Mr. Delgado.

went to the bar, the girls would come along, and I was Spanish---they knew that right off the bat, and they would tell me something in Spanish that was funny, and him and I would laugh, and he would laugh understandingly, and he would be talking small talk with the girls, you know, which was in my--you know, I had taught him just what he knew, and he was very fast learning. Just like I told the FBI agent that there's a couple of fellows in my outfit now that wanted to learn, you know, Spanish, and would walk up to me, and I tried to teach them the best I can. One of them wanted to learn it, because he was going to Juarez for a problem we had down there, and he used it down there, what he learned. He learned off of books and also because he asked me for help for some phrases, and when he went down there he had no trouble. And the same thing with Oswald.

Mr. Liebeler.

This is a fellow that you just referred to now, in your outfit?

Mr. Delgado.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

In Jersey?

Mr. Delgado.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

What is his name?

Mr. Delgado.

Jones.

Mr. Liebeler.

Jones?

Mr. Delgado.

Willie Jones.

Mr. Liebeler.

What is his rating?

Mr. Delgado.

Specialist 4.

Mr. Liebeler.

Is he in C Battery?

Mr. Delgado.

No. Delta Battery.

Mr. Liebeler.

What does he do?

Mr. Delgado.

He's a radar operator also. And there's another fellow, George Bradford, specialist 5. He's asked for it, and I've reached--taught him to speak Spanish. In fact, I'll ask him for some money, you know, and he'll come out and say, "I'm broke right now. I haven't got it with me." Or, "Have you got a cigarette, George?" in Spanish, you know. "No, but I'll get you one," or things like that. Now, I met this fellow in Germany, and there I started teaching him a little bit. Not an awful lot, but smalltalk.

Mr. Liebeler.

Would you say that Bradford and Jones knew about the same amount of Spanish as Oswald knew?

Mr. Delgado.

No.

Mr. Liebeler.

Not as much?

Mr. Delgado.

They don't know as much as Oswald. Oswald knew more than they did," because he applied himself more. These guys would pick up a book once or twice a week and learn a phrase here and there. But Oswald was continuously trying to learn something, and more often as not he would come in to me any time we were off, and he would be asking me for this phrase. Spanish is very tricky. There's some sentences you can use, and if you use them, let's see how can I--well, the pants and present, you know, past and present tense of a sentence. He would get a misinterpretation and say, "I can't say this in a conversation?", and I would say "No. You don't say this this particular time. You use it some place else." Like, "Yo voy al teatro"-"I'm going to the theatre"--you know. And there's a correct way of saying that and there's a wrong way of saying it. The best way--let me see if I can get you a good phrase. I can't fight offhand think of a phrase that would fit. But some of these things when he picked up the language, some things he couldn't put into a sentence right away, and he would want to know why. That's the type of guy he was. "Why can't these things be used? Why is it that you use it now and not later?" Things like that.

Mr. Liebeler.

He would learn some of the words and then he would try to put them in a sentence logically?

Mr. Delgado.

Right.

Mr. Liebeler.

And the language just wasn't constructed that way?

Mr. Delgado.

Right.

Mr. Liebeler.

And he had difficulty in understanding that?

Mr. Delgado.

You see, in English you say things straight out; right? In Spanish, 9 times out of 10 it is just the reverse. I am going to the show. But if I was to translate it into Spanish, it would come, out the show I will go, or