Mrs. Oswald. This was in the morning.
Mr. Rankin. Who was there?
Mrs. Oswald. Just my husband and me.
Mr. Rankin. Now, will you describe in detail just what happened. Mrs. Oswald, when you are answering the questions will you try to break up your answers, and let the interpreter try to translate; I think it will be helpful in not having the interpreter have to try to remember everything of a long answer. Do you understand me?
Mr. Dulles. May I suggest also, Mr. Rankin, that I think it would be preferable that the record be in the first person, that is, the interpreter translate just as she said it.
I was looking over the earlier record and that is the way it was over the earlier record and it went quite well.
Mrs. Oswald. It was early in the morning and my husband went out to get a newspaper, then he came in and sat reading the newspaper. I didn't pay any attention to him because I was occupied with the housework.
Then he got dressed and put on a good suit. I saw that he took a pistol. I asked him where he was going, and why he was getting dressed. He answered, "Nixon is coming. I want to go and have a look." I said, "I know how you look," or rather, "I know how you customarily look, how you customarily take a look," because I saw he was taking the pistol with him rather than I know how you look in the sense that you are dressed, how you look at things is what I mean.
Mr. Rankin. Had it come to your attention, Mrs. Oswald, that Mr. Nixon was going to be in Dallas prior to that time?
Mrs. Oswald. No; it did not.