Mr. Rankin. How did you learn about it?*
*Mrs. Oswald. He told me about it. Lee told me that the Soviet Union offered him Soviet citizenship, but he turned it down. He told me that he turned it down. At the same time, other developments as I recall, left the impression with me that he actually wanted to become a Soviet citizen, but I didn't connect the two. There is a discrepancy between the two, but at the time, I couldn't reconcile these apparent differences in what he said.
Mr. Rankin. You know he told the reporters that he talked to in Moscow in November, that the Government was going to let him stay, but his diary says he didn't get that word until January the 4th of the following year. Now, do you know anything about that, how that happened?*
Mrs. Oswald. 1960?
Mr. Rankin. 1959 in November is when he told the reporters, and it was January 4, 1960, that he actually put it in his diary that he had the first learning of it?*
Mrs. Oswald. That they would let him stay in the Soviet Union?
Mr. Rankin. Yes.
Mrs. Oswald. Newspaper reporters?
Mr. Rankin. Yes; newspaper reporters—Miss Johnson and Miss Mosby.*
*Mrs. Oswald. He made the entry into his diary, I think, at a later date, and they may not be correct or precise—just one.