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. And you never formed that opinion?
Mr. GREGORY. I never formed that opinion. She seemed quite interested
and quite enthusiastic about a new life in America, and she seemed to
me that she wanted to take part in it, but she got over here and it
was, she was just in one room and never got out, and she always kept
saying, "When I learn English, it will be different."
She always expressed a desire to learn English, and, "Do you think I
will ever be able to learn it?" And I said, "Yes." And she seemed quite
enthusiastic about America.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you think it was strange that she seemed interested
to learn English but apparently made no attempt to learn it? Did you
discuss that with her at all?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes; I would always ask her, "What have you learned," and
she would say "Nothing." And I said, "Well--" we really never went into
it completely why she hadn't. I just assumed that either she didn't
want to or else she really didn't have the opportunity to get out, or I
can't answer specifically.
Mr. LIEBELER. She never indicated a desire to you that you should help
her learn English in connection with her attempt to teach you Russian
or to improve your Russian?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever discuss with Oswald the reason, or with
Marina, for that matter, the reason why Oswald decided to leave the
Soviet Union and return to the United States?
Mr. GREGORY. Well, let's see, I have brought up why he was
dissatisfied. Well, of course, he didn't get enough food. That seemed
to be one of his major things.
And evidently he lived fairly poorly over there. Then I am sure he
went over there thinking this would be the heaven on earth, the
workers' paradise, and he quickly found out that wasn't so. This
might be a personal judgment on my part, but I think he felt that
they are making a mess of things over there. Maybe he did believe
in communistic principles which I don't believe he understood if he
believed in them. But he felt that the present administration like the
party boys and the people in power were just making a mess of things,
that they didn't know what they were doing. He felt like, he said they
were opportunistic. No; he never came out and said, "I left because
so-and-so and so-and-so."
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he ever indicate a desire to have his children raised
in the United States?
Mr. GREGORY. I can't remember if he did.
Mr. LIEBELER. You told us a moment ago that Oswald at one point told
you how he had left the Soviet Union and gone through Poland and East
Germany. I would like you to tell us everything you can remember about
that.
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