(Testimony of Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald Resumed)
Mr. Rankin.
with you, if you wished it, and you said you didn't need it, you would just tell the truth?
Mrs. Oswald.
Mr. Sorrels called me on telephone and he asked me if I have a lawyer, an attorney, and I said, "No." and he told me, "Do I want to have one?" and I said, "No."
Mr. Rankin.
And you understood that you would be supplied a lawyer if you wanted one and you said you didn't, is that right?
Mrs. Oswald.
Yes.
Mr. Rankin.
You referred to the fact, when you were asked, that your husband had a rifle in the Soviet Union while he was there. In your prior testimony, you referred to either a rifle or a shotgun, do you know which it was?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I do not know the difference between the shotgun and the rifle.
Mr. Rankin.
Do you know that he had one or the other?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I know that there is a difference between this particular rifle and another rifle, but I don't know what the difference is. It was perhaps a different color.
Mr. Rankin.
You know that in the Soviet Union he did have either a rifle or a shotgun, do you?*
Mrs. Oswald.
Yes.
Mr. Rankin.
Turning to the period when you were in New Orleans, just before you went back to Dallas with Ruth Paine, do you recall that time?*
*Mrs. OSWALD Yes--faintly.
Mr. Rankin.
Do you remember that was the latter part of September?*
Mrs. Oswald.
**Possibly.
Mr. Rankin.
Do you remember what date you went back to Dallas from New Orleans?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. It wasn't the 26th of September?
Mr. Rankin.
Wasn't it about the 23d of September that you went back?* **
Mrs. Oswald.
The 23d?
*I do not know.
Mr. Rankin.
Do you remember that you had a discussion with your husband about the unemployment check that he was to receive about that time?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. I remember Lee told me that he was expecting an unemployment check just before he left for Mexico.
Mr. Rankin.
Did he tell you that he had changed the postal address and that that check would probably come to Ruth Paine's?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. He told me that he was going to change his address and that the letters would come to that new address of Ruth Paine.
Mr. Rankin.
Did the unemployment check ever come to Ruth Paine's?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. When he returned from Mexico, he asked me if the unemployment check arrived, and I replied that I did not know. No; there was no check.
Mr. Rankin.
Did he say anything about getting the check at New Orleans and cashing it himself?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. I do not remember it right now, but if I mentioned that to the Commission before, then it was so.
Mr. Rankin.
Do you have any recollection about it now?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I do not recall distinctly now, but I think there was some conversation about the check being long in transit, that the check was sent from Dallas to New Orleans and from New Orleans to Irving.
Mr. Rankin.
Well apparently, Mrs. Oswald, the facts show that the check was cashed by your husband with a stamped mark of the bank, dated the 26th of September, in New Orleans. Does that refresh your memory at all?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. I was not with Lee at that time.
Mr. Rankin.
Did he ever tell you anything about it?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I do not remember at this moment.
Mr. Rankin.
Apparently he cashed the check at the little store, or the supermarket, near where you lived there in New Orleans. Did he every tell you that?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; he did not tell me. I do not remember that he told me.
Mr. Rankin.
Did Lee ever tell you where he stayed the night after you left, that is, the night of the 23d of September?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. He told me that he stayed in that same house.
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