Mr. Mckenzie.

Thank you, Mr. Rankin and thank you Mr. Chairman.
(Commission Exhibit No. 992 was marked for identification and received in evidence.)

Mr. Rankin.

Mrs. Oswald, will you examine the cameras of your husband and tell us which one took the pictures that showed your husband with the rifle and the pistol, as you will recall?
The pictures I am asking you about are Exhibits Nos. 133-A and 133-B which you recall are the.ones that you said in your prior testimony you took yourself.

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

With one of these cameras.

Mrs. Oswald.

This is the first and last time in my life I ever took a photograph and it was done with this gray camera.

Mr. Redlich.

Mr. Rankin, the Commission exhibit numbers of the two cameras, one is Commission Exhibit No. 136 and one is Commission Exhibit No. 750.

Mr. Mckenzie.

And the gray camera she is referring to, Mr. Rankin, for the purpose of the record is Commission Exhibit No. 750, isn't that right, Mrs. Oswald?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

That is the gray camera you just said you took pictures with, is that correct?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes. The other camera also belonged to Lee but I don't use it.

Mr. Rankin.

Turning to another subject now, Mrs. Oswald, while you and Lee Harvey Oswald were at Minsk in the Soviet Union, can you tell us how Lee Harvey Oswald spent his leisure time while he was there?

Mrs. Oswald.

I don't know how he spent his time before we were married but afterwards he was a great lover of classical music and used to go to concerts a lot, and theaters, and movies, symphony concerts, and we used to go out on the lakes around Minsk. There are some lakes in the confines of Minsk and outside where we used to go.

Mr. Rankin.

While there did he read much?

Mrs. Oswald.

He didn't read very much because there wasn't a very great choice of books in English except the ones on Marxism.

Mr. Dulles.

He could, however, read books in Russian, could he not, at this time?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes; but it was a lot of work for him and he really didn't enjoy it very much. But he did go to Russian films and understood them.

Mr. Rankin.

Did he go to the rifle club there?

Mrs. Oswald.

He belonged to a hunters--a club of hunters and had a rifle but he never went to the practice meetings of this club. He only paid his membership dues, and I think that he joined this club in order to be able to acquire a rifle because only apparently members of such hunting clubs have the right in the Soviet Union to own a rifle. Only once did he go out with a group of some of my friends and take his rifle and try and shoot some game but he didn't catch anything.

Representative Ford.

Did he buy the rifle or was it given to him?

Mrs. Oswald.

He bought it.

Representative Ford.

What did you do with it when you went to the United States?

Mrs. Oswald.

I think he sold it.

Representative Ford.

Was it a rifle of--much like the one that was used in the assassination?

Mrs. Oswald.

All rifles look alike to me.

Mr. Mckenzie.

Did it have a telescopic sight on it, Marina?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Mckenzie.

But it was similar to the same rifle that he had in the United States?

Mrs. Oswald.

No. It wasn't identical but it might have been similar, seeing as how they are both single barrel rifles. I don't understand anything about rifles at all and I really am not qualified to talk about them.

Mr. Rankin.

You mentioned that he went to the rifle club on one occasion or the hunting club on one occasion with some friends to hunt squirrels or