Mr. Rankin. Did you and your husband make a trip to Moscow in connection with your plans to go to the United States?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. We went to the American Embassy.
Mr. Rankin. Did your husband make a trip to Moscow alone before that? About his passport?
Mrs. Oswald. He didn't go alone. He actually left a day early and the following morning I was to come there.
Mr. Rankin. I understood that he didn't get any permission to make this trip to Moscow away from Minsk. Do you know whether that is true?
Mrs. Oswald. I don't know about this. I know that he bought a ticket and he made the flight.
Mr. Rankin. According to the practice, then, would he be permitted to go to Moscow from Minsk without the permission of the authorities?
Mrs. Oswald. I don't know whether he had the right to go to Moscow. Perhaps he did, because he had a letter requesting him to visit the Embassy. But he could not go to another city without permission of the authorities.
Mr. Rankin. When the decision was made to come to the United States, did you discuss that with your family?
Mrs. Oswald. First when we made the decision, we didn't know what would come of it later, what would happen further. And Lee asked me not to talk about it for the time being.