Mr. Clark.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Born here in Texas?

Mr. Clark.

No, I was born in Indiana.

Mr. Liebeler.

When did you move to Texas, approximately?

Mr. Clark.

In 1927.

Mr. Liebeler.

Would you state for us briefly your educational background?

Mr. Clark.

Well, I attended public high schools in Fort Worth, graduated and went to T.C.U. University of Texas, 1 year in the University of Arizona and received my law degree at the University of Texas.

Mr. Liebeler.

Your wife, I understand, was born in France and her parents were born in Russia, is that correct?

Mr. Clark.

My wife was born in France; her father is Russian and her mother is English and Russian. I know her father was born in Russia but I am not certain whether her mother was born in Russia or England because they alternated back and forth so I really don't know.

Mr. Liebeler.

Does your wife speak Russian?

Mr. Clark.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did there come a time when you made the acquaintance of Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife, Marina Oswald?

Mr. Clark.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

Would you tell us in your words the background leading up to that; how it happened, the circumstances leading up to when you met him, approximately when?

Mr. Clark.

We first became aware of Oswald when we noticed in the newspaper in Fort Worth that Lee Oswald, a defector, had returned to Fort Worth with this Russian wife and very shortly after, I noticed it in the paper, possibly the same week, my wife received a phone call from Oswald stating that he was there and he understood she spoke Russian and her name had been given to him as a person speaking Russian from someone from the Texas Employment Commission and she said well, that that was true, that she had spoke some Russian and I was at my office and we would either call---or we would call him that weekend so she discussed it with me when I came home and on a Sunday following that, why, I told her "Well, might as well call if the girl spoke Russian and hadn't been able to communicate" she might as well call her; and so she placed the call to Oswald's brother, I believe is where they were staying the newspaper said, and talked with Oswald and suggested if he wanted to, he and his wife could drive over to our house that afternoon and he stated to her that it was not convenient for him, so we felt, well, we made the offer so that's it; so we paid no further attention to him or did not make any further attempt.

Mr. Liebeler.

This first attempt of Oswald's to contact your wife did he tell you what motivated him; was it purely a social matter?

Mr. Clark.

Purely social; his wife could not speak English and she would like to talk to some girl that spoke Russian so we made the offer. We were not about to go out to his house where he was living. If he wanted to see us he could come over there. We felt we had done enough. Shortly after that my wife's mother was having an operation in France so it had been planned that she would go over there during this operation, so my wife left in July, I believe, or first of August. I have forgotten, of 1962 and was gone 7 weeks or something like that. When she returned to Fort Worth in September or the latter part of September, the Russian group which she keeps rather close contact with--there is not such a large number between Dallas and Fort Worth that they communicate quite freely back and forth--stated that they had met this Marina Oswald and that she was having an extremely hard time and so several of them came over from Fort Worth, I mean from Dallas to Fort Worth and asked my wife to meet them at Oswald's house.

Mr. Liebeler.

Who is this?

Mr. Clark.

I think it was George Bouhe and Anna Meller and I've forgotten but I wasn't present, I don't know, but this is what my wife was telling me, so she arranged to meet them at this apartment that the Oswalds were living in one afternoon and she told me that she met this Marina and she looked like a little child and had this baby and she talked with her and Oswald was apparently working because she did not see him and then we had no further contact