Mrs. Oswald.

Yes, just visits. Just visits, with his wife and child.

Mr. Rankin.

When the De Mohrenschildts came to the house and you showed them the rifle, did you say anything about it?

Mrs. Oswald.

Perhaps I did say something to him, but I don't remember.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you say anything like "Look what my crazy one has done? Bought a rifle" or something of that kind?

Mrs. Oswald.

This sounds like something I might say. Perhaps I did.

Mr. Rankin.

In the period of October 1962, you did spend some time with Mrs. Hall, did you not, in her home?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

Will you tell us about how that happened?

Mrs. Oswald.

When Lee found work in Dallas, Elena Hall proposed that I stay with her for some time, because she was alone, and I would be company.

Mr. Rankin.

Did that have anything to do with any quarrels with your husband?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

During that period of October of 1962, when your husband went to Dallas to get work, do you know where he lived?

Mrs. Oswald.

I know that for---at first, for some time he stayed at the YMCA, but later he rented an apartment, but I don't know at what address. Because in the letters which he wrote me, the return address was a post office box.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know whether he stayed during that period part of the time with Gary Taylor?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

Where did you live while your husband was looking for work and staying at the YMCA and at this apartment that you referred to?

Mrs. Oswald.

When he stayed at the YMCA he had already found work, and I was in Fort Worth.

Mr. Rankin.

And where in Fort Worth were you staying then?

Mrs. Oswald.

With Mrs. Hall.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you notice a change, psychologically, in your husband during this period in the United States?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

When did you first notice that change?

Mrs. Oswald.

At--at Elsbeth Street, in Dallas. After the visit of the FBI, in Fort Worth. He was for some time nervous and irritable.

Mr. Rankin.

Did he seem to have two different personalities then?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

Would you describe to the Commission what he did to cause you to think that he was changing?

Mrs. Oswald.

Generally he was---usually he was quite as he always was. He used to help me. And he was a good family man. Sometimes, apparently with out reason, at least I did not know reasons, if any existed, he became quite a stranger. At such times it was impossible to ask him anything. He simply kept to himself. He was irritated by trifles.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you recall any of the trifles that irritated him, so as to help us to know the picture?

Mrs. Oswald.

It is hard to remember any such trifling occurrences, sometimes such a small thing as, for example, dinner being five minutes late, and I do mean five minutes--it is not that I am exaggerating---he would be very angry. Or if there were no butter on the table, because he hadn't brought it from the icebox, he would with great indignation ask, "Why is there no butter?" And at the same time if I had put the butter on the table he wouldn't have touched it.
This is foolishness, of course. A normal person doesn't get irritated by things like that.

Mr. Rankin.

Mrs. Oswald, I do not ask these questions to pry into your personal affairs, but it gives us some insight into what he did and why he might have done the things he did. I hope you understand that.

Mrs. Oswald.

I understand.

Mr. Rankin.

Could you tell us a little about when he did beat you because