Mr. Jenner. Does your memory serve you sufficiently now to define more clearly the period to which he refers as "a long time"?
Mr. Oswald. I would say in between the leave in 1958, and his letter received, postmarked in June 1959, I would not have received over two or three letters.
Mr. Jenner. His leave in '58 was when, again, please?
Mr. Oswald. I recall this to be in the early fall of the year—perhaps September.
Mr. Jenner. All right. Directing your attention now back to the letter of November 8, 1959, which is Commission Exhibit 294, I will ask you this: Is this the first letter you received from him from Russia?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Is it the first communication of any kind, at least directly from or initially by him, that you had from him?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir, that is correct.
Mr. Jenner. This is, then, the first time you heard from him from the day he departed to go to New Orleans, as he had stated to you, for the purpose of finding employment?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir, that is correct.