**Mrs. OSWALD. The reason I didn't notice that particular morning about his mood was because the night before we had a little quarrel and I didn't pay any attention to that, particularly, and I was thinking that it was due to that quarrel we had the night before.
Senator RUSSELL. Well, of course, that was the quarrel you had about him registering under an assumed name or giving an assumed name at his room.**
Was that not the time, did you not try to telephone him and they told you that no such person stayed there at all?
*Mrs. OSWALD. That was the cause of the quarrel. You see, at this particular morning of the assassination, I was very tired because the baby woke up several times during the night and I was very tired, and in the morning I did not register or I did not even attempt to register his moods.
Senator RUSSELL. I think you testified before that you only saw him when he got up, that you stayed in bed and that he got up and fixed his own coffee and got out.* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. The only extraordinary thing that I noticed about him the morning of the assassination was that when Lee was leaving the house, he asked me if I purchased a pair of shoes.
Senator RUSSELL. For June?

Mrs. Oswald.

For me.
Senator RUSSELL. And for June?*

Mrs. Oswald.

And for the baby.
Senator RUSSELL. And for June?
*Mrs. OSWALD. And that was the only thing that was extraordinary, and I wondered what was happening that he became, that he was so kind all of a sudden.
Senator RUSSELL. That was out of the money in the black wallet, too?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.
*Yes--that was a fleeting thought in my mind of why the change in him.
Senator RUSSELL. But apparently he was not as excited and as upset as he was the morning before the Walker shooting?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. He was just as usual--sort of sleepy that particular morning. He was not excited. Then, I was so sleepy myself that I didn't pay any attention.
Senator RUSSELL. But you did testify that he was unusually excited the night before he shot at General Walker, did you not?
*Mrs. OSWALD. The more time is passing, the more I am mixed up as to the exact occurrence. I'm forgetting these fine details with the passing of time.

Mr. Rankin.

Mr. Chairman, I wonder if we could take a 5-minute recess? The reporter has been at it a long time?
Senator RUSSELL. Oh, yes; I don't know how she's stood it. I've never seen one in the Congress that took it anything like that long.
The REPORTER. Thank you.

Mr. Rankin.

And we will let you have a 5 minute recess, Mrs. Oswald.
(At this point the proceedings were recessed and resumed as stated, at 6:40 p.m., Sunday, September 6, 1964.)

Mr. Rankin.

Mr. Chairman.
Mrs. Oswald, you have not appeared here today with a lawyer. have you?*

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

You have not, is that right? You have no lawyer with you?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.
Senator RUSSELL. No.

Mr. Rankin.

When you appeared before the Commission the other two times, you did have a lawyer with you, did you not?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes--the other two times.

Mr. Rankin.

Is there some reason why you do not have a lawyer at this time?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. That attorney cost me too much.

Mr. Rankin.

And--before this hearing, Mrs. Oswald, we offered to, that is the Commission offered to furnish you an attorney if you wanted one to be supplied to you for this hearing, did it not?* **
**Mrs. OSWALD. You did so?

Mr. Rankin.

I understood that that message was given to you by the Secret Service that we would ask for the appointment of counsel to attend the meeting

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