Mrs. Oswald. I would like to know if the Commission wants me to make some comment on any differences in substance between the manuscript and the testimony which I have given, or between the manuscript or the translation, whichever translation may be accepted, or both.
The Chairman. The Commission will ask the questions, if there is anything of that nature. Now, Congressman Ford, do you have some questions?
Representative Ford. Yes, Mr. Chief Justice, I have a few questions. In the Soviet Union, when a marriage application is applied for, what are the steps that you take?
Mrs. Oswald. There are certain applications which have to be filled out by the boy and girl.
Representative Ford. Do you have to go down together to make the application?
Mrs. Oswald. It is necessary for both to appear with their passports and fill out this application.
Representative Ford. In other words, Lee Harvey Oswald had to take his passport down to—at the time that he applied for a marriage application?
Mrs. Oswald. Lee Oswald did not have his passport at the time since it was in the American Embassy. He went with his residence permission to the office. But our marriage was entered into his American passport after we were married and before we left the Soviet Union for the United States.
Representative Ford. So it is not the passport in the sense that we think of a passport, that we get to travel to a foreign country?
Mrs. Oswald. Since most marriages are concluded between Soviet citizens, they only present their internal passports to the marriage license bureau. But if there is a marriage between a Soviet citizen and a foreigner, he presents his residence permission and his foreign passport, also, if he has one. If he doesn't have it, the residence permission is enough.