Will you rise and raise your right hand.
Do you solemnly swear that the testimony that you are going to translate of Mrs. Oswald will be truly translated?

Mr. Gregory.

To the best of my knowledge and ability, so help me God.

Mr. Rankin.

Mr. Gopadze, have you been sworn as a translator in these proceedings?

Mr. Gopadze.

No, sir.

Mr. Rankin.

Will you rise, please?
Do you solemnly swear that your translation of anything of the testimony Mrs. Oswald will be true and correct, to the best of your knowledge?

Mr. Gopadze.

I do.

Mr. Rankin.

Thank you. Mrs. Oswald, we're going to ask you rather informally a number of questions about matters that have come up that we would like to get your testimony about. Senator Russell will start, then Senator Cooper will have some, and then I'll have a few I would like to ask you about, and Representative Boggs will have some.

Representative Boggs.

I suggest we designate Senator Russell as chairman of this meeting.

Mr. Rankin.

Will you record Senator Russell, Miss Reporter, as the chairman of the meeting, please?
The REPORTER. Yes, sir.
Dean STOREY. This is Miss Oliver. She is the reporter to Judge Hughes, a Federal judge here.

Mr. Rankin.

Yes; we know her well by her reporting in other matters for us.
Senator RUSSELL. Mrs. Oswald, there may be some repetition in what we say, in the testimony that was taken in Washington, because, I among others, could not attend that hearing, so you will understand if we ask questions that are similar to those that were asked of you when you were in Washington on other occasions. *
We will try to avoid any more of that than we can help.
I have read all of your testimony. I don't mean that I recall all of it, but I read it, as well as your memoirs that were submitted to the Commission.
When you first met Lee Oswald, did he ever mention anything about politics or his political philosophy?*
*MRS. OSWALD. No.
Senator RUSSELL. Did you ever ask him his reason for coming to Russia?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. Not the first evening when we got acquainted.
Senator RUSSELL. Prior to the time that you were married to him, did you ask him his reasons for coming to Russia?*
*MRS. OSWALD. Yes.
Senator RUSSELL. Why did he say that he had come to Russia?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. He told me that the Soviet Union is the outstanding Communist country and he wanted to see it with his own eyes.
Senator RUSSELL. Well, I notice in your testimony that you said that his memoirs insofar as he claimed that he wished to be a citizen of the Soviet Union were erroneous?*
In other words, I want to continue the statement so there won't be any confusion---I'm not trying to trap her. But that he told you that he had been offered citizenship in the Soviet Union and had declined?* **
**MRS. OSWALD. Yes.
*Yes, that's what he said to me.
Senator RUSSELL. Did he give any reasons why he declined citizenship in the Soviet Union?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. The reason he gave me for declining to become a Soviet citizen was because he said that in case he did not like the way they do things in the Soviet Union, it would be easier for him to leave the country than if he did become a citizen.
Senator RUSSELL. After you were married to Lee, did he complain about the way they did things in the Soviet Union?* **

Mrs. Oswald.

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