Mr. Rankin.

Did Mrs. Paine have anything to do with your husband getting this job at the depository?

Mrs. Oswald.

She had no direct connection with it, but an indirect connection, of course. I lived with her and she talked to a neighbor and mentioned that Lee was out of work.

Mr. Rankin.

Was it Mrs. Paine that found out about the job, then?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes. And she telephoned there and asked whether they had a job available. They didn't say anything specific but they asked that Lee come there on the following day.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you find out whether your husband did go there the following day?

Mrs. Oswald.

On the following day he went there, had a talk with them, and he telephoned that he had already received the job.

Mr. Rankin.

Did he telephone to you or to Mrs. Paine about getting the job?

Mrs. Oswald.

He telephoned me. But, of course, he thanked Ruth.

Mr. Rankin.

And when did he start on the job? Was there two or three days before he got the job and started, or more than that?

Mrs. Oswald.

I think that he started on the day following being accepted for the job. I think it was either on the 14th, 15th, or 16th of October.

Mr. Rankin.

When he was staying at Mrs. Bledsoe's rooming house, did he call you and give you the number there?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you recall where he was when he gave this fictitious name?

Mrs. Oswald.

What do you mean where he was? From where he telephoned?

Mr. Rankin.

Yes, or the number that he gave you--that is the rooming house that he was at when he used this fictitious name, and you told us you called there.

Mrs. Oswald.

He lived at first in one place, and then he changed. It was the last place where he had given a fictitious name. I don't know what name he lived under in the first place, because I never telephoned him.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know the name that he lived under in the second place, when you did call him?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

You don't remember the fictitious name that he gave you?

Mrs. Oswald.

I read in the paper after everything happened, but at that time I didn't know. He said that his last name was Lee. He didn't say that. I read that in the paper.

Mr. Rankin.

Did that remind you, then, that that was the name they gave you when you called and he answered the telephone?

Mrs. Oswald.

No, No one told me anything. I didn't know under what name he lived there.

Mr. Rankin.

But you found out that he was not living under his own name, is that what you meant before?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

After he got his job, did he return the next weekend to see you?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you remember whether that time he returned was on Friday or Saturday?

Mrs. Oswald.

It was on Friday, October 18. It was his birthday. He stopped with Ruth. On Sunday I went to the hospital, and he stayed overnight from Monday until Tuesday.

Mr. Rankin.

After your husband returned from Mexico, did you examine the rifle in the garage at any time?

Mrs. Oswald.

I had never examined the rifle in the garage. It was wrapped in a blanket and was lying on the floor.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you ever check to see whether the rifle was in the blanket?

Mrs. Oswald.

I never checked to see that. There was only once that 1 was interested in finding out what was in that blanket, and I saw that it was a rifle.

Mr. Rankin.

When was that?

Mrs. Oswald.

About a week after I came from New Orleans.

Mr. Rankin.

And then you found that the rifle was in the blanket, did you?