(Testimony of Raymond Franklin Krystinik)
Mr. Krystinik.
me that about him, and when I met him at Selecman Hall, I didn't feel overly happy to meet the man, or that I had made an acquaintance of value.
They were there before my wife and I came. As we walked in and sat down, Oswald was there, and it didn't occur to me then that he might be the man. Prior to the meeting starting, he introduced me to him.
Michael, I am referring to---Michael introduced me. I need to keep my chain more correct, straight. Michael introduced me to Lee Oswald. As the meeting started, about that time before the meeting first there was a little bit of talk. I don't remember what the chairman of the meeting said prior to the film starting.
They showed a film about a Senator or Congressman or legislator, some form of public servant who was running for reelection in Washington State, and the far right people wanted him out in a campaign, stating that his wife had connections with the Communist Party, and apparently she had had connections during her college days but had severed relations with the party and had given evidence to the FBI and an investigating team and apparently was clean at the time, or had no connection with the party at the time. And they showed in a film how the far right or an extremist movement could greatly damage a citizen that was of value to the United States. That was the essence of the film.
After the film there was discussion about the Civil Liberties and about the film in general and about the movement in the South and the integration movement and the talk concerning General Walker. The first notice I made of Oswald is when he stood up and made a remark about General Walker in reference to him not only being anti-Catholic but anti-Semitic in regard to his comments about the Pope. Then he made further comments that a night or two nights before he had been at the General Walker meeting here in Dallas. That was my first real notice of him.
Mr. Liebeler.
Oswald said to the assembled group at that time that he had been to a meeting 2 days prior at which General Walker was present?
Mr. Krystinik.
I think it was 2 days prior.
Mr. Liebeler.
That meeting would have been just the night before Mr. Stevenson came to Dallas?
Mr. Krystinik.
Yes, sir; I think, or it could have been the same night. I don't remember the exact date.
Mr. Liebeler.
What did Oswald say about General Walker?
Mr. Krystinik.
That was it. That was his comment about Walker, and it struck me at the time. I mean my ears perked up when he said Walker was anti-Catholic in reference to his comments about the Pope. I can quote that. That is exact. I am Catholic and I wanted to hear what he said. He didn't say what General Walker had said.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did he indicate any hostility toward General Walker either by words or by his deeds?
Mr. Krystinik.
At the time it seemed like Michael had commented to me prior that the man was a Marxist, and I have never met anyone before that I had known to be a Communist or a Marxist or Leninist or Red, and I was interested mainly to see what the man looked like, how he thought and what he felt. It seemed to me, in watching and listening to him, that rather than being violently against General Walker, he was stirring in dirty thoughts that you shouldn't like General Walker. He didn't say General Walker is a bad guy. He just made comments that General Walker is anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic, and he was spreading a little seed of thought. That was the way it impressed me.
Mr. Liebeler.
You didn't get the feeling that Oswald had any particular violent thoughts towards General Walker?
Mr. Krystinik.
I didn't at this time. I had no idea he was violent until I heard on the radio he had shot the President.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did anybody respond to Oswald's remarks about General Walker?
Mr. Krystinik.
There were other people that discussed it, and then they discussed the bad display the people from the far right had put on when Mr. Stevenson was in Dallas, and it was regrettable that extremists would act like
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