a library, sit in the living room and read. I was busy with housework, and that is the way it happened.
Mr. Rankin. Did you have differences between you about the time that he spent reading rather than devoting it to you or the other members of the family?
Mrs. Oswald. No. We did have quarrels about his relationship to his mother, the fact that he didn't want to change his relationship to his mother. I know that he read so much that when we lived in New Orleans he used to read sometimes all night long and in order not to disturb me he would be sitting in the bathroom for several hours reading.
Mr. Rankin. Did your quarrels start at that time when you were at Mercedes Street the first time.
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, we didn't have many quarrels.
Mr. Rankin. When you were at Mercedes Street did you have Robert visit you or did you visit him?
Mrs. Oswald. No, he came to us sometimes.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall seeing any guns at Mercedes Street while you were there?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Did your mother-in-law come to see you at Mercedes Street?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Will you describe the relationship between your husband and your mother-in-law while he was at Mercedes Street?
Mrs. Oswald. She did not want us to move away to Mercedes Street, and Lee did not want to remain with her and did not even want her to visit us after that. Lee did not want her to know the address to which we were moving and Robert helped us in the move. I felt very sorry for her. Sometime after that she visited us while Lee was at work and I was quite surprised wondering about how she found out our address. And then we had a quarrel because he said to me, "Why did you open the door for her, I don't want her to come here any more."
Mr. Rankin. During this period did your husband spend much time with the baby, June?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. He loved children very much.
Mr. Rankin. Did you obtain a television set at that time?
Mrs. Oswald. Lee wanted to buy a television set on credit. He then returned it. Should I speak a little louder?
Mr. Rankin. Did Robert help any with the money or just in guaranteeing the payments?
Mrs. Oswald. I think that he only guaranteed the payments.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall how much the television set cost?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. So far as you know it was paid for out of your husband's income?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Were you still at Mercedes Street when he lost his job with the welding company?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Did he try to find another job in Fort Worth then?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know how much he looked for jobs before he found one then?
Mrs. Oswald. He looked for work for some time but he could not find it and then some Russian friends of ours helped him find some work in Dallas.
Mr. Rankin. How long was he out of work?
Mrs. Oswald. It seems to me it was about 2 weeks; hard to remember, perhaps that long.
Mr. Rankin. Where did he find work in Dallas, do you remember the name?
Mrs. Oswald. I know it was some kind of a printing company which prepares photographs for newspapers.
Mr. Rankin. Was he working with the photographic department of that company?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Was he an apprentice in that work trying to learn it?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, at first he was an apprentice and later he worked.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know what his income was when he was working for the welding company?
Mrs. Oswald. I think it was about $200 a month, I don't know. I know it was a dollar and a quarter an hour.
Mr. Rankin. Did he work much overtime at that time?
Mrs. Oswald. Not too much but sometimes he did work Saturdays.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall how much he received as pay at the printing company?
Mrs. Oswald. A dollar forty an hour.
Mr. Rankin. How many hours did he work a week, do you recall?
Mrs. Oswald. He usually worked until 5 p.m. But sometimes he worked later, and on Saturdays, too.
Mr. Rankin. The ordinary work week at that time was the 5-day week then, and the Saturdays would be an overtime period?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Who were the Russian friends who helped your husband find this job in Dallas?
Mrs. Oswald. George Bouhe.
Mr. Rankin. Did this friend and other Russian friends visit you at Mercedes Street?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. When we lived at Fort Worth we became acquainted with Peter Gregory, he is a Russian, he lives in Fort Worth and through him we became acquainted with others.
Mr. Rankin. Will you tell us insofar as you recall, the friends that you knew in Fort Worth?
Mrs. Oswald. Our first acquaintance was Gregory. Through him I met Gali Clark, Mrs. Elena Hall. That is all in Fort Worth. And then we met George Bouhe in Dallas, and Anna Meller, and Anna Ray and Katya Ford.
Mr. Rankin. By your answer do you mean that some of those people you met in Dallas and some in Fort Worth?
Mrs. Oswald. George De Mohrenschildt—this was both in Fort Worth and Dallas, the names of my recital but they were well acquainted with each other, even though some lived in Dallas and some lived in Fort Worth.
Mr. Rankin. Will you please sort them out for us and tell us those you met in Dallas?
Mrs. Oswald. You mean by the question, who out of these Russians lives in Dallas?
Mr. Rankin. Or which ones you met in Dallas as distinguished from those you had already met in Fort Worth?
Mrs. Oswald. In Fort Worth I met the people from Dallas. There was George Bouhe, George De Mohrenschildt—no. Anna Meller and George Bouhe only, they were from Dallas, but I met them in Fort Worth.
Mr. Rankin. Did these friends visit you at your home in Fort Worth?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, sometimes they came to visit us when they were in Dallas, they came to us. Sometimes they made a special trip to come and see us.
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