3-year period, what contact did you have with the members of your family, and with particular reference, if you can give that first, with your brother Lee—his writing you, you writing him?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; we were corresponding infrequently, I would say—not very many letters between I and Lee direct when I was in the service, especially the first part of my tour in the service.
In 1952, after traveling from Camp Pendleton, Calif., to Jacksonville, Fla., I did have a 10-day leave. They were in New York City at that time.
Mr. Jenner. This was then some time in 1953, I take it?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir—1952.
Mr. Jenner. 1952?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir. This was——
Mr. Jenner. You mean your mother and Lee—that is the period of time they were in New York City?
Mr. Oswald. That's correct.
Mr. Jenner. Living there.
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Did you see them?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; not at that time. I spent my leave in Fort Worth, because I did not feel I had enough time to travel to New York and down to Jacksonville, Fla. After completing metalsmith school at Millington, Tenn., I took a 10-day leave.
Mr. Jenner. Fix the time.
Mr. Oswald. This was July or August of 1953. I had my orders to go to Miami, Fla. I took a 10-day leave and left Millington, Tenn., by car and came to New York City and spent 10 days in New York with Lee, mother, John, and his family.
Mr. Jenner. Where did you stay?
Mr. Oswald. At mother's apartment, with Lee, in the Bronx some place—I do not recall the address.
Mr. Jenner. What, if anything, did you learn at that time regarding Lee's attendance or nonattendance in school?
Mr. Oswald. Nothing on that, sir. This was in the summer time. Lee, of course, was home and not supposed to be in school. And I do not think anything was brought up that I recall about whether or not Lee had been attending school regularly or not.
Mr. McKenzie. Can we go off the record?
Mr. Jenner. Yes.
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. Dulles. Back on the record.
Mr. Jenner. Referring to the 10-day leave in New York City, did you spend time with your brother Lee?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Your mother was working during that period of time, was she not?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. In spending time with him, did you take him around, or accompany him, visiting various places in New York City?
Mr. Oswald. He took me around, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Did you have occasion during that period to take any photographs, snapshots, of Lee?
Mr. Oswald. I certainly can identify the one appearing in Life—yes, sir; I did.
Mr. Jenner. Just hold your answers right in this area exactly to my questions.
Mr. Oswald. I'm sorry.
Mr. Jenner. Were these taken with your camera, or was it a camera that your mother or brother owned or had?
Mr. Oswald. This was my camera.
Mr. Dulles. What do these questions refer to? Do they refer to the pictures in Life?
Mr. Jenner. Well, I really did not want to refer to that at the moment.
Do you remember any of the places at which you took snapshots of Lee during this 10-day leave?
Mr. Oswald. The Bronx Zoo I believe was about the only time I can recall taking any pictures of him.
Mr. Jenner. I am at liberty to advise you, Mr. Oswald, that when your mother testified before the Commission she did produce a number of photographs, snapshots, and otherwise, among which was a snapshot of your brother, Lee, taken at the New York Zoo—that she testified was taken at the New York Zoo.
Is that the incident in which you took the photograph of your brother Lee, as far as you know?
Mr. Oswald. You say the New York Zoo, sir. As far as I know there is just one zoo up there referred to as the Bronx Zoo. I do recall, and I still have the picture that I took of Lee at the Bronx Zoo. I certainly feel that perhaps either I sent copies of it to mother, or to Lee after I had the film developed.
Mr. Jenner. Mr. Chairman, may I go off the record a moment?
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. Dulles. Back on the record.
Mr. Jenner. For the purpose of the record, I have before me the February 21, 1964, issue of Life magazine, on pp. 68-A, 68-B, and 70 of which there appear a number of photographs. I think it would be well if we gave this spread page an exhibit number. And since it really consists of two separate pages—the next exhibit numbers are what?
Mr. Liebeler. 281 and 282.
Mr. Jenner. We will mark 68-B as 281 and page 69 as 282.
(The material referred to was marked Commission Exhibits Nos. 281 and 282, respectively, for identification.)
Mr. McKenzie. Mr. Jenner—the only thing you are offering to the Commission at this time as I understand it are the pictures that appear on those two pages and not the text.
Mr. Jenner. That's correct, sir.
Directing your attention to page 69, identified as Commission Exhibit 282, there is a picture of a young boy and the background looks like it might be taken in a zoo. You mentioned that you had taken a snapshot of your brother on this 10-day leave.
Could you examine that and see if you can identify that as being the snapshot you took?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir, I do so identify that picture. That was taken at the Bronx Zoo—a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald, taken during my 10-day leave in New York City in 1953, approximately July or August of 1953.
Mr. Jenner. Was school in session at that time?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir, school was not in session at that time. This was during the summer months.
Mr. Jenner. So there was no obligation on the part of your brother to have been in school at this particular time?
Mr. Oswald. That's correct, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Now, appearing immediately above that snapshot is a snapshot or a photograph, a picture of two boys. Do you recognize either or both of those children?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I do. I recognize the young boy standing,
