Mr. Liebeler. Did you consider this question prior to the assassination? The question is, tell us in your own words what opinion you formed of Oswald and what you thought about him at the time you knew him in 1962?
Mr. Gregory. I never minded him. I always enjoyed being with him. I enjoyed Marina more than Lee. She was a very pleasant person, very pleasant to be with, interesting. I can't say that I disliked Lee. He had bad qualities, but I mean, when we were together, I think he more or less put on his best front, because I think he considered me someone he could talk to. Because I think he considered other people beneath him, and he thought that everyone was judging him.
I think he felt that his brother—this is a personal opinion—that they were sort of taking him in out of the goodness of their hearts.
And I never expressed any judgment on it or even asked him or faced the matter as to why he had done what he did. Therefore, our relations were always good. But still I classified him as hot tempered, not very smart, and slightly mixed up. And I am sure about a good many other examples, but I am not a psychiatrist or psychologist.
Mr. Liebeler. When you are saying not very smart, are you talking about what your impression of what his intelligence or what his level of education?
Mr. Gregory. I am thinking of academic sense, inability to grasp things.
Mr. Liebeler. Basically a function of his IQ rather than his formal education?
Mr. Gregory. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler. Were you ever interested in his formal education, or make any inquiries on that?
Mr. Gregory. Yes; I was interested in it as to whether he finished high school, and that he had expressed to me desire to go on in higher education.