Mrs. Ford. That is right. He is not going to talk English with her, he wanted Russian. He wanted for the little girl to learn Russian and for himself not to forget it.
Mr. Liebeler. Did he indicate, in other words that he wanted Marina to speak Russian so that he could maintain his own ability in Russian?
Mrs. Ford. That is correct.
Mr. Liebeler. And he also wanted his children to learn to speak Russian?
Mrs. Ford. That is right.
Mr. Liebeler. After this party on the 28th of December, what was your next contact with either Lee or Marina Oswald?
Mrs. Ford. After the 28th? I think after the assassination, I only heard once about her, I just heard she went to New Orleans. Again a friend, Lydia Dymitruk, was in the bakery and she said she saw Marina coming in and she told her she thought Marina was pregnant and she told her Marina was going to New Orleans. That is the only time I have heard anything about them after that party. The next contact I had with her was, I don't know the date but it was soon after the assassination when I just felt sorry for Marina, I thought she was, I always felt she was innocent, I thought she was a naive girl in a lot of ways and that is why she got into a lot of problems and troubles.
I just felt if she didn't have anybody there except the FBI and nobody to speak in Russian, she didn't know how everybody felt, I would think she would feel very badly, so I called Mrs. Paine who, I found out after the assassination she was a friend of Marina's and I told her that if she would have a contact with Marina, tell her that we sympathize with her that she is in the position that she is, and to call me or to let me—that I would like to talk with her.
Mr. Liebeler. Can you tell us approximately when it was that you talked to Mrs. Paine?
Mrs. Ford. I think that was either the first part of December, I think it must have been at least a week after the assassination.