Mr. Rankin. Do you remember any occasion which you thought caused him to start to talk that way?
Mrs. Oswald. No, I don't.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know why he started to hit you about that?
Mrs. Oswald. Now, I think that I know, although at that time I didn't. I think that he was very nervous and just this somehow relieved his tension.
Mr. Rankin. Did you observe sometime when you thought he changed?
Mrs. Oswald. I would say that immediately after coming to the United States Lee changed. I did not know him as such a man in Russia.
Mr. Rankin. Will you describe how you observed these changes and what they were as you saw them?
Mrs. Oswald. He helped me as before, but he became a little more of a recluse. He did not like my Russian friends and he tried to forbid me to have anything to do with them.
He was very irritable, sometimes for a trifle, for a trifling reason.
Mr. Rankin. Did he tell you why he did not like your Russian friends?