Mr. Rankin. Can you give us any more exact account of where your husband stayed in the period between October 10 and November 18, 1962?
Mrs. Oswald. I don't remember his exact address. This was a period when I did not live with him.
I am asking about which period is it. I don't remember the dates.
Mr. Rankin. The period that he rented the apartment was November 3, so that shortly after that, as I understood your testimony, you were with him, from November 3, or about November 3 on to the 18th. Is that right?
Mrs. Oswald. From November 3 to November 18, 1962? On Elsbeth Street? No, I was there longer.
Mr. Rankin. And do you recall the date that you went to Mrs. Hall's, then?
Mrs. Oswald. No, I don't remember. The day when he rented the apartment was a Sunday. But where he lived before that, I don't know.
Mr. Rankin. After you went to live with him in the apartment, around November 3, how long did you stay before you went to live with your friend?
Mrs. Oswald. Approximately a month and a half. Perhaps a month. I am not sure.
Mr. Rankin. And when you were at Fort Worth, and he was living in Dallas, did he call you from time to time on the telephone?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, he called me and he wrote letters and sometimes he came for a visit.
Mr. Rankin. And during that time, did he tell you where he was staying?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, he said that he had rented a room, but he did not tell me his address.
I want to help you, but I don't know.
Mr. Rankin. Did you think there was something in your husband's life in America, his friends and so forth, that caused him to be different here?
Mrs. Oswald. No, he had no friends who had any influence over him. He himself had changed by comparison to the way he was in Russia. But what the reason for that was, I don't know.
Am I giving sufficient answers to your questions?
Mr. Rankin. You are doing fine.
Did your consideration of a divorce from your husband have anything to do with his ideas and political opinions?
Mrs. Oswald. No. The only reasons were personal ones with reference to our personal relationship, not political reasons.
Mr. Rankin. In your story you say that what was involved was some of his crazy ideas and political opinions. Can you tell us what you meant by that?
Mrs. Oswald. This was after the case, after the matter of the divorce. I knew that Lee had such political leanings.
Mr. Rankin. With regard to your Russian friends, did you find the time when they came less to see you and didn't show as much interest in you?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Can you give us about the time, just approximately when you noticed that difference?
Mrs. Oswald. Soon after arriving in Dallas. Mostly it was De Mohrenschildt who visited us. He was the only one who remained our friend. The others sort of removed themselves.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know why that was?
Mrs. Oswald. Because they saw that Lee's attitude towards them was not very proper, he was not very hospitable, and he was not glad to see them. They felt that he did not like them.
Mr. Rankin. Will you describe what you observed that caused you to think this, or how your husband acted in regard to these friends?
Mrs. Oswald. He told me that he did not like them, that he did not want them to come to visit.
Mr. Rankin. Did he show any signs of that attitude towards them?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, he was not very talkative when they came for a visit. Sometimes he would even quarrel with them.
Mr. Rankin. When he quarreled with them, was it in regard to political ideas or what subjects?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, they would not agree with him when he talked on political matters.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall any conversation that you can describe to us?
Mrs. Oswald. Of course it is difficult to remember all the conversations. But I know that they had a difference of opinion with reference to political matters. My Russian friends did not approve of everything. I am trying to formulate it more exactly. They did not like the fact that he was an American who had gone to Russia. I think that is all. All that I can remember.
Mr. Rankin. What did they say about——
Mrs. Oswald. Excuse me. Simply I would be busy, and I didn't listen to the conversation.
Mr. Rankin. Can you recall anything else about the conversation or the substance of it?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. When did you first consider the possibility of returning to the Soviet Union?
Mrs. Oswald. I never considered that, but I was forced to because Lee insisted on it.
Mr. Rankin. When you considered it, as you were forced to, by his insistence, do you know when it was with reference to your first request to the Embassy, which was February 17, 1963?
Mrs. Oswald. February 17?
Mr. Rankin. Yes.
Mrs. Oswald. I think it was a couple of weeks before that, at the beginning of February.
Mr. Rankin. Did your husband know about the letter you sent to the Embassy on February 17?
Mrs. Oswald. Of course. He handed me the paper, a pencil, and said, "Write."
Mr. Rankin. Did he tell you what to put in the letter, or was that your own drafting?
Mrs. Oswald. No, I knew myself what I had to write, and these were my words. What could I do if my husband didn't want to live with me? At least that is what I thought.
Mr. Rankin. Did you ever have arguments with your husband about smoking and drinking wine, other things like that?
Mrs. Oswald. About drinking wine, no. But he didn't like the fact that I smoked, because he neither smoked nor drank. It would have been better if he had smoked and drank.
Mr. Rankin. Can you tell us approximately when you first met Ruth Paine?
Mrs. Oswald. Soon after New Years—I think it was in January.
Mr. Rankin. Would that be 1963?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Can you describe the circumstances when you met her?
Mrs. Oswald. We were invited, together with George De Mohrenschildt and his wife, to the home of his friend, an American. And Ruth was acquainted with that American. She was also visiting there. And there were a number of other people there, Americans.
Mr. Rankin. Who was this friend? Do you recall?
Mrs. Oswald. I don't remember his last name. If you would suggest, perhaps I could say.
Mr. Rankin. Was that Mr. Glover?
Mrs. Oswald. What is his first name?
Mr. Rankin. Everett.
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. I don't know his last name.
Mr. Rankin. Did you talk to Mrs. Paine in Russian at that time?
Mrs. Oswald. A little, yes.
Mr. Rankin. Did Mrs. Paine ever visit you at Elsbeth Street?
Mrs. Oswald. At Neely, on Neely Street.
Mr. Rankin. But not at Elsbeth?
Mrs. Oswald. We moved soon after that acquaintance.
Mr. Rankin. How did your husband treat June? Was he a good father?
Mrs.