Mr. Hall.

thought that he was going to destroy the middle of our economic way of life by doing that.

Mr. Liebeler.

You thought it was sort of a technique for him to express his resentment against the structure of our society that he disproved of? Is that a fair statement of your thinking?

Mr. Hall.

Exactly.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you have the feeling that Oswald desired recognition for his abilities and for his ideas? Recognition from people generally?

Mr. Hall.

No; I didn't think of it.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you have a feeling, or did you think about this before the assassination?

Mr. Hall.

No.

Mr. Liebeler.

You didn't think he was different from anybody else in that respect? You just never thought of it, or it never came to your mind prior to the assassination, is that correct?

Mr. Hall.

I felt just the opposite on the recognition part.

Mr. Liebeler.

He really didn't care what people thought about him?

Mr. Hall.

No; maybe he was saying this wrong to me, what he really believed. But from my thoughts, I thought that he would be happy if he had this so-called job like he was talking about in Russia and had complete security. And I thought this is. just what he was looking for in life, was complete serenity and happiness, no problems, no money problems, no rent problems--you see what I mean, just a middle-of-the-roader.

Mr. Liebeler.

So you didn't think he had any desire to stand out or be excellent at things?

Mr. Hall.

When I said middle-of-the-road, he had these firm ideas which couldn't be changed, as far as I am concerned, and he would go off in the other direction. So that doesn't lead him to be a middle-of-the-roader. He is, from my thinking, a rebellious-type person. He is going to do it the way he thinks right, and nobody is going to change him.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you ever hear, or did you ever take part in any discussion with anyone on the question of whether or not Oswald was possibly an agent of the Soviet Union.

Mr. Hall.

This came up after the assassination.

Mr. Liebeler.

There was no discussion about that prior to the assassination, that you can remember?

Mr. Hall.

AS an agent for Russia before, no, no.

Mr. Liebeler.

And it never occurred to you at any time prior to the assassination that Oswald might be a Russian agent?

Mr. Hall.

We didn't figure he had sense enough in that respect.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you consider the question after the assassination and you did discuss it?

Mr. Hall.

Just enough to think, "Do you think it was possible." In that---- and my firm thoughts about it is that, of course, that is just my thinking, but I don't see how there could be any connection. He is not responsible enough to have authority above him. In other words, he couldn't have anybody above him really telling him what to do. He couldn't take the orders.

Mr. Liebeler.

You have a feeling that Oswald was resentful of authority, generally speaking?

Mr. Hall.

I say that, but if he lived in Russia, with their system, he must have had a lot of authority above him.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did he ever indicate to you in any way that he was resentful of authority?

Mr. Hall.

I don't know about our system of government in authority. He was just resentful of, in my thinking, I don't know, well, he was just resentful of our way of government. I don't know of anything to judge him on, how resentful he was of his superior officers in the service or anything like that, but he was resentful of our way of life. Not just our government. He was resentful of our whole way of life.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did he ever tell you specifically, as far as you can remember, why he was resentful of it?

Mr. Hall.

Insecurity, I guess.