Michael and I discussed the man at length after the assassination, and we talked about him a whole lot, so I don't really know whether it was before or after, but I now feel that he was very definitely against all enforcement people in general, and I don't know exactly when this impression came to me. But if I didn't already have this impression beforehand, I certainly had it afterwards.
I do know that beforehand, that he didn't get along with his employers and his fellow workers, or at least his employers, and he wasn't able to keep a job, and he didn't have respect for his employers, and this might possibly extend to law enforcement officials.
Mr. Liebeler. Do you feel that Oswald was, in general resentful of authority? There was resentment of his employers?
Mr. Krystinik. According to Michael, talking to him, we didn't talk about specifics, it was strictly generalities. It was 15 minutes that I talked to him, or 15 minutes or so that I talked to him.
Mr. Liebeler. Is this meeting that you had with Oswald in the ACLU, the only meeting you ever had with Oswald?
Mr. Krystinik. That was the only time I saw him up until I saw him on television.
Mr. Liebeler. And your impressions are based upon your conversation with him during that time at the ACLU meeting?
Mr. Krystinik. Based on that and what Michael and I have discussed in reference to him.
Mr. Liebeler. In the course of the conversation with Oswald at the ACLU meeting, did he tell you that he was a Marxist?
Mr. Krystinik. Yes. It seems to me that I commented to him that, "You are a Communist and I am a Capitalist," and I can't remember exactly what it was, but he corrected me and he said, "I am a Marxist." When I addressed him as a Communist, he said, "I am a Marxist."