Mr. Powers. I can't truthfully say. I think everyone at that particular time read more than they possibly did at any other period that they had in the Marine Corps. Mainly, you are in a limited space and this was the thing to do; it was easy to do, and you could entertain yourself this way.
Mr. Jenner. Yes. I take it it was not your impression, then, at least at this stage of the game, he devoted a great deal of his time to reading as distinguished from what other Marines were doing in that regard?
Mr. Powers. Well, I don't know. It seems to me when we were in Mississippi that he did read some—he was doing further reading than other—what the normal individual was doing at that time. I can't recall what would substantiate that in my mind; it just stuck in my mind that he did some reading, or all during this period of time that he was an individual that, rather than play poker or go out on liberty, he was just as well content to stay and read a book or things of this nature, and this may be that he was outside of the group and he did this to——
Mr. Jenner. You mentioned poker, so I assume that you played poker on the trip over?
Mr. Powers. I don't play. I don't play cards.
Mr. Jenner. Well, were there poker games, however, on the way over?
Mr. Powers. I imagine there was. There was card games to some nature, whether it was poker or something, I don't know. To be truthful, I don't recall.
Mr. Jenner. Did Oswald engage in the card games whenever there were——
Mr. Powers. I don't know; I don't recall.
Mr. Jenner. Do you recall whether he did any gambling?