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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VIII - Page 376« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of George A. Bouhe)

Mr. Bouhe.
take a yellow pad and write 'My name is Marina Oswald. We live in Fort Worth.'"
Mr. Leibeler.
He had those lessons that you had sent to Marina?
Mr. Bouhe.
I don't dnow what he had. All I could hear was my own words, because I have a way of speaking myself. He just showed me a photostate of one of my pages. This was it. And she made progress.
Mr. Liebeler.
She seemed to be a good student of English; is that correct?
Mr. Bouhe.
The first four or five lessons, for two or three pages each made a good headway.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did she ever come to your house to study Russian?
Mr. Bouhe.
No, sir.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you know if she ever went to visit with Mr. Gregory to study English?
Mr. Bouhe.
No.
Mr. Liebeler.
In my previous question I meant English, to study at your house?
Mr. Bouhe.
Now Marina was in my house with Lee Harvey Oswald and the baby when I met them at the bus station on or about September 9, 1962.
Mr. Liebeler.
That was the only time they were in your house?
Mr. Bouhe.
Precisely. I took them from the bus to my house, changed the diaper----
Mr. Liebeler.
Marina was never in your house in the absence of Lee Oswald?
Mr. Bouhe.
Never. And I never was, to the best of my recollection, and made a point of it never to be in Marina's house without somebody else being there.
Mr. Liebeler.
Now can you tell us why you took such care in that regard? Why did you make sure that you never went to visit Marina Oswald?
Mr. Bouhe.
Because he was a peculiar guy, and I am not a fighter. I am an expert fighter with the word, but not with the muscles. And by his smirking appearances or other expressions on the face, indicated that I am not welcome and I am persona non grata, because apparently he was jealous that I filled the icebox once, and when she said that somebody else bought groceries, he said, "Who did that?" Why I gave you $2 last week; $2 you got."
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you know whether Oswald was ever jealous of the attention that any other gentlemen in the Russian group might have given to Marina?
Mr. Bouhe.
I did not see.
Mr. Liebeler.
You do not know about that?
Mr. Bouhe.
I did not see, observe, suspect or hear, because probably I showed undivided, what I might call, interest in the family as a whole.
Mr. Liebeler.
So as far as you know, Oswald never was really jealous of any of your friends or your attention to Marina in any romantic way?
Mr. Bouhe.
I don't know, and he certainly didn't tell me anything about it.
Mr. Liebeler.
But you never heard it from anybody else?
Mr. Bouhe.
I did not hear, and I am 60.
Mr. Liebeler.
Yes; I am not only meaning you, Mr. Bouhe, I mean anyone else in the group. You never heard any stories to that effect?
Mr. Bouhe.
But I did think maybe Marina slipped, after the second beer, "Well, Lee is jealous of you."
Mr. Liebeler.
She said that about you?
Mr. Bouhe.
Yes; because I bought groceries.
Mr. Liebeler.
You don't know why Marina stopped studying English at the end of the fourth lesson?
Mr. Bouhe.
Sir, I wish I knew.
Mr. Liebeler.
You don't know the answer to that question?
Mr. Bouhe.
Just a moment. I do not know the answer to that question.
Mr. Liebeler.
Were you surprised when you heard that Oswald had been charged with the assassination of the President?
Mr. Bouhe.
You can say that again.
Mr. Liebeler.
Why were you surprised?
Mr. Bouhe.
Because I happened to know the guy.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you think that Oswald was capable of doing such a thing?
Mr. Bouhe.
Never up to that moment. Did not enter my mind.
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