Mr. Rankin. Is there anything else that he told you about the Mexico City trip that you haven't related?
Mrs. Oswald. No, that is all that I can remember about it.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall how long he was gone on his trip to Mexico City?
Mrs. Oswald. All of this took approximately 2 weeks, from the time that I left New Orleans, until the time that he returned.
Mr. Rankin. And from the time he left the United States to go to Mexico City to his return, was that about 7 days?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. He said he was there for about a week.
Mr. Rankin. When you were asked before about the trip to Mexico, you did not say that you knew anything about it. Do you want to explain to the Commission how that happened?
Mrs. Oswald. Most of these questions were put to me by the FBI. I do not like them too much. I didn't want to be too sincere with them. Though I was quite sincere and answered most of their questions. They questioned me a great deal, and I was very tired of them, and I thought that, well, whether I knew about it or didn't know about it didn't change matters at all, it didn't help anything, because the fact that Lee had been there was already known, and whether or not I knew about it didn't make any difference.
Mr. Rankin. Was that the only reason that you did not tell about what you knew of the Mexico City trip before?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, because the first time that they asked me I said no, I didn't know anything about it. And in all succeeding discussions I couldn't very well have said I did. There is nothing special in that. It wasn't because this was connected with some sort of secret.