*Mrs. OSWALD. Written to Lee and to me.
Senator RUSSELL. I see, but it's strange about your family that you didn't hear from them when you had written to them?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. It is strange and it's hurtful.
Senator RUSSELL. Mrs. Oswald, I believe you testified that Lee didn't ever discuss political matters with you very much?
*Mrs. OSWALD. He discussed politics with me very little.
Senator RUSSELL. And that when he was discussing political matters with Mr. Paine and Mr. De Mohrenschildt and others, that you didn't pay any attention, that they didn't address any of it to you, that they discussed it between themselves?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; I did not participate in those conversations.
Senator RUSSELL. And that he didn't discuss a great many things about his work and things of that kind with you?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. The only time he discussed his work with me was when he worked for a printing company. He told me that he liked that job.
Senator RUSSELL. Why do you suppose he told you about the fact that he was going to shoot Mr. Nixon and had shot at General Walker?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. As regards General Walker, he came home late. He left me a note and so that is the reason why he discussed the Walker affair with me.
*Now, in regard to Mr. Nixon, he got dressed up in his suit and he put a gun in his belt.
Senator RUSSELL. You testified in his belt--I was going to ask about that, because that was a very unusual place to carry a gun. Usually, he would carry it in his coat. Did you ever see him have a gun in his belt before?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; I would have noticed it if he did.
Senator RUSSELL. You wouldn't have noticed it?
*Mrs. OSWALD. I would have noticed it if he did.
Senator RUSSELL. I see---you would have noticed it.
*Mrs. OSWALD. And so--I have never seen him before with the pistol.
Senator RUSSELL. He didn't state to you that he talked to any person in Mexico other than at the Russian Embassy and the Cuban Embassy?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. No. The only persons he mentioned were the Cuban Embassy and the Soviet Embassy in Mexico.
Senator RUSSELL. Now, going back to your personal relations, Mrs. Oswald, with Lee. Do you think he wanted to send you back to Russia just to get rid of you?
*Mrs. OSWALD. This is the question that I am puzzled about and I am wondering about it myself, whether he wanted to get rid of me.
Senator RUSSELL. Do you think he was really devoted to the children or was he just putting on a show about liking the children?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes; he loved the children.
*I believe he loved the children, but at times--one side of his life was such that I wondered whether he did or not. Some of the things that he did certainly were not good for his children--some of the acts he was engaged in.
Senator RUSSELL. He knew you would take the children back to Russia with you, if you wanted, did he not?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. Of course I would have taken the children with me to the Soviet Union.
Senator RUSSELL. It seems to me that I recall once or twice in this testimony when you had had some little domestic trouble, as all married couples have, that he had cried, which is most unusual for a man in this country--men don't cry very often, and do you think that he cried despite the fact that he wasn't very devoted to you and loved you a great deal?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. The fact that he cried, and on one occasion he begged me to come back to him--he stood on his knees and begged me to come back to him--whether that meant that he loved me--perhaps he did. On the other hand, the acts that he committed showed to me that he didn't particularly care for me.
Senator RUSSELL. You think then that his acts that he committed outside your domestic life within the family, within the realm of the family, was an indication that he did not love you?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. The fact that he made attempts on the lives of other people

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