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(Testimony of Henry Wade)
Mr. Wade.
No; I don't have anything. The thing about it is this was taken, this was on television and radio and all the networks. They had everything there set up and that is the only--that is the first of, I think, three times I was interviewed, but it was Friday night around between 12 and 1 o'clock. It was actually Saturday morning between 12 and 1.
Mr. Rankin.
So there were a number of networks, possibly, and a number of the radio stations and television stations from the whole area?
Mr. Wade.
The whole area and it actually wasn't set up for an interview with me. It was an interview, what I thought, with Fritz and Carry, and I thought I would stay for it, but when they got into the interviewing, I don't know what happened to them but they weren't there. They had left, or I was the one who was answering the questions about things I didn't know much about, to tell you the truth.
Has that got it cleared? Can I go to the next morning?
I will try to go a little and not forget anything.
The next morning I went to my office, probably, say, 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Waiting there for me was Robert Oswald, who was the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald. You probably have met him, but I believe his name is Robert is his brother.
I talked to him about an hour.
Mr. Rankin.
What did you say to him and what did he say to you?
Mr. Wade.
Well, we discussed the history of Lee Harvey Oswald and the one of the purposes he came to me, he wanted his mother, Oswald's mother, and wife and him to see Oswald.
Mr. Rankin.
Did he say this to you?
Mr. Wade.
Yes; but we had already set it up, somebody, I don't know whether my office or the police, but he was set up to see him that morning at 11 o'clock, I believe, or 12 o'clock, some time.
Mr. Rankin.
Did you do anything about it?
Mr. Wade.
Yes, sir; I checked to see if it was arranged. I called Captain Fritz and told him that he wanted to see him, and he said they were going to let him see him. I don't know. I don't know the name, but it was either 11 o'clock or 12 o'clock Saturday morning.
I don't know whether he had requested or not, but that was the first time I had seen him. I don't know why he came to my office, but I used it to try to go into Lee Harvey Oswald's background some, and I also told him that there is a lot involved in this thing from a national point of view, and I said, "You appear to be a good citizen," which he did appear to me, "and I think you will render your country a great service if you will go up and tell Oswald to tell us all about the thing." That was part of the deal of my working for a statement from Oswald which didn't pan out, of course. Because I was going to interview Oswald Sunday afternoon when we got him into the county jail and I was going to attempt to get a statement from him.
Mr. Rankin.
Did Robert tell you anything about Lee Harvey Oswald's background at that time?
Mr. Wade.
He told me about in Europe, how in Russia, how they had had very little correspondence with them and he wrote to them renouncing or telling them he wanted to renounce his American citizenship and didn't want to have anything else to do with him. He said later that one of the letters changed some, I mean back, and then he said he was coming home, coming back and he had married and kind of his general history of the thing and he came back and I believe stayed with this Robert in Fort Worth for 2, 3, or 4 months. Now I say this is from memory, like I don't have and they had helped him some, and said that Marina, the thing that impressed her was most your super-markets, I think, more than anything else in this country, your A. & P. and the big, I guess you call them, supermarkets or whatever they are.
And he told me something about him going to New Orleans, but I gathered that they were not too close. I believe he told me this, that he hadn't seen him in close to a year prior to this, or a good while.
Now, it seemed to me like it was a year, and he said their families, they didn't have anything in common much, and he said, of course I said "Do you think"--
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