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you what kind of job he had in the Soviet
Union?
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