Mr. Oswald. I believe the best way to establish the degree of what she understood in English at that time and her ability to speak the English language would be very, very, very small, if anything at all.
Mr. Jenner. As to her facility in that regard—did her facility in that regard become better as the months and years wore on?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Was there any discussion which you overheard or with you, respecting her undertaking to study, learn to speak, English?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; she most certainly wanted to learn to speak English at the time, and she was staying at my home in Fort Worth, Tex., and prior to their departure from Fort Worth, Tex., to Dallas, Tex., in the winter of 1962.
Mr. Jenner. What was your brother's attitude with respect to her desires in that respect?
Mr. Oswald. I do not recall him stating his desires in that respect either pro or con.
Mr. Jenner. You have no impressions on the subject either way?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir. I might have an impression, pardon me, that he wanted her particularly at the time we were staying, they were staying at my home in Fort Worth, Tex., to learn English.
Mr. Jenner. That was expressed in your presence during that period of time by him?
Mr. Oswald. Not in so many words, sir. It was perhaps implied, and he left me with the impression that he wanted her to learn English at that time or as soon as she possibly could, and I might add that on a number of occasions during the visit at my home in Fort Worth, Tex., that my daughter Cathy, with her childhood language in 1961, which would establish her age at 4 years old, would talk to her and it appeared that she would gather more English from Cathy than she would the adults in the family.
Mr. Jenner. Did the State Department or any agency of the United States, get in touch with you with respect to your supplying funds or the possibility of your supplying funds to your brother while he was still in Russia for the purpose of financing his return to the United States?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; they did not.
Mr. Jenner. Did any agency of the United States or any public body located in New York City get in touch with you with respect to supplying him funds for his transportation from New York City to Fort Worth?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir, they did.
Mr. Jenner. Was that the initial request or knowledge to you that you received that funds were necessary, or would be needed for that purpose?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir, that is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Do you remember the name of the agency? Was it the one that you identified yesterday?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir, it was.
Mr. Jenner. All right.
In his letter of November 30, 1961, he makes a request for a football.
Did you send the football to him?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir, I did not.
Mr. Jenner. In the letter of December 14, 1961, which is Commission Exhibit No. 311, he makes a reference to the fact that he had not received any letter with "certain" questions. Apparently questions that you had put to him.
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Do you have that letter?
Mr. Oswald. The letter of July 14?
Mr. Jenner. No, this is December 14.
Mr. Oswald. Pardon me.
Mr. Jenner. That is Commission Exhibit 311. It is two pages.
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir, I have the letter.
Mr. Jenner. Does that refresh your recollection as to some letter you had written him prior thereto?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir, I do.
Mr. Jenner. Will you state what the letter was and whether it was in response to an earlier letter?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir, it was not in response—it was a response to an earlier letter from Lee. I did in an effort to determine whether or not all my letters——
Mr. Jenner. The last prior letter was the letter of November 30, 1961, Commission Exhibit 308, and then immediately prior to that was the letter of November 1, 1961, Commission Exhibit 309.
Mr. Oswald. In reference to the question regarding that letter of December 14, 1961, at which time he stated "I did not receive any letter with 'certain' questions."
I did write him a letter at which time I recall raising two political type questions to see whether or not he would receive——
Mr. Jenner. He would respond?
Mr. Oswald. Sir?
Mr. Jenner. To see whether he would respond, did you say?
Mr. Oswald. To see whether or not he would receive the letter itself.
Mr. Jenner. I am sorry, I thought you said to receive.
Mr. Oswald. I believe, sir; if my memory serves me correct in some earlier letters he refers there to some Russian censors he felt like were censoring his mail and my mail also and I wanted to find out in my own way whether this was so or not.
I might say that was the only time I attempted to raise any type of political questions in my response to any of his letters or any other letters that I sent him, because I did want the letters to go through rather than be destroyed or not received by him.
Mr. Jenner. We can draw our own inference as to whether he received your letter.
Was there any discussion of the subject after return to the United States, that is, the subject whether he had received your letter?
Mr. Oswald. Not to my recollection, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Did you have any discussion with your brother on the subject of his undesirable discharge after he returned to the United States?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I did.
Mr. Jenner. And when was that? Was it more than one occasion?
Mr. Oswald. I believe, sir, only on one occasion did we discuss that matter.
Mr. Jenner. When was that? Where was it?
Mr. Oswald. Approximately June 1962 at my home in Fort Worth, Tex.
Mr. Jenner. Who was present?
Mr. Oswald. I believe just Lee and I were present in this one room which was the living room of our home.
Mr. Jenner. In your home?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. What did he say?
Mr. Oswald. He said he wanted to go down the next day to the Marine Corps office in Fort Worth, Tex., and discuss with them and perhaps find out what action he needed to take to have this corrected to an honorable discharge.
Mr. Jenner. What did you say?
Mr. Oswald. My reply to him on that was that I thought that that was a good idea and that he might raise the question at the Marine Corps office in Fort Worth, Tex., if I could be of some assistance in writing the Marine Corps office directly on behalf of him. I do not recall if he made this trip to the Marine Corps office. I do not recall any further conversation in reference to his dishonorable discharge.
Mr. Jenner. Would you turn your attention now to the letter of May 22, 1962, shortly before he returned to the United States?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Commission Exhibit 318.
As I recall that letter, he refers to some things that you had said when he departed for Russia. Do you find that portion of the letter?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I do.
Mr. Jenner. Would you read it