Mr. Rankin. That is De Mohrenschildt that you refer to?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Did you tell the authorities anything about this Walker incident when you learned about it?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. You have told the Secret Service or the FBI people reasons why you didn't. Will you tell us?
Mrs. Oswald. Why I did not tell about it?
First, because it was my husband. As far as I know, according to the local laws here, a wife cannot be a witness against her husband. But, of course, if I had known that Lee intended to repeat something like that, I would have told.
Mr. Rankin. Did he ask you to return the note to him?
Mrs. Oswald. He forgot about it. But apparently after that he thought that what he had written in his book might be proof against him, and he destroyed it.
Mr. Rankin. That is this book that you have just referred to in which he had the Walker house picture?