He said it was my business. And he said, "Okay, if you wish." He had nothing against it. He only took offense at the fact that I hadn't told him about it ahead of time.
Mr. Rankin. Are you a member of any church?
Mrs. Oswald. I believe in God, of course, but I do not go to church—first because I do not have a car. And, secondly, because there is only one Russian Church. Simply that I believe in God in my own heart, and I don't think it is necessary to visit the church.
Mr. Rankin. While your husband—or while you were visiting the Halls, did your husband tell you about getting his job in Dallas?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. I knew about it before he left for Dallas, that he already had work there.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall whether your husband rented the apartment in Dallas about November 3, 1962?
Mrs. Oswald. For him?
Mr. Rankin. Yes.
Mrs. Oswald. He had told me that he rented a room, not an apartment. But that was in October.
What date I don't know.
Mr. Rankin. And had he obtained an apartment before you went to Dallas to live with him?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. Cleaned everything up.
Mr. Rankin. So that you would have gone to Dallas to live with him some time on or about the date that he rented that apartment?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. After you went to live with him in the apartment at Dallas, did you separate from him again and go to live with somebody else?
Mrs. Oswald. Only after this quarrel. Then I stayed with my friends for one week. I had already told you about that.
Mr. Rankin. That is the Meller matter?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall that you called Mrs. Meller and told her about your husband beating you and she told you to get a cab and come to stay with her?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, but he didn't beat me.
Mr. Rankin. And you didn't tell her that he had beat you, either?
Mrs. Oswald. I don't think so. Perhaps she understood it that he had beaten me, because it had happened.
Mr. Rankin. Can you give us any more exact account of where your husband stayed in the period between October 10 and November 18, 1962?
Mrs. Oswald. I don't remember his exact address. This was a period when I did not live with him.
I am asking about which period is it. I don't remember the dates.
Mr. Rankin. The period that he rented the apartment was November 3, so that shortly after that, as I understood your testimony, you were with him, from November 3, or about November 3 on to the 18th. Is that right?
Mrs. Oswald. From November 3 to November 18, 1962? On Elsbeth Street? No, I was there longer.
Mr. Rankin. And do you recall the date that you went to Mrs. Hall's, then?
Mrs. Oswald. No, I don't remember. The day when he rented the apartment was a Sunday. But where he lived before that, I don't know.
Mr. Rankin. After you went to live with him in the apartment, around November 3, how long did you stay before you went to live with your friend?
Mrs. Oswald. Approximately a month and a half. Perhaps a month. I am not sure.
Mr. Rankin. And when you were at Fort Worth, and he was living in Dallas, did he call you from time to time on the telephone?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, he called me and he wrote letters and sometimes he came for a visit.
Mr. Rankin. And during that time, did he tell you where he was staying?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, he said that he had rented a room, but he did not tell me his address.
I want to help you, but I don't know.
Mr. Rankin. Did you think there was something in your husband's life in America, his friends and so forth, that caused him to be different here?
Mrs. Oswald. No, he had no friends who had any influence over him. He himself had changed by comparison to the way he was in Russia. But what the reason for that was, I don't know.
Am I giving sufficient answers to your questions?
Mr. Rankin. You are doing fine.
Did your consideration of a divorce from your husband have anything to do with his ideas and political opinions?
Mrs. Oswald. No. The only reasons were personal ones with reference to our personal relationship, not political reasons.
Mr. Rankin. In your story you say that what was involved was some of his crazy ideas and political opinions. Can you tell us what you meant by that?
Mrs. Oswald. This was after the case, after the matter of the divorce. I knew that Lee had such political leanings.
Mr. Rankin. With regard to your Russian friends, did you find the time when they came less to see you and didn't show as much interest in you?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Can you give us about the time, just approximately when you noticed that difference?
Mrs. Oswald. Soon after arriving in Dallas. Mostly it was De Mohrenschildt who visited us. He was the only one who remained our friend. The others sort of removed themselves.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know why that was?
Mrs. Oswald. Because they saw that Lee's attitude towards them was not very proper, he was not very hospitable, and he was not glad to see them. They felt that he did not like them.
Mr. Rankin. Will you describe what you observed that caused you to think this, or how your husband acted in regard to these friends?
Mrs. Oswald. He told me that he did not like them, that he did not want them to come to visit.
Mr. Rankin. Did he show any signs of that attitude towards them?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, he was not very talkative when they came for a visit. Sometimes he would even quarrel with them.
Mr. Rankin. When he quarreled with them, was it in regard to political ideas or what subjects?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, they would not agree with him when he talked on political matters.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall any conversation that you can describe to us?
Mrs. Oswald. Of course it is difficult to remember all the conversations. But I know that they had a difference of opinion with reference to political matters. My Russian friends did not approve of everything. I am trying to formulate it more exactly. They did not like the fact that he was an American who had gone to Russia. I think that is all. All that I can
