Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) — John Shaqi
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. Are you sure that she told you they stayed in Moscow for
a whole year or did they just go to Moscow to see about the papers and
then come back to Minsk and wait in Minsk for the year to go by?
Mrs. RAY. Well, really, when Mrs. Ford call us, she on telephone told
us that she come from Moscow, you know. That is girl, Russian girl,
she says she come back from Moscow.
Mr. LIEBELER. From Moscow?
Mrs. RAY. Yeah, and then later on Marina said that she, you know--let
me see how she say--that she come from Moscow. She fly--not fly--I do
not know how they come but she say from Moscow she come to America but
she been in Moscow 1 year. Said that's year or little better but she
been in Moscow with him; that's what she tell.
Mr. LIEBELER. For a year?
Mrs. RAY. Yeah.
Mr. LIEBELER. But they did not tell you what they were doing there for
a job?
Mrs. RAY. No; well, she tell he have to wait on paper this long and
that's as far as I know.
Mr. LIEBELER. Now, did Marina know how to speak English as far as you
could tell?
Mrs. RAY. No; she don't understand word. She speak Russian but she
don't understand English.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Oswald or Marina tell you what kind of an apartment
they had to live in when they lived in Minsk?
Mrs. RAY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did they tell you where they lived when they were in
Moscow?
Mrs. RAY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you remember anything else that they may have told
you about the time that they were in Russia together?
Mrs. RAY. Well, I don't think anything else. I can recall main things.
I never been concerned about where they lived or what they been doing.
All I wanted to know how easy she get out, you know; how come she so
easy to go when such a difficulty to have anything to do. That's why my
impression been that everything is get better, you know.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did they tell you how much money Oswald was paid at his
job?
Mrs. RAY. Where, there?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes.
Mrs. RAY. No, uh-uh.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did they tell you why Oswald went to Russia in the first
place?
Mrs. RAY. No; but I read in the paper and then, you know, before he
went, I remember in Fort Worth paper, I read it about boy went to
Russia that he said that's government he preferred and that's place he
want to go to live and--but that's as far as--then Mrs. Harris is one
that told me she know about him, that he went to Russia and want to
stay there and then he change his mind and want to come back to America.
Mr. LIEBELER. You knew that about Oswald when you met him at Ford's
party, is that right?
Mrs. RAY. Yes--no, no; I don't know it because we suppose to know it
and Zena--that's Mrs. Harris--don't know either who they are but when
we go Mrs. Harris found out who is here and then she told me. That's in
conversation, you know, he went to Russia and don't like it and he come
back but marry this Russian girl and brought her with.
Mr. LIEBELER. So, you learned that at the Ford party because Mrs.
Harris told you that, is that right?
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