Mr. Jenner. In pencil and in pen?
Mrs. Bates. His pen would run out and he would start in on pencil.
Mr. Jenner. Now, is that handwriting familiar to you as compared with the handwriting of Lee Oswald, or what he said was his handwriting, when you transcribed his notes for 3 days?
Mrs. Bates. It looks very much—as I remember it—it looks very much like it.
[The witness points to a particular page.]
Mr. Jenner. The witness is referring to page 149 which seems particularly to attract her attention. The head of that is "Resident of U.S.S.R." Does that page awaken your recollection?
Mrs. Bates. Uh-huh—very definitely.
Mr. Jenner. What about it awakens your recollection?
Mrs. Bates. Well, as I remember, that's the way his notes started out.
Mr. Jenner. That [reading from notes] "I lived in Moscow from October 16, 1959, to January 4, 1960, during which time I stayed at the Berlin and Metropole Hotel"?