Have you talked about Oswald with the other maintenance men or the other men at the plant?
Mr. LE BLANC. No; I tell you, we hadn't talked very much, because we just--we left things as was.

Mr. Liebeler.

You never had any conversations with anybody that you can remember, speculating as to whether Oswald really did this or whether he was capable of it, he was that kind of a guy?
Mr. LE BLANC. Well, the most talk was around the plant a lot of times, that they thought he was actually too stupid to actually pull something like that. They didn't think he even had enough brains to pull a foolish thing like that, because that is just the kind of a person he looked to be.

Mr. Liebeler.

He didn't seem to be particularly intelligent or----
Mr. LE BLANC. No.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did he seem to be interested in his surroundings or just sort of a----
Mr. LE BLANC. Like in his greasing records, one time something could be spelled right, and just a little ways away he might have to use the same word and it would be all misspelled. I don't know whether he didn't know how to write or he just didn't care how he put it down.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you ever question him about that or indicate to him that he was misspelling words?
Mr. LE BLANC. Well, on a couple of occasions I told him if he could write plainer, it would be a lot better for me to cheek, because a lot of times if something would go wrong with a machine, we would. go to that greasing log and check when is the last time it was greased, and when you would look at his writing, it would be like Greek, you couldn't hardly understand it.

Mr. Liebeler.

What did he say about that?
Mr. LE BLANC. Well, he would look at you and turn around and walk off.

Mr. Liebeler.

He wouldn't say anything?
Mr. LE BLANC. Wouldn't say nothing. That is what used to get me. I used to---if I bawled him out about not greasing something, ordinarily a man would tell you, well, I will try to do better, or, that is the best I could do, or something like that, but that is what used to get me so mad when he would give me no answer whatsoever, and that is when I told him one day, I said, "You are going to end up driving me crazy if I am going to have to keep up with this guy, because he don't give me no answer whatsoever if I bawl him out about his job or anything."

Mr. Liebeler.

Who did you tell that to--Mr. Barbe?
Mr. LE BLANC. Well, I think it was Barbe I told that to.

Mr. Liebeler.

He is a sort of a--what engineer, plant engineer?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes; he is the plant engineer.

Mr. Liebeler.

You never mentioned to Oswald the misspellings in the words that----
Mr. LE BLANC. No; I didn't mention misspelling. I figured, well, maybe the boy can't spell so good, and I figured, well, as long as it was close, I might be able to understand it, but there was a couple of occasions he would put things down and I would have to actually ask him what it was, because it wasn't nowhere near the name that the machine would actually be.

Mr. Liebeler.

And you noticed that sometimes he would spell things right and sometimes he would just spell them wrong?
Mr. LE BLANC. Sometimes he would spell them wrong and sometimes he would spell them right. That is what I couldn't understand about him.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you ever discuss that with Mr. Barbe or anybody?
Mr. LE BLANC. No; when Mr. Barbe noticed it was the day after the assassination when the agent was there and we were trying to get all the possible information we could get off of it, you know, and that is when we got the greasing records of when he was there and went through them, and that is when he seen a lot of misspelling.

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