Mr. Rankin. Did you notice any difference in his attitude towards your child after you saw this change in his personality?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Will you describe to the Commission how your husband treated the baby, and some of his acts, what he did?
Mrs. Oswald. He would walk with June, play with her, feed her, change diapers, take photographs—everything that fathers generally do.
Mr. Rankin. He showed considerable affection for her at all times, did he?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. If I would punish June, he would punish me.
Mr. Rankin. When did you first meet Michael Paine?
Mrs. Oswald. After I became acquainted with Ruth and she visited me for the first time, she asked me to come for a visit to her. This was on a Friday. Her husband, Michael, came for us and drove us to their home in Irving.
Mr. Rankin. They were living together at that time, were they?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Did Michael Paine know Russian?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. At the time of the Walker incident, do you recall whether your husband had his job or had lost it?
Mrs. Oswald. You had said that this had happened on a Wednesday, and it seems to me that it was on a Friday that he was told that he was discharged. He didn't tell me about it until Monday.
Mr. Rankin. But it was on the preceding Friday that he was discharged, was it not?
Mrs. Oswald. No, not the preceding Friday—the Friday after the incident. That is what he told me.
Mr. Rankin. If he had lost his job before the Walker incident, you didn't know it then?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. On the day of the Walker shooting did he appear to go to work as usual?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. And when did he return that day, do you recall?
Mrs. Oswald. Late at night, about 11.
Mr. Rankin. He did not come home for dinner then, before?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, he had come home, and then left again.
Mr. Rankin. Did you notice any difference in his actions when he returned home and had dinner?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Did he appear to be excited, nervous?
Mrs. Oswald. No, he was quite calm. But it seemed to me that inside he was tense.
Mr. Rankin. How could you tell that?
Mrs. Oswald. I could tell by his face. I knew Lee. Sometimes when some thing would happen he wouldn't tell me about it, but I could see it in his eyes, that something had happened.
Mr. Rankin. And you saw it this day, did you?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. When did he leave the home after dinner?
Mrs. Oswald. I think it was about 7. Perhaps 7:30.
Mr. Rankin. Did you observe whether he took any gun with him?
Mrs. Oswald. No. He went downstairs. We lived on the second floor. He said, "Bye-bye."
Mr. Rankin. Did you look to see if the gun had been taken when he did not return?
Mrs. Oswald. No, I didn't look to see.
Mr. Rankin. Mr. Chairman, we have gone our hour.
The Chairman. Yes. I think we will take a 10 minute recess now, so you might refresh yourself.
Mrs. Oswald. Thank you.
(Brief recess.)
The Chairman. The Commission will be in order. Mr. Rankin, you may continue.
Mr. Rankin. Mrs. Oswald, you told us about your knowledge about the trip to Mexico and said that you were under oath and were going to tell us all about what you knew.
Did your husband ever ask you not to disclose what you knew about the Mexican trip?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. And when was that?
Mrs. Oswald. Before he left. I had remained and he was supposed to leave on the next day, and he warned me not to tell anyone about it.
Mr. Rankin. After he returned to Dallas from his Mexico trip, did he say anything to you then about not telling he had been to Mexico?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, he asked me whether I had told Ruth about it or anyone else, and I told him no, and he said that I should keep quiet about it.
Mr. Rankin. I will hand you Exhibit 1 for identification, and ask you if you recall seeing that document before.
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, this is the note that I found in connection with the Walker incident.
Mr. Rankin. That you already testified about?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. And there is attached to it a purported English translation.
The Chairman. Do you want that marked and introduced at this time, Mr. Rankin?
Mr. Rankin. Yes, I would like to offer the document.
The Chairman. The document may be marked Exhibit 1 and offered in evidence.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 1, and received in evidence.)
Mr. Rankin. Can you tell us what your husband meant when he said on that note, "The Red Cross also will help you."
Mrs. Oswald. I understand that if he were arrested and my money would run out, I would be able to go to the Red Cross for help.
Mr. Rankin. Had you ever discussed that possibility before you found the note?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know why he left you the address book?
Mrs. Oswald. Because it contained the addresses and telephone numbers of his and my friends in Russia and here.
Mr. Rankin. And you had seen that book before and knew its contents, did you?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. I will hand you Exhibit 2 for identification and ask you if you know what that is.
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know whether or not that is a photograph of the Walker house in Dallas?
Mrs. Oswald. I didn't see it—at least—taken from this view I can't recognize it. I know that the photograph of Walker's home which I saw showed a two-story house. But I don't recognize it from this view. I never saw the house itself at any time in my life.
Mr. Rankin. Does Exhibit 2 for identification appear to be the picture that you described yesterday of the Walker house that you thought your husband had taken and put in his book?
Mrs. Oswald. No. Perhaps this was in his notebook. But I don't remember this particular one.
The Chairman. Mr. Rankin, do you want this in the record?
Mr. Rankin. Mr. Chairman, she hasn't been able to identify that sufficiently.
Mrs. Oswald. Excuse me. Perhaps there are some other photographs there that I might be able to recognize.
Mr. Rankin. I will present some more to you, and possibly you can then pick out the Walker house.
Mrs. Oswald. I know these photographs.
Mr. Rankin. I now hand you a photograph which has been labeled Exhibit 4 for identification. I ask if you can identify the subject of that photograph,