The diary about which we talked here previously—in the preceding session.
Mr. Rankin. The one that was completed in Russia that you referred to?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. And when did you first read that?
Mrs. Oswald. I had never read it, because I didn't understand English. But when I was questioned by the FBI, they read me excerpts from that diary.
Mr. Rankin. And that was after the assassination?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. When you and Lee Oswald decided to get married, was there a period of time you had to wait before it could be official?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Did you file an application and then have a period to wait?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. How long was that period of waiting?
Mrs. Oswald. Ten days.
Mr. Rankin. After it was known in Minsk that you were to marry this American, did any officials come to you and talk to you about the marriage?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Mrs. Oswald, we have Exhibits 66 through 91 that we are going to ask your counsel to show to you, and after you have looked at them and are satisfied that you can identify them, then we will ask you to comment on them.
Mrs. Oswald. This is from Lee when I was in the hospital.
Mr. Rankin. What exhibit is that?
Mr. Thorne. These are all part of Exhibit 66. They are various miscellaneous pieces of writing involved in this particular exhibit.
Mrs. Oswald. It was not in June that I was in the hospital. He didn't know that I was in the hospital.
Mr. Rankin. By "he" do you mean your husband Lee Oswald?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. And when did he not know that you were in the hospital?
Mrs. Oswald. Because I was going to work when I began to feel ill, and I was taken to the hospital.
Mr. Rankin. And what time was that?
Mrs. Oswald. In the morning, about 10 a.m.
Mr. Rankin. I mean about what day or month or year?
Mrs. Oswald. September 1961.
Mr. Rankin. Is that before you went to Kharkov?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. And we have already discussed, or I have asked you about that time you were in the hospital.
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. I was there twice.
Mr. Rankin. By twice, you mean this time you have described before you went to Kharkov and the other time when you had the baby?
Mrs. Oswald. This is a letter from Inesse Yakhliel.
Mr. Rankin. That is Exhibit 67?
Mr. Thorne. No, sir, these are all part of Exhibit 66.
Mr. Dulles. I wonder if these should not be marked in some way, because you won't be able to find out what they are in the future—A, B, C, D, or something of this kind.
Mr. Rankin. Mr. Redlich, will you mark those as 66-A, B, C, and D, or however they run?
Mr. Thorne, when you say the first one marked "A", will you make it clear what that is?
Mr. Thorne. The exhibit marked "A"—let me hasten to point out that all of these pieces of paper have a mark "159R". We are denoting individually these papers by starting with A, B, C, and so on.
"A" represents the first piece of paper that was identified earlier in this testimony by Mrs. Oswald, referring again specifically to Exhibit 66, which is composed of many such pieces of paper.
Exhibit B was the second piece of paper that was identified by Mrs. Oswald.
I believe this is the third.
Mrs. Oswald. This is a letter from Inessa Yakhliel.
Mr. Thorne. This will be identified as C.
Mrs. Oswald. The envelope of a letter that Lee wrote me, to Kharkov.
Mr. Thorne. That is identified as Exhibit D.
Mrs. Oswald. From Inessa Yakhliel.
Mr. Thorne. This is identified as Exhibit E.
Mrs. Oswald. This is from Inessa Yakhliel.
Mr. Thorne. This is identified as Exhibit F.
Mrs. Oswald. This is from Lee.
Mr. Thorne. Identified as Exhibit G.
Mrs. Oswald. From my Aunt Luba.
Mr. Thorne. This is identified as Exhibit H.
Mrs. Oswald. This is a letter from Lee.
Mr. Thorne. Exhibit I.
Now, so there is no confusion, let's state again that these are sub-exhibits, letters, and marked 159, from A through I, all part of Exhibit 66.
Mrs. Oswald. I would like to obtain these letters, to preserve them. I don't mean now.
The Chairman. She may see and have copies of any of the letters she desires connected with her testimony.
Mr. Thorne. This is Exhibit 67.
Mrs. Oswald. A photograph of Galiya Khontooleva.
Mr. Thorne. Exhibit 68. Exhibit 68 is two postcards, and they probably need to be identified as A and B.
Let's identify A.
Mrs. Oswald. That is a letter from Lee from New Orleans to Irving—to the home of Mrs. Paine.
And this is a letter from the mother, Lee's mother.
Mr. Thorne. This will be identified as Exhibit 68-B. Exhibit 69 is composed of two postcards. Exhibit 69-A——
Mrs. Oswald. This is from Lee, from New Orleans, addressed to me, when I lived with Ruth Paine.
Mr. Thorne. And Exhibit 69-B?
Mrs. Oswald. A letter from a girl friend from Russia, Ludmila Larionova.
Mr. Thorne. Exhibit No. 70, a postcard.
Mrs. Oswald. From my grandmother, from the mother of my stepfather.
Mr.
