Mr. Jenner.

either sought to visit him or invite him to visit you, or did an occasion arise ultimately in which you thought your acquaintance was sufficient or your interest in him or his wife or both of them was sufficient that you sought to have some social contact?

Mr. Ofstein.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

When was that?

Mr. Ofstein.

One the day that his employment terminated I told him that I hoped he found another Job and we would have to get together sometime, being he was married and I was and I believe it was approximately a week later when I wrote a letter to him inviting him and his wife to come and visit us some Saturday evening and have social activities.

Mr. Jenner.

Was there any response to that letter?

Mr. Ofstein.

No, sir; none whatsoever.

Mr. Jenner.

From, the day his employment terminated to the present, have you seen him in person?

Mr. Jenner.

From that day until the present, had you had any contact at all with him?

Mr. Ofstein.

No, sir; only my attempt at inviting him and his wife to the house.

Mr. Jenner.

Other than that circumstance?

Mr. Jenner.

How did you know where to write him?

Mr. Ofstein.

He gave me his address--post office box.

Mr. Jenner.

You made a note of it, I take it?

Mr. Jenner.

And you still have it?

Mr. Ofstein.

I believe so--yes, sir; Post Office Box 2915, Dallas, Tex.

Mr. Jenner.

Did he give you a telephone number?

Mr. Jenner.

What, if anything do .you know about Oswald's ability to operate a motor vehicle?

Mr. Jenner.

Did your acquaintance reach the point at which he talked with you some of his past history?

Mr. Jenner.

Let's start back to the time he became employed in October 1962, and you start in your own words and tell us your acquaintance with him, how that acquaintance ripened, if it did ripen, the nature of your work with him at the Jaggars Chiles-Stovall plant.

Mr. Ofstein.

Well, after he became employed," we worked more or less side by side while he was training and everything, and the contact I had with him--it was necessary to teach him how to operate the Cameras and how to opaque negatives and make clean prints and just the general work around there.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, Sticking right at that point what was-his skill and acquaintance in that connection when he first started?

Mr. Ofstein.

Well, he seemed to take a great interest in it as far as skill went---it" was, I Would say at the beginning approximately the same as anyone else's would have been.

Mr. Ofstein.

Little or none; yes, sir.

Mr. Ofstein.

He did improve somewhat, as far as I could see, but never turned out extreme quality work such as is required to leave the plant, and, of course, that is what caused the termination of his employment. It must have been about January of 1963, that---of course--at the time, he was having trouble getting along with people. He wasn't the outgoing type who tried to make friends. You had to more or less stick with him and be with him constantly to even talk to him freely. He would shove his way in places, he wouldn't, wait his turn at certain machines, and the reason I got along with him as well as I did,