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. No. It may have just arrived or he was explaining
something about how you address a letter differently. How you put where
it is going at the top, and the return at the bottom. He was showing me
something, and as I recall, I read the letter, but it was just personal
matters. I can't even remember the contents.
Mr. LIEBELER. You have no recollection of the contents of the letter at
this point?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Was there anything in it, as far as you can remember,
that would indicate that it was secretive or anything of that sort?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. On this question of whether Oswald thought that possibly
he was treated less favorably than other Soviet citizens, there has
been some testimony that he perhaps felt disenchanted with the Soviet
Union because he was not given the kind of job that he expected to be
given when he got there.
Mr. GREGORY. Yes; I remember something now. He expected--I think he and
I got along well because he considered me fairly smart because I was
interested in the Soviet matters, and therefore our discussions were
quite a bit about academic matters, and he pretended, or possibly was,
fairly well educated. He seemed to read quite a bit. But he expected to
go over there and get into a Russian university. He made an application
for the Peace University or one of these universities for the foreign
students, I think, and he was quite disenchanted when he was not
accepted into this. That was his first idea, I believe, to go over
there and go to school. Then after he was not accepted, they sent him
somewhere to work in a little factory, and I guess he didn't quite like
this.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you that one of the reasons he had gone to
Russia was to enter college or university there?
Mr. GREGORY. I don't know as that was one of his reasons for going, but
that seemed to me, according to him, the first thing he did was make
this application.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he ever mention to you anything about an application
to the Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland? Did he indicate to you
in any other way that he was dissatisfied with the treatment he had
received by Russian authorities?
Mr. GREGORY. Well, there was. He said when he wanted to return, it was
touch and go whether Marina would get to come back with him, and he
felt that she had been discriminated against, because he told about
meetings which they had held in the factory or place where Marina
worked denouncing her as a traitor, et cetera, because she wanted to
leave the country. And I think this went on for weeks and weeks where
they put pressure on her not to go with him, and he expressed amazement
for the fact that they did allow her to return with him.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember any more of the details about what he
said about that?
Mr. GREGORY. About these meetings?
Mr. LIEBELER. About the meetings and his expression of amazement as to
why they did let Marina come back.
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