house, did he call you and give you the number there?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall where he was when he gave this fictitious name?
Mrs. Oswald. What do you mean where he was? From where he telephoned?
Mr. Rankin. Yes, or the number that he gave you—that is the rooming house that he was at when he used this fictitious name, and you told us you called there.
Mrs. Oswald. He lived at first in one place, and then he changed. It was the last place where he had given a fictitious name. I don't know what name he lived under in the first place, because I never telephoned him.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know the name that he lived under in the second place, when you did call him?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. You don't remember the fictitious name that he gave you?
Mrs. Oswald. I read in the paper after everything happened, but at that time I didn't know. He said that his last name was Lee. He didn't say that. I read that in the paper.
Mr. Rankin. Did that remind you, then, that that was the name they gave you when you called and he answered the telephone?
Mrs. Oswald. No, no one told me anything. I didn't know under what name he lived there.
Mr. Rankin. But you found out that he was not living under his own name, is that what you meant before?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. After he got his job, did he return the next weekend to see you?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Do you remember whether that time he returned was on Friday or Saturday?
Mrs. Oswald. It was on Friday, October 18. It was his birthday.
He stopped with Ruth. On Sunday I went to the hospital, and he stayed overnight from Monday until Tuesday.
Mr. Rankin. After your husband returned from Mexico, did you examine the rifle in the garage at any time?
Mrs. Oswald. I had never examined the rifle in the garage. It was wrapped in a blanket and was lying on the floor.
Mr. Rankin. Did you ever check to see whether the rifle was in the blanket?
Mrs. Oswald. I never checked to see that. There was only once that I was interested in finding out what was in that blanket, and I saw that it was a rifle.
Mr. Rankin. When was that?
Mrs. Oswald. About a week after I came from New Orleans.
Mr. Rankin. And then you found that the rifle was in the blanket, did you?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, I saw the wooden part of it, the wooden stock.
Mr. Rankin. On the weekend before your husband got his job at the depository, did he spend that with you at the Paines?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Did he come home Friday or Saturday?
Mrs. Oswald. On a Friday.
Mr. Rankin. When he returned to Dallas on Monday, the 14th of October, did he tell you he was going to change his room?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Do you remember what your husband's pay was at the depository?
Mrs. Oswald. It seems to me that it was also $1.25.
Mr. Rankin. About how much a month did it run?
Mrs. Oswald. It seems to me it was $210 to $230.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall the hours that he worked?
Mrs. Oswald. It seems that—it seems to me that it was from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mr. Rankin. And did he work the weekend or any overtime?
Mrs. Oswald. No. It does happen in that depository that they work overtime. But he did not have to work any.
Mr. Rankin. During the week when he was in Dallas and you were at Irving, did he call you from time to time?
Mrs. Oswald. Daily, twice.
Mr. Rankin. Did he leave his telephone number in Dallas with you?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
I don't have it, it was in Paine's notebook.
Mr. Rankin. Did he speak to you in Russian when he called you on the telephone?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. Sometimes he would try to speak in English when someone was listening, and he didn't want them to know he spoke Russian—then he would try to speak in English.
Mr. Rankin. Did he ever speak in Spanish when he was talking to you from Dallas?
Mrs. Oswald. No. He doesn't speak Spanish. I don't either. His landlady heard him say "Adios" and she decided that he spoke Spanish, because she didn't understand that he had spoken Russian all that time.
Mr. Rankin. Did you have a special celebration for your husband's birthday?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. When was that?
Mrs. Oswald. On October 18th.
Mr. Rankin. Who was there?
Mrs. Oswald. Ruth and her children, I, Lee, and Paine's husband, Michael.
Mr. Rankin. Did Wesley Frazier bring your husband home at that time?
Mrs. Oswald. Frazier is the last name? Wesley was that boy's name. I now remember.
Mr. Rankin. Did he bring him home that weekend?
Mrs. Oswald. I don't remember.
It seems to me, yes. It is hard to remember now which weekend was which.
Mr. Rankin. On these weekends, did you ever observe your husband going to the garage, practicing with the rifle in any way?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Did you see him leave the house when he could have been going to the garage and practicing with his rifle?
Mrs. Oswald. No, he couldn't have practiced while we were at the Paine's, because Ruth was there. But whenever she was not at home, he tried to spend as much time as he could with me—he would watch television in the house. But he did go to the garage to look at our things that were there.
Mr. Rankin. And you don't know when he went there what he might have done with the rifle? Is that what you mean?
Mrs. Oswald. At least I didn't notice anything.
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