Mr. Liebeler.

You didn't regard him as a dangerous individual or something of that sort, did you?

Mr. Gregory.

Well, I thought he was--I did not think he was an unbalanced person or crazy person or anything like that. I would say he was sort of, I would say I thought he was sort of a peculiar person but I never thought he would do an act like that.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you ever make the acquaintance of the mother?

Mr. Gregory.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Would you tell us about that?

Mr. Gregory.

Yes. As I mentioned earlier, I teach Russian once a week at the library. We started a new series of lessons on November 12, 1963, and in my class there was a lady by the name of Marguerite Oswald. Frankly, I never connected her with Lee Oswald. Oswald was just a name to me, and I did not learn about it until the day of the assassination. Or the next day, the next day, that she was his mother.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did Mrs. Oswald call you on the telephone at any time after the assassination?

Mr. Gregory.

Yes. She called me--

Mr. Liebeler.

Tell us about it?

Mr. Gregory.

Sunday morning, November 24, about 7 o'clock in the morning, from Dallas.

Representative Ford.

This is the mother called?

Mr. Gregory.

The mother. Sunday morning about 7 o'clock in the morning, and she said, I still remember, she said, "Mr. Gregory, I need your help. The reporters, the news media were badgering me." I think that is the word she used. She said, "I wonder if some of your friends or you could provide a place for me to hide from them."And it sounded like she was crying on the telephone, although I think that woman is not taken to crying.
So I told her--she did not want to identify herself when she called me first. I asked her, I said, "Who are you?" And she said, "I would rather not tell you who I am but I shall identify myself by saying I am one of the students in the Russian class in the library." Of course, I knew it was Mrs. Oswald. In fact, I guessed who she was before she even tried to identify herself. So I told her, I said, "Now, I will tell you what I will do, Mrs. Oswald, you stay where you are and I will promise to you that I will come to see you sometime today." Of course, I knew where she was because the Secret Service told me where they had her before.

Mr. Liebeler.

The Secret Service contacted you the day before?

Mr. Gregory.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

On Saturday?

Mr. Gregory.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Isn't it a fact they had asked you to come and translate an interview with Marina Oswald?

Mr. Gregory.

That is correct.

Mr. Liebeler.

But you didn't do it because you didn't need to do it that day?

Mr. Gregory.

No, sir.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you see Lee Oswald that day?

Mr. Gregory.

No, I did not see him.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you later on Sunday go to see Mrs. Marguerite Oswald?

Mr. Gregory.

Yes. As soon as I hung up the phone, I was talking to Marguerite Oswald, I called the U.S. Secret Service and reported this call, of course, and an agent, I called Agent Howard, who lives just north of Fort Worth, and he said, "Well, that is fine, we will find a hiding place for her, for Marguerite and Marina Oswald and the babies," and he suggested he come by my house in a matter of 45 minutes or an hour and we will go to Dallas and then proceed from there. And that is what we did then. We went to Dallas.

Mr. Liebeler.

You went to the Executive Inn where Marina and Mrs. Oswald were staying at that time, is that right?

Mr. Gregory.

Yes, sir; we went to the Executive Inn, and on the way we stopped en route on the turnpike, where the agents arranged a rendezvous with Robert Oswald and other agents, and we went to the Executive Inn in Dallas by the airport, and Robert and I went in and we told the women to pack up, that