Mr. Gregory.

I knew that later on George Bouhe tried to teach her English. He would send her lessons and she would send them back and he would correct them. I don't know to what extent these lessons went on, but these lessons started after I had gone away to school.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you ever have any opportunity to judge Oswald's ability to write the Russian language? You mentioned that you had seen this one letter. Did you notice any misspelled words in it?

Mr. Gregory.

No; I did not see any letter that he had written.

Mr. Liebeler.

This was a letter that he had received?

Mr. Gregory.

I couldn't say at all. I imagine he would have quite a bit of difficulty, because I don't think he had any understanding of the grammar.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you think that his proficiency in Russian was particularly good, or about average for the length of time he had been in the Soviet Union?

Mr. Gregory.

I couldn't judge. All I think is, he was fluent and he could read well in Russian. Probably he did have a better grammatical knowledge than I thought, because of all of the reading which I saw him do, excepting for a few books, was in Russian.
I mean, if he would sit down to read a book, he would be reading in Russian.

Mr. Liebeler.

How much did he read?

Mr. Gregory.

I couldn't say. He was always going down to the library and coming back with all kinds of books. Usually he would not read in my presence, because we would all sit around and talk. Toward the end, I was writing a paper and I needed Marina's help to correct the grammar, and we would go over to one side and work on that, and he would sit and read. He read Lenin. I can't remember which book it was, but that is the only thing I have really seen him read. And then he always spoke about his, he said, this great love of history.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you ever see him read any books other than this book about Lenin?

Mr. Gregory.

No; it was not about, it was Lenin writings, and Lenin was all.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you remember the name of any books that Oswald brought home from the library that you saw in his apartment?

Mr. Gregory.

I can't remember. It would have been nothing extremely interesting. I can't give any titles.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you ever discuss with him the nature of his love of study of history?

Mr. Gregory.

No; I always--my opinion of him was that he was not smart. I thought maybe he would read a lot, but not absorb it. That was opinion of him.
He just said he always had this love of history, and he several times--one evening he went out to TCU and another time he went out to get the catalogue for Arlington State to try to get some night school or something, and evidently was a pure dream on his part, seeing he did not have the high school degree. And he always spoke that he wanted to go back to school and get a degree and study economics and history and philosophy and things like that.

Mr. Liebeler.

He went out to TCU? Did he tell you that he went out to TCU?

Mr. Gregory.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

For what purpose, did he tell you?

Mr. Gregory.

To look for night school.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you remember approximately when that was?

Mr. Gregory.

It was the first time I ever went over there to have a lesson, he was gone. And he returned after, say, 15 minutes. He said he was at TCU, he had a schedule of their classes. And another time I took and I would take them out to look at the town. One night we went to TCU, and he asked me, do you think the director of the evening classes or some official, if they would be in at this hour, because he wanted to go see, and I said, "No; I am sure no one will be there."

Mr. Liebeler.

Did he ever tell you that he talked to any of the officials at TCU concerning the night school program?

Mr. Gregory.

No; he evidently must have talked to someone if he came back with a schedule, because I remember looking at the schedule.