your believing now that Lee was shooting at Connally and not at the President, because you did not tell us that before.*
*Mrs. OSWALD. At that time I didn't think so, but the more I mull over it in my own mind trying to get it in my own mind what made him do what he did., the more I think that he was shooting at Connally rather than President Kennedy.
Senator RUSSELL. Now, did you not testify before that Lee wrote a letter to Connally when he was Secretary of the Navy about the nature of his Marine discharge?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.
Senator RUSSELL And that when he got a letter back, that you asked him what it was?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.
Senator RUSSELL. And he said, "Well, it's just some Bureaucrat's statement"?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.
*Yes.
Senator RUSSELL Did you not further testify that Lee said in discussing the gubernatorial election in Texas that if he were here and voting, that he would vote for Mr. Connally?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Senator RUSSELL. Now, do you think he would shoot and kill a man that he would vote for, for the Governor of his state?* **
**Mrs. OSWALD. The only reason is--I am trying to analyze, myself, there was a reason--more reason to dislike Connally as a man than he had for Kennedy.
Senator RUSSELL. Well, she testified before that he had spoken, as far as Lee spoke favorably of anyone, that he had spoken favorably of both Kennedy and of Governor Connally.**
**Mrs. OSWALD. He also told me that he was also favorable toward Connally, while they were in Russia. There is a possibility that he changed his mind, but he never told her that.
Senator RUSSELL. Well, I think that's about as speculative as the answers I've read here. He might have changed his mind, but he didn't tell her anything about it, as she testified--that discussing politics in Texas, that he said that if he were here when they had the election, that he would vote for John Connally for Governor, and that was after he got the letter about the Marine Corps.* **
**Mrs. OSWALD. That happened in Russia when he received some kind of pamphlet with a picture of Connally, a separate time, at which time he remarked that when he returned, if and when he returned to Texas he would vote for Connally.
Senator RUSSELL. That's right--that's exactly right, but yet now you say that he was his prime target.
I want to know what Connally had done to Lee since he got back from Russia that would cause him to change his mind, to shoot him?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. I do not know, but there is a possibility that Lee became hateful of Connally--because the matter of this dishonorable discharge was dragging so long.
Senator RUSSELL. Yes; but Connally had left the Navy, where he had anything to do with the discharge, before he got the pamphlet about his being a candidate for Governor?** *
**Mrs. OSWALD. I am not sure when that particular thing happened, whether Mr. Connally was the Secretary of the Navy or what he was doing.
Senator RUSSELL. Well, it's a matter of common knowledge that he ran for Governor after he resigned as Secretary of the Navy.

Mrs. Oswald.

I don't know.
Senator RUSSELL Did you not know that when Mr. Connally was running for Governor of Texas, he was no longer Secretary of the Navy and had nothing to do with the Marine Corps?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, I knew--I knew that he was not the Secretary of the Navy any more because Lee told me that Connally stated in the letter to Lee that he was no longer Secretary of Navy and hence he couldn't do anything for him, and that Connally referred the petition to the proper authorities.

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