No.
Senator COOPER. Did Lee Oswald ever express any opinion to you as to why he thought an exit visa might be granted to you and your daughter?
*Mrs. OSWALD. He encouraged me and he thought that I would consider that he exerted every effort on his part for me to get this exit. Maybe he just was saying that that way, but never hoped that actually I would get the exit permit.
Senator COOPER. During that time or at any other time, did Lee ever say to you, that he might do some work for the Soviet Union if you did return to the United States?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. He did not.
Senator COOPER. I would like to turn to your testimony about your knowledge of the rifle that Lee possessed. Now, as I remember your testimony, you stated that you first learned that he had the rifle early in 1963.*
*Mrs. OSWALD. In the year that he bought it, I learned it.
Senator COOPER. You had seen him clean it, you had watched him sight the rifle in New Orleans and work the bolt?* **

Mr. Gregory.

In New Orleans?
Senator COOPER. Yes; in your testimony, you said you saw him sitting on the little back porch----

Mrs. Oswald.

On the little back porch--yes.
Senator COOPER. And sight the rifle?
*Mrs. OSWALD. I'm sorry, I might be mixed up.
Senator COOPER. When you testified that you believed he did some target practice at least a few times?
*Mrs. OSWALD. In Dallas or New Orleans?* **
*Yes; when we lived on Neely Street.
Senator COOPER. He told you that he had used this rifle to fire at General Walker?*

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.
Senator COOPER. He told you he had threatened Vice President Nixon, you had said?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. He did not say "Vice President Nixon," he just said, "Nixon."
Senator COOPER. Now, was it your opinion throughout these months that he was keeping this rifle for his purpose of using it again, firing at some individual, perhaps an official of the United States Government?*
** Mrs. OSWALD. **He never expressed himself.
*When the assassination of President Kennedy took place, I was asking people whether--people in general--whether General Walker was with President Kennedy. It perhaps was a silly question, but I thought that he----
Senator COOPER. Listen to my question: During this time, didn't you have the opinion that he was keeping possession of this rifle and practicing with it for the purpose of using it to shoot at some individual, and perhaps an official of the United States Government?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I never thought--I was afraid to think that he would do anything like that until the shooting of General Walker occurred.
Senator COOPER. But now my question. After that--the continued possession----* **
**Mrs. OSWALD. After the attempting of the killing of General Walker, I thought he might do it, but I didn't visualize that he could do anything like that.
Senator COOPER. When you testified before the Commission, you said--generally-you didn't think Lee would repeat anything like that--"Generally, I knew that the rifle was very-tempting for him".
Very tempting for him"--what did you mean by that, about the rifle being very tempting for him? Did you believe he might be tempted to shoot at someone else?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes; I was afraid that he did have temptation to kill someone else.
Senator COOPER. Mrs. Oswald, you testified that when you talked to Lee after he had shot at General Walker, or told you he had shot at General Walker, he said that it would have been well if someone had killed Hitler because many lives would be saved, is that correct?

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