Mr. Dulles.

Mr. McKENZIE Yes, sir.

Mr. Dulles.

In order to get the full purport, flavor of this particular line of interrogation.

Mr. Mckenzie.

I couldn't concur more, Mr. Dulles----

Mr. Dulles.

We will leave it then to your discretion with Mr. Rankin to decide what letters should go in, in connection with his testimony.

Mr. Mckenzie.

I might add in that regard, Mr. Chairman, that I have no objection, whatsoever to any or all of the letters going into the record.

Mr. Dulles.

Thank you.

Mr. Jenner.

They are already in the record. But you mean set forth in full in the record.

Mr. Mckenzie.

I would mark right now the spot in the record following the Chairman's remarks and my concurrence and, of course, Mr. Jenner's suggestion that the letter be in its entirety placed in the record, I would mark that place now so that it could go in at this spot.

Mr. Jenner.

Also the letter of November 8. And November 26 letter.

Mr. Jenner.

Proceed, Mr. Oswald.

Mr. Oswald.

I do not recall any other statements that I would have replied to, or did reply to, in my reply to his letter of November 26, 1959.

Mr. Jenner.

All right, sir.
Now, did you receive any direct response to your letter, and your next letter is Commission Exhibit No. 296, sometime during the summer of 1959, it is a short one-page letter.

Mr. Oswald.

This is December, 1959, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

No, it is in the summer of 1959, isn't it, or is that the one-page letter which you had written December 17, 1959.

Mr. Oswald.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

And is that the next letter you received from your brother?

Mr. Oswald.

That is correct, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

Is there any reference in that letter to the response you made to the November 26 letter?

Mr. Oswald.

No, sir. There is not.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you receive any subsequent letter in which he made any direct response to your long letter which you wrote him in response to the letter of November 26?

Mr. Oswald.

No, sir, he did not, and if I might say I wrote earlier and as a reminder to myself that I was concerned at the time I received the letter of December 17, 1959.

Mr. Jenner.

That is Commission Exhibit 297.

Mr. Oswald.

That Lee did not have time to receive my reply to his letter of November 26, 1959.

Mr. Jenner.

I see.
Then the next letter you received, at least in the series you have produced, is May 5, 1961, a two-page letter, Commission Exhibit 298.

Mr. Oswald.

Could I have that date again, please, sir?

Mr. Jenner.

May 5, 1961.

Mr. Oswald.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

He makes no response in that letter to your response to his letter of November 26.

Mr. Oswald.

No, sir, he does not. Perhaps, sir, the only way that I can be aware that he received my letter in reply to November 26 letter, to his letter of November 26, 1959, I did enclose one photograph of my daughter Cathy Marie Oswald at the age of 2 years old in that letter.

Mr. Jenner.

In your response to his letter of November 26?

Mr. Oswald.

Yes, sir; and at a later date Lee was to tell me that he did keep this photograph, so he did receive my letter.

Mr. Jenner.

Would you repeat what you just said, sir, or would you read it, Mr. Reporter?
(The reporter read the answer.)

Mr. Jenner.

You said Lee was to tell you, did you mean by that expression that he actually acknowledged receipt of the photograph?

Mr. Oswald.

Yes, sir, he did.