MARINA OSWALD (February 3, 1964)
Mr. RANKIN. Did you. discuss with him possible places of employment after his return from Mexico?
Mrs. OSWALD. No. That was his business. I couldn't help him in that. But to some extent I did help him find a job, because I was visiting Mrs. Paine's neighbors. There was a woman there who told me where he might find some work.
Mr. RANKIN. And when was this?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't remember. If that is important, I can try and ascertain date. But I think you probably know.
Mr. RANKIN. Was it shortly before he obtained work?
Mrs. OSWALD. As soon as we got the information, the next day he went there and he did get the job.
[Leading the witness, likely aware of potential time line issue, Marina delivers]
Mr. RANKIN. And who was it that you got the information from?
Mrs. OSWALD. It was the neighbor whose brother was employed by the school book depository. He said it seemed to him there was a vacancy there.
[Strange wording, "He said...". She didn't engage with Frazier so what ever he said must have come through LMR. If she brought up the TSBD the day before Oswald went there Frazier had no time to confirm anything and pass it back through LMR in just one coffee meeting. Red flag, and note the word "vacancy", like in job opening, like exactly what LMR denied having said...]
Mr. RANKIN. What was his name?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know.
[Strange, he chauffeured Lee back and forth to Irving and his name would not come up during the weekends? I call BS on that one]
The CHAIRMAN. Well, I think we have arrived at our adjournment time. We will recess now until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
Next day>>>
Mr. RANKIN. You said before that you learned about the depository job at some neighbor's home, it that right?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. In whose home was that?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know her last name. When you walk out of the Paine house, it is the first house to the right. I am trying to remember. Perhaps later I will.
Mr. RANKIN. Was it the lady of that house who told you, or someone that was a guest there?
Mrs. OSWALD. Perhaps you know the name.
Mr. RANKIN. We don't know the name of the lady next door. We know a number of names, but not by the location.
Mrs. OSWALD. Her first name is Dorothy. And there was another woman there, another neighbor, who said that her brother worked at the depository, and that as far as she knew, there was a vacancy there.
[There it is again: vacancy]
Mr. RANKIN. And what was the name of that neighbor whose brother worked at the depository?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know.
Mr. RANKIN. Was that
Mrs. Randle?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know. I might know her first name if you mention it.
Mr. RANKIN. Is there a
Linnie Mae Randle that you remember?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Was she a sister of Mr. Frazier?
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know such people.
[WTF? The coffee thing was ongoing so we must assume that for a month or so AFTER Oswald got the job (and possibly a month prior) she would have picked up the names Linnie May or Randle and didn't she thank Mrs. Randle for the tip? Makes no sense at all unless there is some serious fabrication going on here]
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know a
Mr. Frazier that had a job at the depository?
Mrs. OSWALD. I didn't know his name. I knew that it was a young man. I don't think he was 18 yet.
Mr. RANKIN. And was he the brother of this friend who was at the neighbor's house?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
[Improving...]
Mr. RANKIN. And he was the one that your husband rode from Irving into Dallas from time to time to go to work, did he?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, after Lee was already working this boy would bring Lee and take him back with him to Dallas.
[No doubt she knew who gave Lee a ride so what are the odds she never heard his name?]
Mr. RANKIN. And when did he take him, ordinarily?
Mrs. OSWALD. 8 o'clock in the morning.
Mr. RANKIN. And did he take him on Monday morning?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Usually each week he would take him on Monday morning?
Mrs. OSWALD. When Lee came for a weekend, yes.
Mr. RANKIN. And then when did he bring him back from Dallas?
Mrs. OSWALD. At 5:30 on Friday.
Mr. RANKIN. Did your husband ever come in the middle of the week?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, only during the last week when all of this happened with reference to the assassination of the President--he came on a Thursday.
Mr. RANKIN. Did Mrs. Paine have anything to do with your husband getting this job at the depository?
Mrs. OSWALD. She had no direct connection with it, but an indirect connection, of course. I lived with her and she talked to a neighbor and mentioned that Lee was out of work.
[Diversion, that's a yes/no question. Wording? But you were there also at the neighbor's place, remember what you said yesterday?]
Mr. RANKIN. Was it Mrs. Paine that
found out about the job, then?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. And she telephoned there and asked whether they had a job available. They didn't say anything specific but they asked that Lee come there on the following day.
[If Lee went to the TSBD on Oct 15 the coffee talk must have been on the 14th, time line is now fixed and no possibility of further backing backing up that meeting. This was later further established by Ruth Paine, or rather, she did a heroic effort to have it pinned on the 14th. Further posts will look into this...]
Mr. RANKIN. Did you find out whether your husband
did go there the following day?
Mrs. OSWALD. On the following day he went there, had a talk with them, and he telephoned that he had already received the job.
Mr. RANKIN. Did he telephone to you or to Mrs. Paine about getting the job?
Mrs. OSWALD. He telephoned me. But, of course, he thanked Ruth.
[Not according to Ruth Paine who picked up the phone! She was to thank Mrs. Randle whose name she just claimed not to know...this is the exact quote from RP:
Mr. JENNER - What took place by way of-- of conversation?
Mrs. PAINE - She said, "Hurray, he has got a job." Immediately telling me as she still talked to the telephone that he had been
accepted for work at the school book depository and thanks to me and she said, "We must thank Mrs. Randle."
]
Mr. RANKIN. And when did he start on the job? Was there two or three days before he got the job and started, or more than that?
[RANKIN blatantly leading the witness, again, want's to backup the time that the TSBD was mentioned, why is that?]
Mrs. OSWALD. I think that he started on the day following being accepted for the job. I think it was either on the 14th, 15th, or 16th of October.
[RANKIN's last question ignored but her memory has improved since yesterday! The 14th doesn't work since Lee then would have been down there on a Sunday for the interview...]
Mr. RANKIN. When he was staying at Mrs. Bledsoe's rooming house, did he call you and give you the number there?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
[Surprisingly she's not the least confused about who Mrs. Bledsoe is (which rooming house was that?) but didn't have a clue about Frazier's name...]
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall where he was when he gave this fictitious name?
Mrs. OSWALD. What do you mean where he was? From where he telephoned?
Mr. RANKIN. Yes, or the number that he gave you--that is the rooming house that he was at when he used this fictitious name, and you told us you called there.
[When did she tell you that?]
Mrs. OSWALD. He lived at first in one place, and then he changed. It was the last place where he had given a fictitious name. I don't know what name he lived under in the first place, because I never telephoned him.
[But Ruth Paine told the FBI (October 7 entry in time line) that Marina called Lee at the Bledsoe address...]
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know the name that he lived under in the second place,
when you did call him?Mrs. OSWALD. No.
[RANKIN asserts that she called him at the second address, did she?]
Mr. RANKIN.
You don't remember the fictitious name that he gave you?Mrs. OSWALD. I read in the paper after everything happened, but at that time I didn't know. He said that his last name was Lee. He didn't say that. I read that in the paper.
[OOPS -- you made that up didn't you Mr. RANKIN?]
Mr. RANKIN. Did that remind you, then, that
that was the name they gave you when you called and he answered the telephone?Mrs. OSWALD. No, No one told me anything. I didn't know under what name he lived there.
[Oh boy, RANKIN is screwed. Oswald allegedly did not answer at the Beckley rooming house.]
Mr. RANKIN. But you
found out that he was not living under his own name, is that what you meant before?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
[Going for second best...she read it in the paper...useless hearsay!]
Mr. RANKIN. After he got his job, did he return the next weekend to see you?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you remember whether that time he returned was on Friday or Saturday?
Mrs. OSWALD. It was on Friday, October 18. It was his birthday. He stopped with Ruth. On Sunday I went to the hospital, and he stayed overnight from Monday until Tuesday.
[This was one other exception to the rule of Frazier only giving Oswald a ride on weekends]