Mr. Rankin.

Did he show you a picture of the Walker house then?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

That was after the shooting?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes. He had a book---he had a notebook in which he noted down quite a few details. It was all in English, I didn't read it. But I noticed the photograph. Sometimes he would lock himself in his room and write in the book. I thought that he was writing some other kind of memoirs, as he had written about his life in the Soviet Union.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you ever read that book?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know of anything else he had in it besides this Walker house picture?

Mrs. Oswald.

No. Photographs and notes, and I think there was a map in there.

Mr. Rankin.

There was a map of the area where the Walker house was?

Mrs. Oswald.

It was a map of Dallas, but I don't know where Walker lived. Sometimes evenings he would be busy with this. Perhaps he was calculating something, but I don't know. He had a bus schedule and computed something.
After this had happened, people thought that he had a car, but he had been using a bus.

Mr. Rankin.

Did he explain to you about his being able to use a bus just as well as other people could use a car---something of that kind?

Mrs. Oswald.

No. Simply as a passenger. He told me that even before that time he had gone also to shoot, but he had returned. I don't know why.
Because on the day that he did fire, there was a church across the street and there were many people there, and it was easier to merge in the crowd and not be noticed.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you ask him about this note that he had left, what he meant by it?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes--he said he had in mind that if in case he were arrested, I would know what to do.

Mr. Rankin.

The note doesn't say anything about Walker, does it?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you ask him if that is what he meant by the note?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes, because as soon as he came home I showed him the note and asked him "What is the meaning of this?"

Mr. Rankin.

And that is when he gave you the explanation about the Walker shooting?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.
I know that on a Sunday he took the rifle, but I don't think he fired on a Sunday. Perhaps this was on Friday. So Sunday he left and took the rifle.

Mr. Rankin.

If the Walker shooting was on Wednesday, does that refresh your memory as to the day of the week at all?

Mrs. Oswald.

Refresh my memory as to what?

Mr. Rankin.

As to the day of the shooting?

Mrs. Oswald.

It was in the middle of the week.

Mr. Rankin.

Did he give any further explanation of what had happened that evening?

Mrs. Oswald.

When he fired, he did not know whether he had hit Walker or not. He didn't take the bus from there. He ran several kilometers and then took the bus. And he turned on the radio and listened, but there were no reports.
The next day he bought a paper and there he read it was only chance that saved Walker's life. If he had not moved, he might have been killed.

Mr. Rankin.

Did he comment on that at all?

Mrs. Oswald.

He said only that he had taken very good aim, that it was just chance that caused him to miss. He was very sorry that he had not hit him.
I asked him to give me his word that he would not repeat anything like that. I said that this chance shows that he must live and that he should not be shot at again. I told him that I would save the note and that if something like that