Mr. Rankin.

That is all.

The Chairman.

Congressman Ford, do you have some matters?

Mrs. Oswald.

I would like to know if the Commission wants me to make some comment on any differences in substance between the manuscript and the testimony which I have given, or between the manuscript or the translation, whichever translation may be accepted, or both.

The Chairman.

The Commission will ask the questions, if there is anything of that nature. Now, Congressman Ford, do you have some questions?

Representative Ford.

Yes, Mr. Chief Justice, I have a few questions. In the Soviet Union, when a marriage application is applied for, what are the steps that you take?

Mrs. Oswald.

There are certain applications which have to be filled out by the boy and girl.

Representative Ford.

Do you have to go down together to make the application?

Mrs. Oswald.

It is necessary for both to appear with their passports and fill out this application.

Representative Ford.

In other words, Lee Harvey Oswald had to take his passport down to--at the time that he applied for a marriage application?

Mrs. Oswald.

Lee Oswald did not have his passport at the time since it was in the American Embassy. He went with his residence permission to the office. But our marriage was entered into his American passport after we were married and before we left the Soviet Union for the United States.

Representative Ford.

So it is not the passport in the sense that we think of a passport, that we get to travel to a foreign country?

Mrs. Oswald.

Since most marriages are concluded between Soviet citizens, they only present their internal passports to the marriage license bureau. But if there is a marriage between a Soviet citizen and a foreigner, he presents his residence permission and his foreign passport, also, if he has one. If he doesn't have it, the residence permission is enough.

Representative Ford.

Do we have the document that he presented at the time he applied for marriage?

Mrs. Oswald.

I don't know. I think he had to turn that in before he left the Soviet Union.

Mr. Mckenzie.

Are you referring to his American passport?

Representative Ford.

No; I am referring to the document that he presented at the time he applied for marriage.

Mr. Mckenzie.

Which would be a Russian instrument?

Representative Ford.

Right.

Mrs. Oswald.

I don't know if it is available. I think he had to turn it in before he left the Soviet Union.

Representative Ford.

In other words, both you and Lee Harvey Oswald signed the necessary documents for marriage?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Representative Ford.

During your period in Minsk, following your marriage, did you and Lee Harvey Oswald have any marital difficulties, any problems between the two of you?

Mrs. Oswald.

We had some difficulties in connection with the fact that I told my uncle and aunt that we were going to leave for the United States. Lee did not want me to tell anybody that we were preparing to leave for the United States.

Representative Ford.

That was the only difficulty you had?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Representative Ford.

Was your vacation, trip to Kharkov--was that a vacation, or did that result from any marital difficulty?

Mrs. Oswald.

My aunt invited me to Kharkov, and that is why I went. It was not the result of any marital difficulties.

Representative Ford.

You testified a few minutes ago, Mrs. Oswald, that there was a difference in the historic diary and what Lee Oswald told you concerning the status of his application for Soviet citizenship. You have read the historic diary?

Mrs. Oswald.

I have only read what the FBI agents translated, those parts of the diary which were translated into Russian by the FBI.