Senator RUSSELL. Mrs. Oswald, didn't Lee read about government a great deal? Didn't Lee read about civic affairs and about government a great deal?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. He read books about Kennedy, about Hitler, about others.
Senator RUSSELL. Haven't you been in this country long enough to know that the President is Commander and Chief of the Army and Navy and he's even head of the Secretary of the Navy. He can order him to do anything he wants to? *
*Mrs. OSWALD. I didn't pay any attention to it or I didn't know it or wasn't told.
Senator RUSSELL. Do you have any facts on which you base your opinion now that Lee Oswald was shooting and was intending to kill Connally rather than President Kennedy?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I have no facts whatsoever. I simply express an opinion which perhaps is not logical at all, but I am sorry if I mixed everybody up.
Senator RUSSELL. You haven't mixed anybody up, except I think that you have your evidence terribly confused.*
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; I have no facts whatsoever. I'm sorry I told them that.
Senator RUSSELL. Do you know whether or not Lee knew Connally personally or did he know that he was going to be in this motorcade at all?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; I did not know whether Lee knew or ever contacted the Governor personally, and I don't know whether Lee knew that the Governor would be in the motorcade.
Senator RUSSELL. But Lee did take his gun into town that day, and so far as you know, I believe you said that was the first day he had carried it into town?
*Mrs. OSWALD. I do not personally know that Lee took the rifle that morning or the night before. Apparently the Commission has witnesses or information to that effect, but of my own knowledge, I don't know.
Senator RUSSELL. Did you not testify that you thought this was Lee's rifle that was shown you as the one that shot Connally and the President?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes; I testified that that was the rifle.

Mr. Gopadze.

No---I'm sorry. As far as she knows about the arms, the rifle which was shown to her looked like the one he had.

Mr. Gregory.

Yes; that's right.
Senator RUSSELL. That's all I asked her. That's just exactly what I asked her.

Mr. Gregory.

Yes; that's correct.
Senator RUSSELL. In discussing the motorcade, did he say anything about Connally would be riding with the President?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; he did not.
Senator RUSSELL. I believe you testified, did you not, Mrs. Oswald, that the day before Lee told you that he fired at General Walker, that he seemed to be under great emotional stress, strain, very tense?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. He was angry and excited. He was angry and excited.
Senator RUSSELL. Did he show any of that on the morning that he left home when the President was assassinated?* **
**Mrs. OSWALD. Well, I did not notice any difference in Lee's attitude during that morning from any other day. But sometimes, quite often, he was impulsive and nervous and excited. I got tired from watching him in those particular moods, in his moods, and I didn't pay any attention.
Senator RUSSELL. Why did you happen to watch him then on the morning that he shot at General Walker?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I simply--his mood left no impression on me that particular morning. There was nothing extraordinary about it.
Senator RUSSELL. On the Walker morning?

Mrs. Oswald.

No, no--on the morning of the President's assassination.
Senator RUSSELL. Yes, but you said you noticed it on the morning before he shot Walker?

Mrs. Oswald.

Are you talking about Walker?
Senator RUSSELL. If you didn't notice his moods, how did you happen to notice it on the day before he shot at General Walker?* **

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