Mr. Liebeler.

Did Oswald ever indicate an intention to join the National Rifle Association?

Mr. Alba.

None.

Mr. Liebeler.

In connection with this carbine that you had ordered from the National Rifle Association, you indicated that he had expressed an interest in buying that weapon from you? Is that correct?

Mr. Alba.

He had an interest very much, and after I told him that I wouldn't sell the gun, and I had mentioned that I was getting the gun for approximately $35 through the N.R.A. and that this same gun on the market would sell from $75 to $100, and he had made the expression that if and when "you get the carbine, should you decide to sell it, I would make it worthwhile for you to sell the gun."

Mr. Liebeler.

But he never spoke of joining the N.R.A. in order to obtain a carbine such as this himself?

Mr. Liebeler.

Did he ask you how much it cost to join the National Rifle Association?

Mr. Alba.

No; he didn't.

Mr. Liebeler.

You didn't tell him?

Mr. Liebeler.

How much does it cost?

Mr. Liebeler.

$5?

Mr. Alba.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you go through these various gun magazines and sporting magazines that Oswald had looked at? You went through them after the assassination, is that correct?

Mr. Alba.

Had I gone through these magazines that Lee Oswald had borrowed from me?

Mr. Liebeler.

Yes.

Mr. Alba.

And had I gone through them since the assassination?

Mr. Liebeler.

Yes.

Mr. Alba.

Since the assassination the FBI and the secret service took the magazines off, and I have not received them since.

Mr. Liebeler.

But you had read these magazines or gone-through them prior to the time that Oswald looked at them?

Mr. Alba.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Then you left them in your office and Oswald borrowed some and brought them back?

Mr. Alba.

Well, we have a coffee urn and a coke machine and some chairs in there, and a coffee table, and on the coffee table I would say that I had approximately anywhere from 80 to 120 magazines.

Mr. Liebeler.

And you didn't go through them after the assassination and prior to the time that the FBI and the Secret Service removed them from your office?

Mr. Alba.

Would you repeat the----

Mr. Liebeler.

You didn't go through any of these magazines that Oswald had looked at after the assassination and prior to the time that the FBI and the Secret Service had removed them from your office, is that correct?

Mr. Alba.

None other than my most current issues that I had recently received in the mail, such as the National Rifle magazine or "Guns and Ammo" edition----

Mr. Liebeler.

Those magazines wouldn't have been at Lee Oswald's disposal because they would have come in after the time he had been there?

Mr. Alba.

That is correct.

Mr. Liebeler.

Can you tell whether or not the magazine that Oswald read, of the assassination, or at the time the FBI came and-took-the magazines from you?

Mr. Alba.

Lee Oswald borrowed the magazines and requested permission to take one or two off at a time, and kept them anywhere from 3 days week, and would make the point of letting me know that he was returning them.