Mr. Rankin. Yes.
Mrs. Oswald. All of this here I have said and also said in my home and I have testified that there was a tape recorder in my home brought in by Mr. Max Phillips, Mr. Rankin. Why can't—I don't know anything about tape but it can be spliced and edited and so forth, that much I know because when I have talked for reporters, they don't use everything I say. They splice.
Mr. Rankin. But you recognize, Mrs. Oswald, it would be quite a job to splice in each one of those questions.
Mrs. Oswald. Well, the assassination of the President of the United States and a scapegoat for it would be quite a job, it would be worth while, yes, sir, I realize that.
Mr. Rankin. Let's try a little more.
(Transcription played.)
Mr. Rankin. Do you want to say anything more about this?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, I do. I haven't gone through all of this. I have made the statement over and over that my conversation was stopped. It was approximately a 10-minute conversation and it was stopped with the remark "I see my son crying. All my thoughts have left me."
Is that remark in this any place?
Mr. Rankin. I don't recall that it is.
Mrs. Oswald. Well, we will have to recall, because this, I have stated and was said and that is when I stopped the conversation at the Inn of the Six Flags. Robert came out crying because he couldn't get a minister and I said, "I see my son crying, now all my thoughts have left me," and the interview stopped at the Inn of Six Flags which I have testified was approximately 10 minutes.
Now, sir, there was a microphone in my home. This is not news to anybody. I have said this over and over and over. The ordinary layman by now knows my whole story, Chief Justice Warren. There was Mr. Max Phillips who had a microphone in my home. I testified on tape for over 2 hours at—talked at the Fort Worth Club, which would be, it is the same story over and over, I have told you all the same story that you already have here.
The Chairman. Yes, but it wasn't the same man interrogating you at this place as it was at this hotel, was it?
Mrs. Oswald. About now—I don't know if this is the same man on the whole tape because I haven't listened to it. No, no one interrogated me at the Fort Worth Press Club, sir. I talked, there was an open press.
The Chairman. But it is the same voice we are hearing now asking you questions as at the beginning of this tape, isn't it?
Mrs. Oswald. That is correct. I have just stated, since this is a very big operation, that this could be edited and this man's voice put on there. This I know, because the radio stations called me and they edited what I do. Isn't this possible, that this could be edited, and that this man asked the questions and then my voice be put in. It would be a big job but I am asking isn't that possible? I swear that I have never had answers and questions of this sort, gentlemen.
The Chairman. Shall we turn over about 10 minutes more and see if the same voices are in it there?
(Transcription played.)
Mrs. Oswald. I am not sure but I think it was possible it was an editor that he put me on there.
(Transcription played.)
The Chairman. Well, Mrs. Oswald, those are the same voices.
Mrs. Oswald. That is Mr. Mike Howard's voice, yes, sir, I recognize his voice, yes, sir.
The Chairman. And that is your voice?
Mrs. Oswald. That is my voice.
The Chairman. Yes.
Mrs. Oswald. But I am not going to vary from my story.
The Chairman. Yes, all right.
Mrs. Oswald. That is an interview just 10 minutes at the Inn of Six Flags and that was the only time when going to the courthouse and asked for the FBI of Lee getting the money to come home from the State Department and Congressman Wright knew about it and they left and they didn't even come back and talk to me, sir, yes, sir.
Mr. Rankin. Play just the last part.
Mrs. Oswald. The last 25 minutes.
Mr. Rankin. These last remarks that we listened to were on page 13.
(Transcription played.)
The Chairman. Those are the same two voices, Howard's voice and your voice.
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, I say those are the two same voices, Mr. Mike Howard's voice, yes, sir.
Mr. Rankin. That is on page 21 of the transcript. Mr. Chairman, do you think there is any need for any more?
The Chairman. I don't see any need for going any further with it.
Mrs. Oswald says she didn't have this interview, these questions were not asked of her and these answers given but she does identify the voices as being hers and all we have is her word, and this tape, and the transcription at the present time. So for the moment, I suppose we will just have to leave it where it is.
I don't see any other answer to it.
Mrs. Oswald. All right.
Mr. Rankin. Mrs. Oswald, I have shown you during a recess what has been marked as Exhibit 271, and you have examined the handwriting of that exhibit.
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. And the various letters there. Can you tell us whether or not those handwritings on those various letters are those of your son, Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mrs. Oswald. It looks like his handwriting, I would say so. I am not handwriting expert. It looks very much like his writing.
Mr. Rankin. Thank you. We offer in evidence Exhibit 271.
The Chairman. It will be admitted.
(The document was received in evidence as Commission Exhibit No. 271.)
Mr. Rankin. We understand, Mr. Doyle, that you have examined the original documents of Exhibits 244 through 257, and compared them with the photostatic copies that have been marked.
Mr. Doyle. I have.
Mr. Rankin. And stipulate for the record that the photostats are correct, of the originals, is that agreeable?
Mr. Doyle. I do.
Mr. Rankin. Thank you.
Mr. Chairman, I have nothing further unless Mrs. Oswald has something or Mr. Doyle cares to interrogate Mrs. Oswald about anything.
The Chairman. Mrs. Oswald, do you have anything more you want to say?
Mrs. Oswald. No, I don't have anything more. Do you have any questions, Mr. Doyle?
The Chairman. Mr. Doyle, do you have anything to say?
Mr. Doyle. I have no further questions, no.
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