Mr. Bouhe. If he told me before, I swear I don't remember.
Mr. Liebeler. Now at the dinner at Gregory's, did you converse with Lee Oswald and his wife, Marina?
Mr. Bouhe. I did.
Mr. Liebeler. Would you tell us, to the best of your recollection, what was said at that time?
Mr. Bouhe. They were both very shy in the beginning, and to break the ice I used the age-old method of starting conversation on the subject in which the other person is interested, and since I was born in St. Petersburg, and according to newspaper reports and what you hear, Marina spent many, many years, or was even brought up in St. Petersburg.
This created in me an extraordinary interest to meet that person, for no particular political reason, but after you are gone from your hometown for 40 some odd years you would like to see if your house is still standing or the church is broken up, or the school is still in existence, or the herring fish market still smells.
Mr. Liebeler. You discussed those questions with Marina Oswald at that time?
Mr. Bouhe. Right. And also I had in my possession a rather large album of maps published in Moscow and purchased by me through V. Kamkin Book Store, Washington, D.C., the album being called the "Plans of St. Petersburg" from the creation by Peter The Great in 1710 to our days, and there were dozens of maps made at regular intervals, including the last one made under the Czarist Regime in 1914, which is really what I was interested in.
Mr. Liebeler. And you discussed those maps?
Mr. Bouhe. I took the map with me and we sat down on the floor and I asked Marina, if my school here, or that thing there, and just any exchange of pleasantries on that subject.