Mr. Jenner. His own; or education in the abstract; or the need for education in order to attain accomplishments; or any regard to whether his status in life, his personal comfort, his personal peace, could be advanced by further education?
Mr. Thornley. No.
Mr. Jenner. Did you ever have the feeling of any discomfort on his part or inferiority because of his limited education?
Mr. Thornley. No. First of all, in the Marine Corps there is a prevalence of this kind of feeling among many of the enlisted men, and Oswald was exempt from it.
Mr. Jenner. What do you mean "exempt from it"?
Mr. Thornley. Well, he didn't, for example, have the usual bitterness toward somebody who read, well, just merely because he did read.
Mr. Jenner. He may have felt superior because he did read, did you have that feeling?
Mr. Thornley. Oh, yes.
Mr. Jenner. That was a definite feeling?
Mr. Thornley. I wouldn't say anything in my experience with him caused me to particularly notice that he felt superior because he did read. But except, yes, there is one time a friend of his, I don't know who it was, I haven't been able to recall the name at present, one morning looked over at our commanding officer who was walking by, Colonel Poindexter, an air ace in Korea——