Mr. Rankin. And in giving that answer, you have examined the pictures, and you know they are different positions—that is, your husband has the rifle in different positions and the newspaper in different positions in the two pictures—do you?
Mrs. Oswald. I am aware of that.
Mr. Rankin. Mrs. Oswald, did you ever have a discussion with your husband about when he decided that he would like to become a citizen of the Soviet Union?
Mrs. Oswald. We discussed this and he said that the Soviet Government wanted him to become a Soviet citizen and furnished him the necessary papers, but he apparently refused. But the way it appears in his diary, of course, is quite different—in fact, the exact opposite.
Mr. Rankin. By the exact opposite, you mean that it shows in his diary that he was the one that wanted to be a Soviet citizen, and the Soviet Union refused to allow that; is that right?
Mrs. Oswald. That is correct.
Representative Ford. When did this conversation on this subject take place, Mrs. Oswald?
Mrs. Oswald. About 3 months after we were married.
Representative Ford. While you were living in Minsk?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.