to me, I came to the conclusion that he wanted in any—by any means, good or bad, to get into history. But now that I have heard a part of the translation of some of the documents, I think that there was some political foundation to it, a foundation of which I am not aware.
Representative Boggs. By that, do you mean that your husband acted in concert with someone else?
Mrs. Oswald. No, only alone.
Representative Boggs. You are convinced that his action was his action alone, that he was influenced by no one else?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, I am convinced.
Representative Boggs. Did you consider your husband a Communist?
Mrs. Oswald. He told me when we were in New Orleans that he was a Communist, but I didn't believe him, because I said, "What kind of a Communist are you if you don't like the Communists in Russia?"
Representative Boggs. Did he like the Communists in the United States?
Mrs. Oswald. He considered them to be on a higher level and more conscious than the Communists in Russia.
Representative Boggs. Did you consider your husband a normal man in the usual sense of the term?
Mrs. Oswald. He was always a normal man, but where it concerned his ideas, and he did not introduce me to his ideas, I did not consider him normal.
Representative Boggs. Maybe I used the wrong terminology. Did you consider him mentally sound?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes; he was smart and capable. Only he did not use his capabilities in the proper direction. He was not deprived of reason—he was not a man deprived of reason.
Representative Boggs. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
The Chairman. Senator Cooper, did you have any questions to ask?
Mrs. Oswald. No one knows the truth, no one can read someone else's thoughts, as I could not read Lee's thoughts. But that is only my opinion.
Senator Cooper. Mrs. Oswald, some of the questions that I ask you you may have answered—because I have been out at times.
I believe you have stated that your husband at times expressed opposition to or dislike of the United States or of its political or economic system, is that correct?
Mrs. Oswald. As far as I know, he expressed more dissatisfaction with economic policy, because as to the political matters he did not enlighten me as to his political thoughts.
Senator Cooper. Did he ever suggest to you or to anyone in your presence that the economic system of the United States should be changed, and did he suggest any means for changing it?
Mrs. Oswald. He never proposed that, but from his conversations it followed that it would be necessary to change it. But he didn't propose any methods.
Senator Cooper. Did he ever say to you or anyone in your presence that the system might be changed if officials were changed or authorities of our country were changed?
Mrs. Oswald. No, he never said that to me.
Senator Cooper. Did he ever express to you any hostility towards any particular official of the United States?
Mrs. Oswald. I know that he didn't like Walker, but I don't know whether you could call him an official.
Senator Cooper. May I ask if you ever heard anyone express to him hostility towards President Kennedy?
Mrs. Oswald. No, never.
Senator Cooper. More specifically, I will ask—did you know Mr. Frazier?
Representative Boggs. Wesley Frazier.
Mrs. Oswald. Oh, yes, that is the boy who took him to work.
Senator Cooper. You never heard him or anyone else express to your husband any hostility towards President Kennedy?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Senator Cooper. Mrs. Paine?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Senator Cooper. That is all I have.
The Chairman. Mr. Dulles, have you anything further you would like to ask?
Mr. Dulles. Mr. Chief Justice, I only have one question. Mr. Rankin has kindly asked several questions I had during the course of this hearing, these hearings the last 3 days.
Apart from trying to achieve a place in history, can you think of any other motive or anything that your husband felt he would achieve by the act of assassinating the President? That he was trying to accomplish something?
Mrs. Oswald. It is hard for me to say what he wanted to accomplish, because I don't understand him.
The Chairman. Congressman Ford, did you have anything further?
Representative Ford. Mrs. Oswald after President Kennedy was assassinated, your husband was apprehended and later questioned by a number of authorities. In the questioning he denied that he kept a rifle at Mrs. Paine's home. He denied shooting President Kennedy. And he questioned the authenticity of the photographs that you took of him holding the rifle and the holster.
Now, despite these denials by your husband, you still believe Lee Oswald killed President Kennedy?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Representative Ford. That is all.
Representative Boggs. Mr. Chairman, just one or two other questions.
The Chairman. Yes.
Representative Boggs. Mrs. Oswald, when you lived in New Orleans with your husband, and he was active in this alleged Cuban committee, did you attend any meetings of any committees—was anyone else present?
Mrs. Oswald. No, never.
Representative Boggs. Were there any members of the committee other than your husband?
Mrs. Oswald. There was no one. There was no one. There was no organization in New Orleans. Only Lee was there.
Representative Boggs. One other question. Did he also dislike Russia when he was in Russia?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Representative Boggs. Thank you.
The Chairman. Well, Mrs. Oswald, you have been a very cooperative witness. You have helped the Commission. We are grateful to you for doing this. We realize that this has been a hard ordeal for you to go through.
Mrs. Oswald. It was difficult to speak all the truth.
The Chairman. We hope you know that the questions we have asked you have—none of them have been from curiosity or to embarrass you, but only to report to the world what the truth is.
Now, after you leave here, you may have a copy of everything you have testified to. You may read it, and if there is anything that you think was not correctly recorded, or anything you would like to add to it, you may do
