Mr. Powers. That's correct.
Mr. Jenner. And you could read them or not as you saw fit?
Mr. Powers. Right.
Mr. Jenner. And your recollection is that you do recall Oswald did read "Leaves of Grass"?
Mr. Powers. Right. Whether he read the other books, I'm not sure, but this leads me to the impression that he was trying to read something that was deeper than the average paperback that you see in the drug store or something of that nature.
Mr. Jenner. These were books which you were interested in?
Mr. Powers. Yes; these were books which I was interested in mainly because the image that I held at that time that I was more educated than the other individuals and in order to maintain this image, and for my own personal satisfaction as well, I read these books, and I think this is—whether he read these books for his own personal satisfaction or to create an image similar to the ones that we had—I say "we," the people that had more education than the average marine there.
Mr. Jenner. Was he a voracious reader?
Mr. Powers. What do you mean by the word "voracious"?
Mr. Jenner. Did he read a great deal?