over-all.
Mr. Oswald. I would say a C or C-plus, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Are you acquainted with the scholarship in that respect of your brother John?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; I am not. I could, if you wish me to, make an opinion on what I think it would be.
Mr. Jenner. This opinion being based upon your attending school with him, as you testified yesterday?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. Jenner. And discussions with him back and forth between the both of you as to how you were getting along?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Common interest in your progress scholarshipwise?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. What is your present recollection as to his scholarship?
Mr. Oswald. That would be a C-plus or a B.
Mr. Jenner. A touch higher than yours?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Did you have an opportunity during your lifetime to form a like opinion as to the scholarship of your brother Lee?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I have.
Mr. Jenner. And what was his scholarship?
Mr. Oswald. I would say a C to a C-plus, in the same category that I place myself.
Mr. Jenner. Mr. Oswald and Mr. McKenzie, Mr. Chairman, have furnished us with the originals of a series of letters and postcards which Mr. Oswald, the witness, received from his brother Lee Harvey Oswald. We have prepared photostatic copies on a Xerox machine of each of those letters, and each envelope relating to that letter. And in the case of postcards the front and reverse side of postcards.
We were further accommodated, by—yesterday afternoon following the close of the session—by sitting down with Mr. Oswald and in his presence comparing the photostatic copy of each document with the original, the original being in the possession of Mr. Oswald. And I am marking each of those documents with an exhibit number.
Mr. Dulles. Could you give us, Mr. Jenner, the first and last dates, so we have an idea of the period covered?
I have a general idea, of course.
Mr. Jenner. Yes. Two of these items are not in exact sequence, but——
Mr. Dulles. Two have been introduced already, have they not?
Mr. McKenzie. Yes, I think you are right, Mr. Dulles.
Mr. Jenner. That is correct. A letter of November 8, 1959, introduced in evidence yesterday. I don't recall what the second one was, but at least——
Mr. Dulles. Were they marked at that time as exhibits?
Mr. Jenner. That was marked as an exhibit. And Mr. Liebeler has it.
The November 8 letter, Mr. Chairman, is marked Commission Exhibit No. 294, and it is in evidence.
Mr. Dulles. There was only one letter, or were there two?
Mr. Jenner. There was just one letter. I think, if you please, you have reference to a telegram, which is Exhibit No. 293.
Mr. Dulles. That is it—the telegram.
Mr. Jenner. Being a telegram dated 14 June 1962.
Mr. Dulles. And these other exhibits cover what period?
Mr. Jenner. They commence—the first, Commission Exhibit No. 295, is a letter of eight pages dated November 26, 1959, and concluding with Exhibit No. 322, a letter of two pages dated March 16, 1963.
Mr. Dulles. Were those all from Russia?
Mr. Jenner. They were all from Russia, save the letter dated March 17, 1963, being Exhibit No. 322, a letter of two pages. All the others are from Russia.
Mr. Dulles. Where was that letter from—do you recall?
Mr. Jenner. It is postmarked—the envelope "Lee H. Oswald, P.O. Box 2915, Dallas, Texas."
And the cancellation stamp likewise says Dallas, Texas.
The date is that which I have already recited.
Mr. Dulles. That was after Lee Harvey's return from the Soviet Union?
Mr. Jenner. Yes, he returned in June of 1962.
Mr. Dulles. And that letter is dated what?
Mr. Jenner. March 17, 1963.
Would you follow me, Mr. Oswald? In each instance, when we compared the letters and the envelopes, it is a fact, is it not, Mr. Oswald, that the letter in question was contained in the envelope of which we have a photostatic copy—and was received by you intact? That is, the envelope was sealed, and the letter content was in the envelope, that you personally opened the envelope and removed the letter content? That in each instance, the letter content is in the handwriting of your brother, Lee Harvey Oswald, entirely, with the exception of Commission Exhibit 299, which is a letter of three pages dated May 31, 1961, upon the last page of which there is a paragraph in the handwriting of Marina Oswald, written in the Russian language?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I take that to be Mrs. Marina Oswald's writing at that time.
Mr. Jenner. And there appears on that page following that paragraph written in Russian what purports to be an English interpretation of it?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Furthermore, that in each instance the envelope and the letter content is—are in the same condition now as they were when you received them?
Mr. McKenzie. Except for opening.
Mr. Jenner. Except for the opening of the envelope which was necessary for you to do in order to remove the content. Is my statement correct?
Mr. Oswald. With this exception, sir. That a number of the letters were not opened by me personally. By that, I mean my wife opened them when she received the mail at the house.
I have marked the chronological date on the front of them in the last few days.
Mr. Jenner. So that there appears on these exhibits in your handwriting a date on the envelope and in some instances on the letter content?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Which you wrote thereon, and which was not on either the envelope or the letter at the time it was received by you?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Those exhibit numbers—excuse me. There are three postcards—Commission Exhibit No. 310, dated December 11, 1961, which is a Christmas card, Commission Exhibit 319, which is a postcard dated October 10, 1962, and Commission Exhibit 321, a postcard dated April 10, 1962. Each of
