is a letter from Marina to Lee while she was in the hospital, during the birth of June Lee.
Exhibit No. 38 is a letter from Olga Dmovskaya, a friend.
Mr. Rankin. When you say fiance, do you mean she was engaged to someone else?
Mr. Thorne. This is what I understand—prior to her relationship to Lee.
Exhibit No. 39 is another letter from Ella Soboleva.
Exhibit No. 40 is a letter from Lee Harvey to Marina while she was in the hospital with June Lee, during the birth of the baby.
Exhibit No. 41 is a letter from her Aunt Valya.
Exhibit No. 42 is a letter from their friend Pavel.
Exhibit No. 43 is the start of a letter by Marina which was never finished.
Exhibit No. 44 is the start of a letter by Marina which was never finished.
Exhibit No. 45 is a letter from Olga Dmovskaya, the same person who sent a letter in Exhibit No. 38.
Exhibit No. 46 is a letter—is another letter from Aunt Valya.
Exhibit No. 47 is a letter from a friend by the name of Tolya.
Exhibit No. 48 is an address of one of Marina's friends.
Exhibit No. 49 is Marina's draft of a letter to the consulate.
May I see Exhibit 49? I am trying to clear up a point.
Mr. Dulles. What is the date of that?
Mrs. Oswald. That is not a letter. That is an autobiography.
Mr. Thorne. Yes, that is correct. It is the draft of an autobiography for the Russian Consulate.
Exhibit No. 50 is a letter from a friend Erick Titovetz.
Exhibit No. 51 is another letter from Aunt Valya.
Exhibit No. 52 is a letter received by Marina while she was in the hospital with June Lee.
Exhibit No. 53 is Lee Harvey Oswald's writing.
Exhibit No. 54 is a letter from a friend, Laliya.
Exhibit No. 55 is a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to Marina while she was in Kharkov.
Exhibit No. 56 is the same.
Exhibit No. 57 is a letter from Aunt Valya.
Exhibit No. 58 is a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to Marina while she was in the hospital with June Lee.
Exhibit No. 59 is the same.
Exhibit No. 60 is the same.
Exhibit No. 61 is the same.
Exhibit No. 62 is a letter from Anna Meller, who lives in Dallas, to Marina.
Exhibit No. 63 is a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to Marina while she was in the hospital, giving birth to June Lee.
Exhibit No. 64 is a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald—is a letter to Lee from Erick Titovetz.
Exhibit No. 65 is the second page of Exhibit No. 62. That completes the exhibits.
Mr. Rankin. We offer in evidence Exhibits 30 through 65, inclusive.
The Chairman. They may be admitted and take the appropriate numbers.
(The documents referred to were marked Commission Exhibit Nos. 30 through 65, inclusive, and received in evidence.)
Mr. Rankin. Mrs. Oswald, you remember I asked you about the diary that your husband kept. You said that he completed it in Russia before he came to this country, do you remember that?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know whether or not the entries that he made in that diary were made each day as the events occurred?
Mrs. Oswald. No, not each day.
Mr. Rankin. Were they noted shortly after the time they occurred?
Mrs. Oswald. Not all events. What happened in Moscow I don't think that Lee wrote that in Moscow.
Mr. Rankin. What about the entries concerning what happened in Minsk?
Mrs. Oswald. He wrote this while he was working.
Mr. Rankin. And you think those entries were made close to the time that the events occurred?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. As I understand you, you think that the entries concerning the time he was in Moscow before he went to Minsk were entered some time while he was in Minsk, is that right?
Mrs. Oswald. I think so, but I don't know.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know why your husband was sent to Minsk to work and live after he came to the Soviet Union, instead of some other city?
Mrs. Oswald. He was sent there because this is a young and developing city where there are many industrial enterprises which needed personnel. It is an old, a very old city. But after the war, it had been almost completely built anew, because everything has been destroyed. It was easier in the sense of living space in Minsk—it was easier to secure living space. Many immigrants are sent to Minsk. There are many immigrants there now.
Mr. Rankin. Were there many Americans there?
Mrs. Oswald. Americans? No. But from South America, from Argentina, we knew many. Many Argentinians live there—comparatively many.
Mr. Rankin. Did your husband say much about the time he was in Moscow before he went to Minsk and what he did there?
Mrs. Oswald. He didn't tell me particularly much about it, but he said that he walked in Moscow a great deal, that he had visited museums, that he liked Moscow better than Minsk, and that he would have liked to live in Moscow.
Mr. Rankin. Did he say anything about having been on the radio or television at Moscow?
Mrs. Oswald. He said that he was on the radio.
Mr. Rankin. Did he tell you anything about any ceremonies for him when he asked for Soviet citizenship?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. When he was not granted Soviet citizenship, did he say anything about the Soviet Government or his reaction towards their failure to give him citizenship?
Mrs. Oswald. When I read the diary, I concluded from the diary that Lee wanted to become a citizen of the Soviet Union and that he had been refused, but after we were married we talked on that subject and he said it was good that he had refused to accept citizenship. Therefore, I had always thought that Lee had been offered citizenship—but that he didn't want it.
Mr. Rankin. What diary are you referring to that you read?
Mrs.
