Jenner. Keep in mind all this history also, Mr. Oswald.
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. That you testified about.
Mr. Oswald. That perhaps he was angry at us or did not want to have anything to do with us. However, it was also my thinking on this that this would be out of character for him because he normally would keep in contact with me and let me have his address and so forth, even though he had furnished a post office box at first and which I understood, but his failure to give me an address indicated——
Mr. Jenner. Despite your at least two requests?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Or three requests?
Mr. Oswald. Indicated to me that perhaps something of a different nature was going on that I was not aware of, whether he was having trouble with Marina and perhaps the baby, and they were not getting along and he did not want me to become aware of this situation; this would be my only speculation on that, sir.
Mr. Dulles. Did your wife have any contact with Marina over this period we are discussing from Thanksgiving of 1962 to November 1963?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; she did not.
Mr. Jenner. Did she ever indicate to you that she made any effort to effect a contact with Marina?
Mr. Oswald. Did my wife?
No, sir; she did not.
Mr. Jenner. In the light, Mr. Oswald, of the fact that your brother, as you testified, you thought looked up to you in his youth at least, in the light of his departure for Russia, in the light of the correspondence that you had with him in Russia about which you have testified, in the light of the conversations that you had with him upon his return, did not the fact that you did not hear from him for as long a period as from Thanksgiving Day of 1962 to well into the fall of 1963 raise any question in your mind beyond that which you have now testified about?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir.
Mr. Jenner. That it might be something other than possible marital difficulties?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir.
Of course, I refer to the postcard of January 10, 1963, and the letter of March 17, 1963, which I would state other than the fact that he did not advise me of his residence in Dallas, Tex.——
Mr. Jenner. Despite the fact that you requested it?
Mr. Oswald. Right, that the infrequency of the mail at this time was going back to prior to the time that he was in Russia, to the extent that he was not writing frequently then when he was in the service and so forth, and then again I thought that he was returning to this, because I was also not writing him as frequently as we had while he was in Russia. And it is my opinion, sir, that Lee felt that he had caused me enough difficulty, that he did not want to in any way, even though I had offered my assistance after his return from Russia, in any way that I possibly could, that he did not want to burden me in case he was in any financial difficulty or any other difficulty.
Mr. Jenner. All right, thank you.
I am going to attempt to cover in general terms, Mr. Chairman, Representative Ford's questions and see if I can shorten up the examination in that respect.
Mr. Dulles. Could I have just a word with you for just a moment.
(Short recess.)
Mr. Jenner. You are acquainted at least by hearsay at the moment, are you not, with respect to an alleged attack having been made by your brother upon General Walker?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I am.
Mr. Jenner. It is that to which I wish to direct a question.
Did you have any knowledge or information of any kind or character at any time prior to November 24, 1963, of that incident?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. Jenner. No one had spoken to you about it?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; they had not.
Mr. Jenner. When did it first come to your attention?
Mr. Oswald. In the newspaper. I believe this to be sometime in the latter part of December 1963 or January 1964.
Mr. Jenner. It was subsequent to your brother's death?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. And you had no information direct or indirect of any kind or character, scuttlebutt, hearsay or otherwise, up to that moment?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct, sir.
Mr. Dulles. Did you know of any acts of violence that your brother had carried out or had contemplated or attempted during his life other than school boy antics?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; I was not. I have never known him to attempt or indicate to attempt to carry out any type of violence other than a schoolboy——
Mr. Jenner. Was he given to tantrums?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; he was not.
Mr. Dulles. Did he ever seem to you to be a man who repressed himself, that he was boiling inside and that there were a great many emotions that he had that he was holding in? Did you get that impression from your knowledge of him?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; I did not. I would say that Lee's character was that he was more of a listener than a talker, not to the extent of being an introvert. I do not believe he was an introvert.
Mr. Jenner. I was about to ask you that question. There have been people who have been interviewed, teachers and others, a good many of them as a matter of fact, who have described your brother as an introvert. Your mother used the expression that he was a loner in a statement that she made to the authorities in New York City, and I think on this record.
Was he in your opinion, gathered from your actual experience with him during his lifetime, a loner, that is, a person who would tend to prefer to be by himself and not seek out friends, not necessarily repulse friends but not affirmatively seek them out?
Mr. Oswald. I would say yes and no, sir, to that question if I may.
Mr. Jenner. All right.
Would you expand then and explain your answer yes and no?
Mr. Oswald. I feel like in the late 1940s to about the time of my departure to the service in July of 1952, that he did seek out friends, and that he did have friends. However, after my release from the service in 1955, I do believe that he had become more grown to himself.
Mr. Jenner. That is during the interim he had become, while you were away?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. You noticed a change in him when you returned from the service?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Is that what you mean to say?
Mr. Oswald. Yes,
