*We were never hungry, but we didn't have much. We were never too hungry. but we never had any plentitude. We never had too much, and I wanted---I always wanted this and that, but that was not available.
Senator RUSSELL. But he never made a great deal of money, did he?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I marvel now how we managed to live on what he earned at that time in comparison with what I have now. We spent $12 or $15 a week at that time.
We spent $12 or $15 a week at that time--you know, we can live that was for milk and so on.
Senator RUSSELL. He didn't spent any money on himself, did he, he wasn't extravagant in his own habits? He didn't spend his money on clothes or whisky or women or things of that kind, did he?

Mrs. Oswald.

Oh, no. He told--somebody told about Jack Ruby--he went to his nightclub, he never did go to nightclub.
Senator RUSSELL. Well, I mean just extravagance in his own habits--he was frugal in his own eating habits, he didn't eat much when he was away from home, did he?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.
Senator RUSSELL. You knew where he kept his money in your home, did you not?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. He had a black wallet, but I never ventured into it.
Senator RUSSELL. Did he not tell you to take some of the money out of the wallet at one time and buy some clothes for the children and yourself?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Gopadze.

Pardon--you don't understand the question?**
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes; he did. It was the morning before the tragedy.
Senator RUSSELL. Before the assassination of the President?
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Senator RUSSELL. Did he ever talk to you about the result of his visit to Mexico?
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Senator RUSSELL. Did he say his efforts were all a failure there, that he got any assistance that he was seeking?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. He told me that he visited the Cuban Embassy and the Soviet Embassy and that they have the same bureaucracy in the Cuban Embassy that they have in the Soviet Embassy and that he obtained no results.
Senator RUSSELL. Did you have less money in the United States than you had in Russia when you were married over there?
*Mrs. OSWALD. We had more money in the United States than we did in the Soviet Union, but here we have to pay $65 a month rent from $200 earned, and we didn't have to do that in the Soviet Union. Here the house rent amounted to 30 percent of total wages earned, while in the Soviet Union we paid 10 percent of the wages earned. Then, all the medical expenses, medical assistance expenses are paid there. However, Lee didn't spend much money on medical expenses here because he found ways to get the expenses free; the services free.
Senator RUSSELL. You have testified, I believe, that Lee didn't use his rifle much, the one he had in the Soviet Union. Did he ever discuss shooting anyone in the Soviet Union like he did in shooting Nixon and Walker here in this country?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; not in the Soviet Union.
Senator RUSSELL. You haven't then heard from anyone except one letter from your aunt, since you left Russia?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. No; I received letters from my girl friend.
Senator RUSSELL. Oh, how many letters from your girl friend?

Mrs. Oswald.

Just from one---a Christmas card---I don't remember how many, probably not more than four or five.
*But only one letter from the aunt.
*Mrs. OSWALD. We received letters from Lee's friends written to both of us--several letters.
Senator RUSSELL. Written to you?

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