Representative Ford.

Was that much of it or a small part of it?

Mrs. Oswald.

It was the part about his attempt at suicide.

Representative Ford.

And also the part concerning the status of his Soviet citizenship?

Mrs. Oswald.

I think that that is the part which deals with his application for Soviet citizenship. I don't know of any other parts of the diary in which this would be set forth.

Representative Ford.

You have no idea of when he wrote the historic diary?

Mrs. Oswald.

I don't know when he began, but I know that after we were married he spent the evenings writing his diary. I think that is the reason why he didn't want me to study English while we were still in Russia, because he didn't want me to be able to read his diary.

Representative Ford.

He never read you the diary in Russian?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Representative Ford.

On the trip back to the United States, Lee Oswald wrote on the Holland-American Line paper some additional comments. Did you see him write this on the trip?

Mrs. Oswald.

I saw him writing this when we were in the cabin on the ship. I thought they were just letters, though, and I didn't read them. He didn't write these when I was around.

Representative Ford.

He didn't write them while you were present?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Redlich.

I might mention for the record that this document has already been introduced as Commission Exhibit No. 25.

Representative Ford.

If you didn't see him write it in the cabin how did you know he wrote it?

Mrs. Oswald.

In the first place, because the paper was from the Holland-American Line, and then I think--in the second place, because I saw these pages covered with writing in the cabin, and I think that he must have gone some place else on the ship, such as the library, to do the actual writing.

Representative Ford.

Have you read that which he wrote on the ship?

Mrs. Oswald.

No; I have not read them, because I don't understand English.

Representative Ford.

He never read it to you in Russian?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Representative Ford.

At any time on the trip back, from the time you started to leave the Soviet Union until you arrived in the United States, did you have any trouble at the border of the Soviet Union or any other country?

Mrs. Oswald.

We had no difficulty with the authorities of any kind on any border. I think that my husband may have had some financial difficulties in New York, when he arrived.

Representative Ford.

You left the Soviet Union by what means, now?

Mrs. Oswald.

Train and boat.

Representative Ford.

You went from the Soviet Union to Poland by train?

Mrs. Oswald.

We took a train from Moscow to Amsterdam, through Poland and Germany.

Representative Ford.

You had no difficulty going into Poland, going through Germany?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Representative Ford.

Or into Holland?

Mrs. Oswald.

No. And there were no difficulties in our entering the United States, either.

Representative Ford.

When you were living at Elsbeth Street, did you and Lee have any domestic trouble?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Representative Ford.

Could you relate how frequently and how serious they were?

Mrs. Oswald.

The first difficulty we had was at Elsbeth Street when I told the landlady that I was from Russia. My husband had told her that I was from Czechoslovakia, and he became very angry with me for telling her I was from Russia, and said that I talked too much.

Representative Ford.

That was the first incident?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.