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
In fact, I have Lee's dictionary which he gave me. He gave me his
Russian dictionary and he told me, "I don't need it any more," and
therefore he gave me the dictionary.
Mr. LIEBELER. You have that at the present time?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where is that, in Norman?
Mr. GREGORY. In Norman; yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. I wonder if you would make that available to us?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes; I looked through it to see if there is any writing
and there is no writing. There is something, he wrote a name up there
or something.
Mr. LIEBELER. If you would make it available to us, we would appreciate
it. We will have somebody from the Secret Service or FBI contact you
in Norman and obtain it, or if you want to mail it to us at the
Commission. How do you want to handle it?
Mr. GREGORY. Either way.
Mr. LIEBELER. We will have somebody from the Secret Service.
Mr. GREGORY. I don't know of any writing.
Mr. LIEBELER. We will make arrangements for someone to pick it up and
we will eventually return it to you.
Mr. GREGORY. Yes; okay. I have a card also which he sent me, if you
are interested, which was written to inform me a change of address to
Dallas, which was dated on November 1, approximately, 1962. Those are
the only two things I have that belonged to him or were from him.
Mr. LIEBELER. We would like the card too, if you would make that
available.
Mr. GREGORY. All right.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Oswald mention anything to you about hunting trips
that he went on while he was in the Soviet Union?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he mention any access that he might have had to
firearms?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you form any opinion, or did Marina tell you anything
that would indicate the reason why Marina seemed to take a special
interest in Oswald, or seemed to be a special case, I think you used
that terminology?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes. I could tell you--this is a personal opinion--but
evidently she was kind of a rebel or nonconformist herself, and she met
quite a bit of opposition because she did see Lee. And I am not sure,
but I believe her family gave her quite a bit of trouble about that,
too.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you remember any specific situation that she may have
said about that?
Mr. GREGORY. All I know is that when she returned--she said she had
written her relatives--she had an uncle and aunt and sister, and they
refused to answer, and she never received an answer from them.
Mr. LIEBELER. Now, did you infer from that that they gave her
difficulty in connection with her marriage to Lee Oswald, or that they
disapproved her decision to come to the United States?
Mr. GREGORY. I assume it was both. It is an assumption on my part.
Mr. LIEBELER. Marina never indicated specifically any difficulty that
she had with her relatives?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you form any opinion, or did Marina ever indicate to
you that possibly she married Oswald to get out of the Soviet Union?
Mr. GREGORY. No; I don't believe so.
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