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
Mrs. LESLIE. No, sir; it was in the daytime, you know, but I don't
know exactly--I can't mention what hour it was, but it was in some
entertainment, you know, some wine and a few things, and there was this
couple with their baby, which was Oswald and his wife.
Mr. JENNER. Who was there in addition to yourself and Mr. Bouhe?
Mrs. LESLIE. Mrs. Meller. From there we went to Mrs. Meller's house for
dinner, so I presume it was something--3 o'clock or 4 o'clock that we
were over at Mr. Bouhe's place, and then we went to Mrs. Meller's place
for dinner.
Mr. JENNER. And who was present on that occasion?
Mrs. LESLIE. There was a few people which I didn't know actually, I
tell you--when I was introduced to Oswald--I didn't catch his name, his
last name. They called them Lee and Marina, you know, and he didn't
impress me very much.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us about that.
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes--he didn't impress me, you know, but the only
thing--the only one thing impressed me--he was talking quite fluently
Russian language. He was making some mistakes, grammar mistakes, in
very good Russian language, because I was born there and raised there,
but he was talking fluently. Everything he was talking in Russian
language, but sometimes he was--he didn't use grammar things or
something, he wasn't quite good in grammar. I think he was doing some
mistakes, not in pronunciation but in grammar.
Mr. JENNER. What about Marina?
Mrs. LESLIE. Marina impressed me as not so like people was saying--they
have an education or something, she was quite wise and she was a
pharmacist. I think as I understood after, she was a pharmacist, I
think I understood after from some Russian, she took course of pharmacy
and was working in Leningrad as a pharmacist, you know, so I will
tell you--this Mr. Bouhe, he is a very kind man. He always liked to
help everybody he can. So, he was born also in--Petrograd, before the
Russian revolution it was, and she was born there, and when he heard
she's from his hometown, that's why he took such an interest in this
couple. He wanted to help them.
Now, she impressed me as a wise person, for her age, you know, and
she was talking very good Russian language, which I rarely ever heard
even on television, you know, sometimes when there was some talk of
Ambassadors. It was a different language they use now--so many new
words which I do not recall in our language. She was talking nice
Russian language and that's all I remember.
Mr. JENNER. Did she speak good grammatically?
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes, she probably finished school, you know, there is a
different systems of school and a special course of pharmacy because
she knew all terms, the Latin terms--something that not many people
know, because she was educated in this field.
Then, we went to dinner and she had the trouble there with her baby,
you know, changing diapers and so on like always, but this first baby
it was. It wasn't the second baby then.
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