Mr. Liebeler.

of President Kennedy. I have been authorized to take your testimony by the Commission, pursuant to authority granted to the Commission by Executive Order 11130 dated November 29, 1963, and joint resolution of Congress No. 137.
Under the rules of the Commission, you are entitled to have an attorney present, if you wish one. You are also entitled to 3 days' notice of the hearing, and you are not required to answer any question that you think might incriminate you or might violate some other privilege you may have. I think the Secret Service did call you, or Martha Joe Stroud, here in the U.S. attorney's office, called you and gave you notice.

Mrs. Odio.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you wish to have an attorney present?

Mrs. Odio.

No; I don't think so.

Mr. Liebeler.

We want to ask you some questions about the possibility that you saw Lee Harvey Oswald.

Mrs. Odio.

Before you start, let me give you a letter of my father's which he wrote me from prison. You can have it. It was very funny, because at the time he wrote it, the FBI incident happened a week later. I told my father this man had been in my house and he introduced himself as your friend; and he wrote me back in December telling me that such people were not his friends, and he said not to receive anybody in my house, and not any of them were his friends, and he didn't know those people. At the time I did give the names of one or two, and he wrote back, "I actually don't know who they are."

Mr. Liebeler.

Let's come to this during the course of the questioning, but I am glad you brought it up. I do want to get to it, because it may help us determine who these people were.

Mrs. Odio.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

First of all, would you tell us where you were born?

Mrs. Odio.

In Havana, Cuba.

Mr. Liebeler.

Approximately when?

Mrs. Odio.

1937.

Mr. Liebeler.

How long did you live in Cuba?

Mrs. Odio.

Until, well, I studied in the United States, so I mean--you mean my whole life until--it was 1960.

Mr. Liebeler.

1960?

Mrs. Odio.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Then you left Cuba and came to the United States, is that correct?

Mrs. Odio.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Where did you come to in the United States?

Mrs. Odio.

We first came to Miami, and we stayed there just a few days and left for Ponce, Puerto Rico, and we stayed there 2 years.

Mr. Liebeler.

Then from Ponce, did you come to Dallas?

Mrs. Odio.

From Ponce, I came straight to Dallas last year, March of last year.

Mr. Liebeler.

So that you have been in Dallas since March of 1963, is that correct?

Mrs. Odio.

That's right.

Mr. Liebeler.

You indicated that you had gone to school in the United States. Where?

Mrs. Odio.

Eden Hall Convent of The Sacred Heart, in Philadelphia.

Mr. Liebeler.

How long did you go to school there?

Mrs. Odio.

Three years.

Mr. Liebeler.

That is what, high school?

Mrs. Odio.

That's right. From 1951 to 1954.

Mr. Liebeler.

Was that period of 3 years the only time you were in the United States prior to the time that you came to Dallas in March of 1963? The only time in the United States over any extended period of time?

Mrs. Odio.

Excuse me, when I got married in 1957, I stayed 8 months--9 months in New Orleans.

Mr. Liebeler.

So that you lived in the United States for 9 months in 1956? Mrs. ODIO. That's right.