Mr. Jenner. When had he done that?
Mr. Stuckey. This was the night of the 17th at the radio station. Why he did this I don't know. I forget what the circumstances were. I recognized the card because, after all, I was a marine myself and I had one exactly like it.
Mr. Jenner. Did you, in the tete-a-tete in Comeaux's Bar discuss with him his attempt, when in Russia, to renounce his American citizenship?
Mr. Stuckey. No; we didn't, because that was alluded to in the broadcast and, as far as I was concerned, it was satisfactorily answered.
Mr. Jenner. He does respond—you say, and I am now turning to the document identified as Stuckey Exhibit No. 3, a transcript of that radio debate—in your preliminary remarks you advert to the fact that you had sought an independent source, Washington newspaper clippings—you advert to the fact that Mr. Oswald, and I am reading, "Mr. Oswald had attempted to renounce his American citizenship in 1959 and become a Soviet citizen.
"There was another clipping dated 1952 saying Mr. Oswald had returned from the Soviet Union with his wife and child after having lived there 3 years. Mr. Oswald, are these correct?" And he responds, "That is correct." I might say for the record that the date 1952 is the date that appears in this transcript, but the fact is that it was 1962. That was either a slip of the tongue or it is a typographical error, is that correct?
Mr. Stuckey. I think so.
Mr. Jenner. But in this informal conversation following the broadcast you did not pursue these subjects?
Mr. Stuckey. Not those. We discussed other subjects. He made another observation about life in Russia. He said things were extremely bland, homogenized.
Mr. Jenner. Did he elaborate on that?