Mrs. Oswald.

Could I ask the Commission just when we were living on Elsbeth Street, since I have forgotten?

Mr. Redlich.

November 1962 to March 1963. November 3, 1962 to March 2, 1963.

Mrs. Oswald.

I think it was at the end of January, it was after New Years. I think he had a map all the time, but he started becoming particularly occupied with it at the end of January 1963.

Mr. Dulles.

1963?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Dulles.

Did Oswald, to your knowledge, have friends, associates, other men whom he saw, in addition to the considerable number whom you have described as your friends in Dallas and Fort Worth, whom you have already described? Did he have any business friends or any other friends you can think of that used to come to the house?

Mrs. Oswald.

No one, except for my friends whom I have already told you about.

Mr. Dulles.

That is all I have, Mr. Chief Justice.

The Chairman.

Congressman, did you have any more?

Mr. Dulles.

I was speaking of the United States.

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes; he told me that he was working on this map in connection with the bus schedules. He had a kind of bus schedule, and--a paper with bus schedules on it, and he was somehow comparing them or working on them, or doing something with these two documents.

The Chairman.

Congressman Ford?

Representative Ford.

When you left the Soviet Union, Lee borrowed money from the U.S. Government, to pay for your transportation back to the United States. Did you have any other money of your own at that time?

Mrs. Oswald.

We had--it is permissible to exchange a certain amount of Soviet rubles into American dollars in such cases, and we did exchange some Soviet rubles--I think about $180 worth--when we left. But that wasn't enough to pay the whole trip.

Representative Ford.

Lee had borrowed from the Government approximately $600?

Mr. Rankin.

$450, and then the exchange made a total of $600 and something.

Representative Ford.

This $180 was used with the State Department money for the transportation and the funds for the trip?

Mrs. Oswald.

I don't know, since my husband took care of that whole matter. He never talked about money with me.
Representative FORD. Would you describe one of the border crossings? What did the Government officials do when you went from Poland into Germany, for example? Tell us what actually happened.

Mrs. Oswald.

The train stopped and people come in and check your documents. On the Russian border, of course, people come in and look at your bags--that is to say, they don't rifle through everything, but they pick things at random and look at them.

Representative Ford.

Did Lee carry all the documents?

Mrs. Oswald.

He carried all the documents, since I had the baby to look after.

Representative Ford.

At the Polish-German border, did they actually examine the documents?

Mrs. Oswald.

More carefully between Russia and Poland than between Poland and Germany.

Representative Ford.

Did Lee make any acquaintances on the train and the boat?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Representative Ford.

Did----

Mrs. Oswald.

On the boat there were two Rumanian girls we talked with, since I had studied a little bit of Moldavian before, which is similar to Russian, and could speak a little. And on that basis we met and talked a little.

Representative Ford.

Did George De Mohrenschildt at any time take you any place from the Elsbeth Street residence?

Mrs. Oswald.

Only to his house.

Representative Ford.

Did Lee accompany you at that time?