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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XI - Page 298« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald Resumed)

Mrs. Oswald.
George Bouhe told me that if I wanted to leave Lee, he would help me at first, provided I would not go back to Lee. Bouhe did not interfere into my and Lee's affairs, but he wanted to know if I wanted to leave him permanently, he would help me. He told me that if I wanted to leave him for good, then he would help me out, but not if I would go back to him because the second time nobody would help me.
Mr. Liebeler.
Now, in fact, you did later go back to Lee; didn't you?
Mrs. Oswald.
Yes; he's my husband.
Mr. Liebeler.
And it is also a fact that when you did, George Bouhe was displeased--unhappy?
Mrs. Oswald.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
And in fact he even asked you to give back to him the dictionary that he had given you; didn't he?
Mrs. Oswald.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
And he helped you no more after that?
Mrs. Oswald.
That's correct.
Mr. Liebeler.
George De Mohrenschildt recalls this Sunday morning differently-he said that he came there with his wife and that you were still at the apartment with Lee, and that he and his wife came in and told Lee that they were going to take you away because he had been beating you in the past, and that he convinced you to leave and that you all left then that Sunday morning and he took you over to Meller's. He does not say you had previously gone to Meller's.
Mrs. Oswald.
That's not so. I was not at the apartment with Lee. I came that Sunday with the De Mohrenschildts to the apartment. I was at Anna Meller's and George De Mohrenschildt told me to be at his house at a certain hour, 10 o'clock, or sometime, and that Lee will come to his house, and Anna Meller took me. George Bouhe came to Anna Meller's and took me to George De Mohrenschildt's house and Lee came to De Mohrenschildt's house in a bus.

Lee came to De Mohrenschildt's house on a bus.
Mr. Liebeler.
Was this the same Sunday?
Mrs. Oswald.
That same Sunday.
Mr. Mckenzie.
Later in the day?
Mrs. Oswald.
Ten o'clock or eleven.
Mr. Mckenzie.
And before you went to the apartment?
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. Mckenzie.
Did Lee and Mrs. De Mohrenschildt and George De Mohrenschildt go to the apartment together in George De Mohrenschildt's car?
Mrs. Oswald.
I do not remember right now whether Lee left after this confrontation at De Mohrenschildt's house, whether Lee left first or whether we all left De Mohrenschildt's house together, but I do remember distinctly that I went in the car with George De Mohrenschildt and his wife. I did not go with Lee and so it is impossible that they came later.
Mr. Liebeler.
What happened at De Mohrenschildt's house this morning--what was said there?
Mrs. Oswald.
De Mohrenschildt was telling Lee that that was not the way to treat his wife and Lee begged me to stay with him.
Mr. Liebeler.
Was De Mohrenschildt's wife there at this time?
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
How did the meeting at De Mohrenschildt's house end; do you remember?
Mrs. Oswald.
I did not agree to go back with Lee and either Lee left by the bus first, or, I don't remember it clearly what happened.
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; I don't know what happened--I don't remember if Lee goes with us or if he goes first.
Mr. Liebeler.
But you do remember that Lee was at the apartment on Elsbeth Street when you went there to get the clothes and things for the baby?
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
When you came there, did he just help you load the things up?
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
He didn't seem to be angry about anything?
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes; he was angry. That's why he helped me.
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