Mr. Rankin.

Did you have a membership booklet?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes, a booklet,

Mr. Rankin.

I hand you Exhibit 21 and ask you if that is the trade union booklet that you had there.

Mrs. Oswald.

I never have a good photograph.

Mr. Rankin.

I offer in evidence Exhibit 21.

The Chairman.

It may be admitted and take the next number.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 21 and received in evidence.)

Mr. Rankin.

Did you pay dues to the trade union?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

We didn't notice any notation of dues payments in this booklet, Exhibit 21. Do you know why that was?

Mrs. Oswald.

I forgot to paste the stamps in.

Mr. Rankin.

That is for the period between 1956 and 1959, they don't seem to be in there.

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

But you made the payments--you just didn't put the stamps in, is that right?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes. Simply because this is not important. I got the stamps, but the stubs remained with the person to whom I made the payment.

Mr. Rankin.

We noted that the book shows a birth date of 1940 rather than 1941. Do you know how that happened?

Mrs. Oswald.

The girl who prepared this booklet thought that I was older and put down 1940 instead of 1941.

Mr. Rankin.

The booklet doesn't seem to show any registration in Minsk. Do you know why that would occur?

Mrs. Oswald.

Because the booklet was issued in Leningrad.

Mr. Rankin.

Is it the practice to record a registration in a city that you move to, or isn't that a practice that is followed?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

Did your husband engage in any Communist Party activities while he was in the Soviet Union?

Mrs. Oswald.

Not at all--absolutely not.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know whether he was a member of any organization there?

Mrs. Oswald.

I think that he was also a member of a trade union, as everybody who works belongs to a trade union. Then he had a card from a hunting club, but he never visited it. He joined the club, apparently.

Mr. Rankin.

Did he go hunting while he was there?

Mrs. Oswald.

We only went once, with him and with my friends.

Mr. Rankin.

Was that when he went hunting for squirrels?

Mrs. Oswald.

If he marked it down in his notebook that he went hunting for squirrels, he never did. Generally they wanted to kill a squirrel when we went there, or some sort of a bird, in order to boast about it, but they didn't.

Mr. Rankin.

Were there any times while he was in the Soviet Union after your marriage that you didn't know where he went?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

When did you first learn that he was planning to try to go back to the United States?

Mrs. Oswald.

After we were married, perhaps a month after.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you discuss the matter at that time?

Mrs. Oswald.

We didn't discuss it--we talked about it because we didn't make any specific plans.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you recall what you said about it then?

Mrs. Oswald.

I said, "Well, if we will go, we will go. If we remain, it doesn't make any difference to me. If we go to China, I will also go."

Mr. Rankin.

Did you and your husband make a trip to Moscow in connection with your plans to go to the United States?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes. We went to the American Embassy.

Mr. Rankin.

Did your husband make a trip to Moscow alone before that? About his passport?