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. Never mentioned it at all?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. You told us before that you held a bachelor degree from
Oklahoma University and that you majored in economics?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever discuss economics with Oswald?
Mr. GREGORY. I never discussed it with him because I don't think he
knew anything about it.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did the subject ever come up between you?
Mr. GREGORY. He would always say that is my great love, history and
economics.
Mr. LIEBELER. What did he say about it? I am interested in this,
because I gained the impression from others that he didn't know very
much about it. In my opinion you probably do know more about it than
most of the men that I talked to, so I would like to have you tell us
as much as you can.
Mr. GREGORY. He never said anything, and that is the reason I got the
impression he didn't know anything about it, because if he knew, he
would want to talk about it. I never approached the subject because
he seemed to not want to get into it. I thought from an interview
with him, when they were having all this on TV, that they asked him a
question, something about comparative economics, and he gave some kind
of stupid answer and more or less confirmed my opinion that he didn't
know too much about it. But we never did have a specific discussion
about economics.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever discuss with Oswald any contacts between him
and agents of the Soviet Government in connection with any attempt on
their part to recruit him as an intelligence agent or as open activity
of the Soviet Union?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever discuss it with anybody else?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did it ever occur to you that Oswald might be an agent of
the Soviet Union?
Mr. GREGORY. No; I was always fairly positive that he wasn't, because
I figured that if the Soviets wanted to get someone, they could get
someone a lot more reliable. They would have a lot more sense than to
get him, because I think he was, personally had a bad temper, I think.
Mr. LIEBELER. What makes you say that?
Mr. GREGORY. Well, he would always, he never really didn't get mad, but
he would--I never did figure out if he and Marina were arguing or just
talking, but he would always shout, and I remember one evening that we
went out, were going to the grocery store, and Marina had June in her
arms and she stepped over and fell off the porch, and boy he got mad.
You know, the baby fell on the ground. He really got mad. And that was
the only time I ever saw him real mad. I guess maybe he had reason to
be mad, because Marina had dropped the child.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did she fall out of her arms?
Mr. GREGORY. They both fell. She hurt her back. I thought she had.
Mr. LIEBELER. What did he do?
Mr. GREGORY. He went over and picked up the baby.
Mr. LIEBELER. Then what did he say?
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