THE STRANGE WORLD OF MARGUERITE OSWALD In a tidy, unexceptional little house, an an un- killed. what 1 have in my possession will be scroll; Iwanted to get up to look at it, but l esceptionel block of unular houses (they were known. And I in my lifetime have got to con- felt this would be presumptuous. particularly be- seedy, but they were not squalid. and in some of tinue what I have been doing, using my emo- cause it was over a writing desk with orderly their front yards roses grew) in Fort Worth, tional stability and speaking out whenever I can. piles of papers, to which my Paul Pry eye would Mrs. Marguerite Oswald received me one Would you like a cup of coffee?" be bound to stray. Neer the television net (it steamy afternoon last May. Without inconse- Because there Wall no break between the confronted the sofa, and the vantage point from quential melt talk. beyond caking me whether proclamation of unwavering purpose and the which it would be looked I found the nit conditioning too cool or not cool at was directly under hospitable question, and because both were dr Mrs. Whistler) there son enough (it was exactly right), she plunged a low tripod, on which livered in the tame tone and at the same pace. stood a jardiniere planted with crotons. whose straightaway Iola her memoirs—or, rather. into I did not immediately take it m. But in a moment patterns were picked out in positive shades of those parts of her memoirs having to do with the I did and said I would. While she busied her purple and red and leonine yellow, the health •nest and murder of her son Lee Harvey that in the kitchen that abutted on the dinette of these leaves wan so obviously robust that they catapulted her to mtemational renown. at the end of the living room. she did not panne testified to a gtecn thumb and made a puzzling Her voice had a considerable hutnonie range: . io her soliloquy She caked herself questions and contrast to the fake !lowers and lake grapes in in a minute's time she could shift her tone from answered them in patient asides, "All the news other parts of the room. I had observed the same resignation to irony, from sonorous patriotism to mediums said he was euch a failure in life. A phenomenon in the small front yard, where personal indignation; but at all tones a central failure in life?" Her voice conveyed stunned heather, far from home and made of was and intelligence was at the controls regulating the disbelief. wire, emerged from a plastic pot. toward which pitch and the volume of mother. citizen, widow, "He was twenty-four year, old when he was a Few late tulips leaned their mortal, languid public figure. murdered! The attorneys that are interviewing heads. She declared at the beginning that she was them witnesses make a hundred to a hundred Mrs. Oswald, pouring hot water over instant "not a mother defending her son." but was and fifty dollars a day, and they never lived this coffee, was laying, "I can absolutely prove my "tpeaking for history," since history. she is per- type life. Lee Harvey Oswald a failure? I am son innocent. I can do it any time I want by going suaded. has been deformed by the puns and the smiling! ( think it took courage for a young boy to Wnthingtoo. D.C., with some pictures; but report of the Warren Commistion 't inquiry into to go to Bunia at twenty. for whatever reason I won't do it that way. I want to do it this way, President Kennedy's assassination, which it "all he went. I find this a very intelligent boy, and I getting my story before the public, so young and lies. lies. hes'. think be's coming out to history as very fine old all over the world will know the truth. Why I had gone to Tema to see Mrs. Oswald be- person." She spoke m the accents and cadences don't I go to Washington. D.C.? cause the S. es she herself said. -• mother in - of that part of New Orleans to which she was With this question, she turned to face me. history." And I had hoped that I might be able native, an accent that my late husband, A. J. arms akimbo. Embattled but still cool-headed, to discover from this visit tome of the accd- Liebling, once described as -hard to distinguish the answered it dente, loves, antipathies and idiosyncrmitt that "Because they've been so ugly. from the accent of Hoboken. Jersey City, and to Me and my boy. I'll write a hook. and the had mfiuenced the character of Lee Oswald. Atoms. Lang Island, where the Al Smith inflec- title of it will be 'One and One Make Two' or For all practical outposts, Marguerite Os- tion, extinct in Manhattan. has taken refuge. " 'Tills and That.' Oh.. I could write three books weld woo her s only parent, since his father son' Point is perm and person it poyson. or five books! I could write hooka and died before he was horn, books and her later marriage Accustomed as she was to public speaking. on what I know and what I hove researched. lasted too Assn a time to have much effect on " hem. Mn. Oswald did not new to be addressing me My own research, this cursory inspection of rnecifically but, rather, a !mac congregation; her living room. had yielded little but the obser- Mrs. Oswald, an inactive Lutheran. believes this was to be her manner with me on each of vation that whoever lived hem was • good haute- that -If ye leek, ye shall fled," that at last "troth the three occasions I sow her. Taking advantage keeper of modest meant, and hoping In set trill prevail." and "to correct the false imprem- of my anonymity in this crowd and her the fact that back in time, to the days before the concussion of her son and of herself under which her back was turned. I looked around the room that had stunned the world. I asked her ahout most of the nation and moat of the world labor, and tried to think what sort of occupant I her early life in New Orleans. But if doe is dedicating her life to her own investigation. she had would assign to 'a if I did rot already know any nostalgia for that most raffish and romantic From early morning until night. she is at work who she was. of cities. she had suppressed it, and the brushed "researching the case," collating newspaper The house itself was • white stucco bunga- me aside as if there were no time for frivolous stones, studying the theories of conspiracy that low, divided into two apartments, and as I. had have been propounded fines Los Angeles to parentheses when the Issitinees at hood was his- gone up the short path, I had noticed a "For tory. Wet Berlin. -reading between the lines- in die Rent" sign at the approach to the other ride. "Now, maybe Lee Harvey Oswald was the Warren Report, and the accepts any invitation Each apartment consisted of a living room- anamin,- the pursued, stirring the coffee. "But anywhere to appear 011 platforms or on television dining ream that then turned a corner and he - doe. that make him a Imam! No. no. Killing screens, to pus, on her observations and to in- came a kitchen: off the living room there was a doesn't necesurily mean badness. You find kill- terpret them. For several months after the 7111113- small bedroom and, off that, a heth. The two mg in some very fine homes for one mason or lination. she traveled widely throughout this kitchen doors opened onto • common hack another, and as we all know, President Ken- country and through Canada. "My theme n the porch, screened and looking out to a downward- nedy was a dying man. So I say it is possible American way of life." she laid. "and this was sloping lawn and pleasant shade trees. that nay son war chosen to shoat him in a mercy what I talked abOUL.. The space war limited: but Mrs. Oswald had killing, for the security of the country. And if want the Innis known." the said to me. arranged her furniture deftly, no that I did not this is true, it sitting erect on a sofa, her hands crossed at wan a fine thing to do and my son the feel nudged, and the furniture itself. while it was n hero. wrists, palm upward. "I believe the .Amerman " was middle-aged and had been nondescript all I was caught off guard by these speculations people are entitled to the truth, and I believe its life Concept for a Danish modern chair up they want to know. Now, I will agree that im- - tutted at irrefutable fact., and I breathed deeply holstered in carroty polyethylene). was solid before I said, "I had not heard that President mediately after the antatsination and while Pres- and m good repair and comfortable. The arm- Kennedy was dying." Indeed, the conjecture ident Johnson teat taking the piece of President chair I sat its was hard enough and wilt enough, was a new one to me; but later on. learned Kennedy, let me say in all respect that this was and there was an adequate table to the right of I not the time to bring these midst before the pub- that it is popular in certain quarters where the it, on which stood an ashtray. a small vase of Warren Report is repudiated. lic. But after his time in office. most people think artificial violet. and a copy of The Wounded "Yes, yet... —I don't agree. but that's beside the point— she went on with authority. My Lund, Hanes Hake's highly emotional observa- ignorance did not surprise her. On the contrary, that lie a a very powerful President and the tions about the character of the American assassination Omit hat subsided. I think thew she seemed accustomed to dealing with people people after President Kennedy', anassina- truths should be leaked now, and if in Me leak- who, either through laziness Of want of wpm,. Pon. The wells were that general color that can Minty, were not in pouession of mg they can prove to me that my son was the the most signifi- be called beige or ecru or bone or buff or oat- cant evidence. "It's been in many articles that assassin of President Kennedy, I won't commit meal. and hanging no the longest. over a sofa President Kennedy was a dying President. that suicide or drop dead. / will accept the facts as thronged with multiform and multicolored he had Atkinson's disease, which is a disease • goad, straight human being. But up until this cushions, was a print of Whistler's mother. The of the kidney. and we know that he had three day, they have not shown me any proof. and I glen that protected it was spotless, and the operations on hi. back and drat he would have have things in my possession to disprove many bras identification plate was smartly bornithed. things they say. I understand all the testimony been a lingering President. For security reasons. I could oat tell whether the picture was a recent of the cuff is in Wulrington and will be locked we could not have a lingering President, be- acquisition or was daily treated with polish and came of our conflict, with other nationa." She up for seventy-five years. Well. I've got news a, chamois skin: it was clearly cherished. turned tome. smiling broadly. "Do you take for post. It will not he for seventy-five years. On another wall but oblique to my line of because if today or tomorrow I am dead or cream and sugar, sweetheart?.. yid., there hung what teemed to be a •■•01,164,1.4 ••• copper Her affable have / continued on page /92

113 something, and nithin tentatively I screwed up bee eyes in an amiable The strange world of *eked. "The same people? Which grimace, to show that she forgave Marguerite Oswald people were these?" my intrusion into something that corn...rued from page 113 "They.- Said Mee. Chnualrit and was none of my businnes shook hands with herself for em- I hacked out of this deed end and Make a was round and Lindell', and the phasis. "When I say they, I'm going returned to the avenue of the pest I skin that covered her small bones to quote Mr.. Kennedy when her had tried to guide her down before: wm delicate; her eyes were dear husband wise killed. She said, 'They I "eked what her son's hobbles had special day behind glasses in pale framer. and have killed my jack,' and f my they been as a child. her clean white hair, only • little In the Wane text. They, who are they? "He had a stamp collection," she smudged with leftover gray, was Ahl I have my awn theory, and I'm said fondly, "and be loved to play more so, with pulled back straight into • plump sure everybody elm has. There was Monopoly, which is • thinking game and fauhless hon. She ware a Shoe- one or two others that I isn't So was sumps. He hod a stamp green sheath that vim appropriate at this moment to my 'they.' I thirds coilectinit Re loved to piny chew one of many to her short steture and her tubular. Governor Connally said, 'They are he was • very good chess player. well-corected construction. She going to assassinate us ell.' les al- And anything like that So he wan Lenox Gifts wonld. I think, be called "modish," ways they." really a very busy little boy, end I Her general appearance and her My interviews with Mrs. Oswald don't are anything abnormal about air were consistent with the several took place in the third or fourth week any part of his life. He'd climb up like these: rola elm has played in her fifty- of the troubles in the Dominican Re- on the roof to look at the seers, And eight years: insurance agent, sale public. and suet as, in reeding the I'd been to get the older boys to get lady, manintress of lingerie shop., report. of those, I could not keep the him down, hemline he we. interested practical none dramatis personae on the proper sides in astronomy. I'm talking about a Terms of endearment came net-o- boy eight, nine, ten yearn old. Arid rally to her lips. as they do to those he loved, he ;tut loved to read very of many Satitbein women: they are deep books. He liked Darwin, Hem- seductively ingratiating and coolly ingway, Norman Vincent Peale. noncommittal. When he went to visit my sister, all I she said she saw him read was comic Ellerin' delivered my creamed and boob, end this is what she said to sugared coffee, Mrs. Oswald re- the Warren Commission. Well, that established herself with her own nip era. true, and he did like comic an the .fa beneath her generic Sit- hooks. Isn't that normal in a young ter, Whialtiar'. Mother. and continued: boy? 'Now, it could have been that my "He loved to read about animals. son and the Secret Service were all He been all about animate. You involved in a mercy killing I have know, they said he played hooky in thought Minot this seriously. We New York, and he did, and then, of teach our boys to kill in war, and we courses we had to go to the heard don't think a thing about it: yet if sevens! times, because he wee always these same boy, kill someone en the picked up In the Brans Zoo, We greet, they are lawfully put in jail only lived about two blocks from or else electrocuted, which im right there, end this is where they would So why wouldn't it be just a nor- shims find loins, because he loved mal thing to have a merry killing auiroals. Someone said, Well, at of the President?" leant it wee educationer I have to She uttered the word. "merry kill- smile a little bit because boys play ing" as if this were Ea commonplace hooky. I don't say it's the right as reducing a fever with aspirin. thing to do, and I don't say children "If he au dying of an incurable (or en top) of the proper fences. to should do ie. but 1 certainly eton'T di.ease, this would be for the security now "they" rearmed about me like think it's aboonsil. But they env_ of one country. Now, when Presi- gnats. Mids.. fruit Sin end sand tinnedme and they cautioned rue, dent Kennedy came to Fort Worth. fleas, impoesibk to differentiate. I and finally they brought Ira into Tessa for one night there woe an could net and my way out of the court, and Lee wan taken from me, article In the paper that said the cloud. end AO I bent my heed and and he was placed in a children's maid at the lintel Two had fixed drank souse coffee and clissod my home I think hewne in the home his rooms for him and had to redo eye, and tried to concentrate Svc or .1, weeks. and that was the bed because he had his own hard "If any son was an agent of the Warwick—I think that was the name mattress. Even for one night- Be United States, this should he known. of it In Brooklyn. must have been very bad elf. And I wonder why Chief Justice Warren "After the assassinatinn, all of this his rocking chair is still the way it had tears in his eyes when President came out. and that Lee needed Joey- was, with the towel in the back be- Johnson asked him to head up this chletric treatment and an on end so cause he was in such pair"-" commission. I wonder why." She forth, and that I refused and that— Now there floated acmes ray mind meditated bristly. "Did Chief Justice well, this win e clue to the assassina- a foggy memory of hearing it el- Warren have to whitesemh some- tion. I would have to read you the mored that the -President had Ad- thing the public don't know about? Warren Commission Report on Lee's dison'. disease, which is note ell.- Did he brow my SOU was innocent? psychiatric treatment and tear it one of the kidneys. but a deficiency Who used my son? This is the noes. apart. I was never told my son of the adrenal glands, and thanks to tion I must find the emwer to. Re- needed psychiatric treatment, believe cortiSone, it la en longer fatal. I search and research, until I ran bring me. Arid this mats, I forget his name, asked Mn- Oswald If Ike had meant the truth to light. My eon Win killed I stepped on his toes, and sometimes this when she bad spoken of "Atkin- on cue, end this I ran prove. The I wonder, did he hold it against me son's" disease. television camerae were ready and enough to harm my Sart? By the ()nee again, she found my inter. the TV director" gave- the order. As way. do you know that he is Mayor minion irrelevant and answered Mai- I understand it, mouse important men Wagner's right-handed man? How nly. "Whatever." and put me down, in the networks got in trouble, bet do you suppose be got from proba- r,4 along with her coffee cup, which she their jobs and everything. But that's tion officer into an official rapacity returned to its saucer. "Ari I was beside the point. What I want to in New York State?" saying. as we all know, Lee Harvey know is who used Lee Harvey Os- Oswald, alter leering the Team Book wald?" his time, she really seemed to Depository, got off the bus and got The question won rhetorical and I want an answer; but since L did Into a taxi. This was right by the wet put to the unarm audience. but not know who Mayor Wagner'. Greyhound bus antlers tact it a I answered it with mother: 'Do you "sight-handed man" was, let alone strong likelihood that he went into have any idea?" what his credential were. I had to the bus station to make a telephone "I don't have an Wm; I know," disappoint her - cell to the people he was working she said. "And of tour= when I and In view of the mass of detail she with, to my the merry killing had out who framed my son, then we can had at her command and the dex- come off? Maybe he did, maybe be find out who billed Kronedy. I go a trous use she made of it to fit her didn't. But if he one guilty. why little different way than most of the argument, I felt, at times like this, didn't be get on a Sus and get out of books on who killed Kennedy. My like a flop an a debating team who Dallas? This theory Ste in with the theory is a little different, bemuse I had never reached the thuds. other theory. So were they all sub- know who framed my son, and he "I find these Mirage very, very in- versive and in a plot? Or were they knows I know who framed my son," teresting," she said, "because as Tin all humanitarian and in a plot? The Knowing thot the question Aral remerching Lee's life—sod I'm not same people, though." useless. I put it to her anyway. I the only one—it looks as though I wandered if, in my musings on said "Is 'he' in Texas now?" this boy's life has been supervined. her plants and parephernalia when "1 can divulge nothing on that But if I stress thin, they say. "This she wan in the kitchen. I had mimed score" she said brusquely, but woman is out of her mind. Let's 192 McCoirs Oc+obs, ItIt

put her In a mental institution.' feet on the back as a mother only no To begin with. the record of Mrs. Lutheran, orphanage when he was it gay?" that the people will understand Why Oswald', matrimonial misfortunes three. Sometime, they were at home She chuckled. sipped coffee, am I no concerned that the peo- shoots off at a forty-five degree an- changed from her official to her with their mother, and when they were ple will understand? It ie natural, gle from the norm. She won aban- old chatty voice, and said "Lee loved enough. they got jobs to pay for because I am a mother in history . doned by her first husband, Edward their board and animals! With his first pay, he keep. I am in twenty-sin volumes of the John Pic, when her child by him, The family moved with &saying bought a bird and ■ rage, and f have Warren Report, which is all over the John Edward, was an infant; the frequency while they lived In New a picture of it. at bought thin bird world, on I just defend myself and was widowed by Robert Lee Oswald with a cage that had • planter for Orleans and Later on when they lived defend my son Lee" when her first son by him was a child ivy, and he took care of that bird in and around Fort Worth. Some- She altered the position of a green and Lee Hervey wan not yet born_ times they rented •partments, and and he made the ivy grow. Now, you glass ashtray on the coffee table. Then, Her third marriage, to • Mr. Eck- sometimes they owned hears; very we there could be many aloe things as if she had given the matter sober dehl, was a hurricane. and while the often they lived in two-family written about this boy. But oh, no, thought and this was her considered lull before it was lengthy ("I made houses; when she was unencum- this boy is supposed to be the soma- opinion, die said. "/ would say that him wait a year") and the restora- bered. sin of a President of the United the Oswald family was actually an Mrs. Oswald stayed in lodg- tion period afterward was long. the ings. In both cities, their (addresses States, Bo be has to be a louse. Some- average American family." storm that rinsed the roof under which time f am very sad" were in similar neighborhoods. and I started to ea-peens my her sons John Edward Pie empathy, but I gut no and Robert Lee Onward, in farther than an introdue• their testimony before the tory murmur. Warren Commission. had "When 1 think of all the trouble remembering the things Lee didl" Ow went More than a gift... names of the streets where on. Her tranquility wee they had lived. ruffled. and her voice went Mn. Oswald emanated up a note or two. "How ifs a compliment when rendes/mesa and energy, ran- you call bite a loner and she had handed down or an introvert or what- her wanderlust to her sons, ever they wanted to call all of whom joined the him? Of course, after they it Lenox China Marines as early as they arrested him, they had to could_ At the same time. find an environmental fac- her nest-building instinct tor, and right away they For these are among the gifts was steadfast; it was. how- said we moved around • ever, the instinct of • mi- lot. Well. all right, what which grace the loveliest homes. gratory species that, inso- if we did? This is the twen- far as possible, duplicated, tieth century and people in successive nests, twigs move around. That's edu- and leaven from the same cational, isn't it? No mat- sort of tree and swatches ter when we were, we al- of the same kind of moss ways had a decent home and lichen. Nothing in the I wouldn't pit up with a room appeared to have piece of torn upholstery or more than the most ephe- something broken or any- meral association of time thing like that—I'd go to or place: whenever. in the the five-and-dime and get mane of my interviews I something and fix it up. asked her where she had You we how I live—nothing picked up • vase or a bowl fancy, but a bright touch, or a tray, she said, "Oh, • little decorator piece Isere that'. Ater * little decorator and there." thing I thought would go She waved both hands with the other colors gesturing toward the ship• Her sons, under her guid- theme and comely appoint- ance, were upright. "They ments of the room "And didn't CUM—of course I I never neglected my chil- don't say they didn't on dren. They were well fed. the outside, but they didn't Oh, yes, we didn't have in front of me. We none of steak. but we never even us used obscene language thought •bout steak-1 —oh. I might any 'damn,' didn't, I wee always grate- you know, sometime, but ful to e•t, And the children none of the boys. And nor never really and truly com- little thing I did with 'em plained. 1 know of one or --hut they never did know two occasions when the till later an in life-1 never boys mitt 'Mother, why let them have a key to the don't you have a platter of front door. I remember shops? I wan at such and Robert asking me, and I such a house yesterday. said, 'Oh, no, honey, it's and they nerved seconds' better you wake me up, be- and I said, 'Well, now, Cali. if I ever heard the honey, dila is all Mother front door, I would think it can do' If. say, three day, was • burglar or some- before payday, I had • thing.' But this wasn't the dollar and • half to my idea. I wonted to be sure name, I would cook up a that no boy of mine would big pot of amp or a big LENOX CHINA come Into my home drunk. pot of been. and cam- And I can truthfully say bered or a big pert of spa- not one of my children Ever ghetti and meatballs and entered my home stinko. make it last but I happen They probably had a beer to know mime women in on the outside, for I'm not that position who would rake that saying they're perfect. Now, What the components were that they dwelt together was br.er. The dollar and a half and go to the corner made up Mn. Oswald's image of I have no objection to social drink- restaurant and come home with h•m- household, therefore, was only spor- ing, and I've been to cocktail mirthes "an average American family" I adically manned by • roan. burger. and Coke, and there's your never learned. I raked, but the myself; but I don't drink, became difference. I have always done what tw- The Oswald economy was far horn alcohol doesn't agree with we at elves- was apparently Reif-evident. stable. tinder the terms of the brat I thought was nght. and I always and she ignored me. Since I do not all, but Lf I wanted to I would. did it in a true Chnatieo way. And divorce, Mr. Pie was required to "And Another thing. I never let know, either, how the sociologists contribute to the !support of hie son, even though we were poor and my boys have my car, because I I Was and statistician, arrive at this de- and Mr. Oswald had insured his life a widow end I did have to rupport thought they were too young to use nomination, it is quite possible that for a nominal sum. But these were myself and three children, I always she and her brood fitted into it. But it. and it was my livelihood, no I deemed to manage humble funds, and Mrs. Oswald, couldn't afford to let • teen-ager certain eccentricities of their circum- premed and proud and energetic. "I have often beret complimented stance had struck me when I had wreck it. I think this le a very nice about how 1 look when I'm deemed went to work The boys, in the ab- thing to say, a woman raising chil- read the acres of newsprint follow- sence of a full-time caretaker. were up, about my little home and about ing the assassination, and I doubted dren by herself. particularly boys. the way the children act and no on sent variously to schonle .d to I'm going to give myself credit foe that the word "average" was precise church-sponsored children's homes and so forth_ Now I'm petting myself or cam epprosimate. this, and I think I deserve It." Lee Harvey joined his brothers in a continued on page 194 steCalri, October Ott 193

p continued from page 197 where, with her back to me tut she suspense about Marina's origins was The room wo still cool, but the went about the Wrenn= of the coffee, resolved atmosphere was heavy, imbued with she prepared Marina for anatomise- As I rose to go. I asked If she times more power the mcandhand muslin.. of air-con- lion. "To me. Marina is not a true would object to my bringing a tape ditioning, and I won growing tired. person," she said "And this is hard recorder the following day: she mid Moe Oswald, however, was as fresh to explain. I have to oak myself who that, on the contrary, she would wet- to stop pain of as the had been when she greeted Marina Oswald really is. rd like come the arrangement—if, that is, I nn. to see her marriage certificate some- brought two machines, since she "You know, there was o violent time, and I'd like to know more wanted one tape to preserve "for campaign against ore u well HEMORRHOIDS I 83 my about her. Oh, when Marina went history." She had made many re- son in rn•g.ine., newspaper. and to Washington, Washington fell in cording,. she told me. for "moss me. Soothing lituatneslital concentrates written literature. Mort all the pa- love with Marine Oswald, and Chief dium." and for her awn purposes; an pain Prolonged relief pers pictured me in sort of a had Justice Warren was her grandfather. the knew that she 'poke at the rate light. but really Cm not that way at and everything was red of pain, burning and itching -carpet treat- of • hundred and eighty words a all and never W.A. I should any rm ment; but when I went to Wathing. minute. An operator would not be alert. in minute,. very outspoken, I'm aggressive. I 'm ton—'Don't listen to her!' Momms necessary; she knew "how to work no dope—let's face it, if you step on hadn' If you suffer the almost onbesrable t seen Lee in a year, and she 'cm all." my toes, rm going to fight back. doesn' misery of hemorrhoid., remember this t know anything, blah, blah, I started toward the bedroom to and I don't apologise for that This blah.' Everything won against me. about rensedies you can bur for tem- fetch my raincoat, and my eye drift - Wan my [reining along with Let's Now, don't say that Marina is porary relief. The leading -shrinking" I ed willy-nilly toward the scroll over father, who, a we all know. in now preperalien actually ennui/ft, no anes- necessarily guilty of anything; but the desk. l did not look at it directly deceased. When my older boy firm thetic to relieve that pain. went to school. he came home one No wonder so many doctors recom- day crying that the children had mend Nopercainal Ointment. Sooth- taken Ida pennies away from him. ing Nupercainai stops pain, itching, Mr. Oswald took his little hand, as I horning fest gives prolonged relief recall and started teaching him how —Demurs Nut:ermine! Mu On, eight to fight beck, and 1 listened. and I mincer /118/8 power than thought It was a wonderful thing. the other meat commonly-used topi- As I remember him eying, 'If you cal ari.dectic! ever start a fight, you're going to be Nupercainol quickly puts raw whipped. but if they MAT start nerve ends to sleep ...dant put. pain fight with you and you don't fight to deep. Lela you go shout your busi- back, Cm going to whip you.' I nern relieved of the 'tabbies poin, continued that with Lee. burning and itching torment of hem- "Now, my boys were never tied to orrhoids. Get Nonni-mine! Ointment my apron strings. And Lee—Lee today—hearty applicator with each wanted to know all there was about tube. Start to live again, in comfort! life. Tatting about going to Roania. He never did tell me why he went to Ronnie. I have my own opinion. lippersainar He spoke Russian. he wrote R.I. aian and he read Russian. Why? Because my boy was being trained as an agent. that's why. Another thing I found out in some book, Nuperaiinal. where it mid he was pieced in an- OINTMENT other but because he couldn't get along with someone. He was placed with a Cuban. and he was learning Spanish. I think he was spying on that Cuban. It its •1111I so obvious. Now. how merry Marines are going around reading Russian and getting merman.. nd 8.33tmAy. Russian newspaper.? One and one make two to me. That boy wee he. ing trained." one thing I will say, she has lied hut, instead. at a painting on wood T asked her what she thought Lee continuously. Maybe she's not guilty of • baroque orange-and-chestnut 1 would have done with his life if be of anything, but why a it necessary newel-post (a detail from backstairs had not been killed, and she an- to lie? at Blenheim Castle?), which she dis- swered immediately, as U she had "When it first happened, Marina missed: "A little decorator thing. I answered the question many times did not identify the rifle. She mid, thought it would go with the choir. before. "From what I know of my 'Yes, Lee had a rifle,' but when But now this, this Is important, this boy. and of course you have to un- they showed it to her, she said she is what you should lee." and she derstand that actually the last time couldn't say whether that was his. took the scroll down from its hook . I was very close to Lee was before Now. this is understandable. If your "I was going to show you this," she he joined the service in nineteen fifty- husband had • rifle, and particularly said. "Here, the man can wait a six- After that it was hat through if he had it. st. they say he had it, minute—I guess he's getting paid. It's a modern Cinderella correspondence and on his leaven wrapped up in a blanket and never isn't he? You get out your notebook, home from the Marines that I knew using it, how would the wife be able honey, and copy it down. and be story. Almost every worms him. But every time he came home, to identity it? Yet a few weeks later. sure you get the word. right." who develops uterine can- he talked and talked and talked when the had taken oath and had The legend, rut into copper. read: about the Merina end nothing el., been brainwashed by the Secret "MV SON — cer can be cured—if the can- I know when he came back from Service, she identified the rifle as "LEE HAVVEY OSWALD eve-, err. no cer is discovered early and Japan, he mid. 'Oh, what • won- Lee's. And at RIM she mid. 'Lee good DEATH HAS DONE WNW row fiT5 [MN- treated promptly.The -Pap- derful experience, what a wonderful man, Lee no shoot anybody' And 79Y THAN ANY OTHER LIVING HUMAN tens!' He Raid. 'Do you know it cant then she changed her testimony. main tem—a simple, painless ex- my government over two thousand Marina seems French to me," "StUantrortt C. 08W ND" amination which your doc- doners to send me there? I could "French!" As I was writing down this pri- tor can make in his office — never afford it on my awn.' I think "Yes, sweetheart, that*. what I vate, pyntectically abstruse manifes- be was doing with his life what he said. Marble Oswald seems French can detect uterine cancer in to, Ms. Oswald brought my things wanted to do. And I'm going to say to me." She came back with our and smiled disarmingly. "Of course, this early, curable stage. he was working for his country as coffee, and as she put mine down be. I'm not a writer like you," she said. Make the "Pap" test part MI agent. I think that at age sixteen aide me, she said, "But that will "But I like how that sounds. That's he became involved, that at age have to be continued in our next. what I said at the year period, when of your annual health sixteen Lee Haney Oswald wan be- You'll have to drink up. honey. I went to the greve. Newspaper re• checkup. Fight cancer ing trained as a government agent- Your driver'. here." porters came by the galore and asked with a checkup—and a And this brings up Russia and of I had not heard a car, and shrub- if I had anything to say, and I said course, Marine." bery obscured the window that looked this. And every word of it is true check. sent to CANCER, I was glad she had broached the onto the street: but when I peered I'm proud of my sow and why not? c/0 Postmaster. subject of her daughter-in-law, since through the interstices of it, I HIW My son is an unsung hero!" AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY I had been shy of doing no my- that she was indeed right, and I be I thanked her for giving me so self, knowing that there was bad gam to respect the ninth sense she had much of her time, and I thanked her blood between the two women. several time, mentioned she had I for the coffee. Her handclasp wan "Let's have same more coffee be- respected also, her dramatic sense of firm and straightforward. and her fore I go into that." the said. and timing and wondered how I would eyes shone with enthusiasm and once again the went into the kitchen, live through the hour. until my continued on Peke I96 194 McColl'', October 1565 313

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continued from page 194 my fingers in a virtuoso petrol.. the cockroaches, which is all right, truly do, but It's jug like 'How do satisfaction end optimiam. -We're mance, unique in my experience, en but a foreign girl knows how to clean love you?' It is just something that rang to win In the end." that when she returned with the dis- up these things. And of course she doesn't make some, you know, end I Wee not rare whether the "we" heartening news that, since it area knew French, too. you know it I sensed this almost was editorial nr whether I hid now Saturday. the shop wee closed, I nom "By the way, there's one letter in when I first met her, that she didn't been initiated into • coterie whose delighted to point to the arnoothly the Warren Commission Report from look Russian. She Mamie Ionic Rus- adversaries were 'they," revolving wheel.. Run. from Lee that said he mar- sian at all" "Weil, now! Ii we just keep at • ried thie girl and she spoke p little I recalled that whets I had men taken Mrs Oswald at het thing, well get it to go in the end, French. Well, the letters had to be the heat photographs of Marine, I word. I refused the offer of a isn't that the truth?" she mid. "Oh, retyped. heroine they didn't photo. had been reminded of the flawed lesson when the man delivered the I can tell we'll work well together! graph well, and they omitted the beauty of piste In Soviet Elms, no tope recorder. Co my hotel. This was Right here it's proved that we're word 'French.' If you use • magni- fare had ever looked to me more unwimi despite her asturance that mechanical genius:' fying glass and look et L.CE'Y letter, Rtlealea. she could "work 'con an," Mrs, Os- She picked up her microphone and you will see that Marina speaks "She looks French," Mrs. Oswald wald could not work there, and I spoke info it dearly. Because she French- Now 1 oak myself: Was went on. "Now, the only thing I'm had never clapped eye, an • tape Trice groped for a word and because this deliberate or woo thfa just en ours of is that I had nothing to do recorder before in my life, After • her undertone, end overtones and error? But when you End OD many with the assassination. Ira not sure quarter of an hour of bungling ex- rhythms altered at such cleverly stra• error, and so moth coincidence, then about anybody else. And because I perimentation. plugging and unplug- legit times. I. the only visible mem- you begin to wonder if something's am looking for the truth, everyone ging. punching bottom and shifting ber of her audience, on persuaded, hems whitewashed, if there haft it under suspicion in a way. You levers, reversing bobbins, proatImaly even when 1 head the imaginary something more to it then meets the see, I don't know who's who I know studying the instructions, we were grumbling, from the back of the eye. that I had nothing to do with it, but both exasperated. Sitting on the house that her logic was wobbly md everybody else I have to evaluate, Boor, with Our heir awry, amid fur- her deductions were questionable. nd Marina knew English. Marine and Manna doesn't ring true. Of niture that we had dislodged in our "Now about Maria. being a true A and I conversed If they say course, I never beard anybody else futile fiddling, we were exasperated or untrue person." she begin. stating that Marina didn't know English, say she was French. But 1 have my with the contraptions and with mark the text for the day. "Marina, as I that's baloney. She could understand reasons for saying this, which will other, and Mr.. Oswald amid with have said. seem. French to rot. I perfectly well; but when elm went he very delicate. She doesn't ring same asperity, that them were ie..- hove remarched everything shout out anyplace, aloe didn't open her true. to begin with. in respect to ferios machinea that i should not Maririn over and over. And, for mouth. and she made out ahe didn't motherhood. Even if she thinks in have cot corners when matters of example, when she went to New Or- speak or understand English. This her mind that Lee wan guilty, the such importance were at stoke hut, leans, she mid she didn't want to whet I mean she's not a true thing to do was protect him for her having theses to do so, I should live in an apartment with high ceil- person.' children's sake and for her cake. No. have Seamed how to operate the mis- inp. Now, where does she know "But why do you think she I. I'm not speaking .hour lying, be- erable things. about the high ceilings? A girl French?' I pursued, unsatisfied with cause I don't believe in lying. But if She went into the bedroom to tele. from Russia? There may he a the proposition that an aversion tO she had met him outside of Rumia. phone the .loop to ask for help, and answer for this and all the other high ceiling. and cockroaches was she would never have married him, while ahe wu gone, luck visited me thing.. but 1 don't have it, and I Gallic. because of the type he wee and in a dulling revelation and piloted went it. And the complained about "I wish I could go into this, I so on and on forth_ Theta just 196 mcConr. Ocieher 1ted downing him mare and more not to leaving Lee, This is m black and what Freud said himself. Shut off for them, and at the time I wondered protect him. and yet she's the mother white. I'm not tensioning three your tape. dearheart.” what mariner of man he was. of him children_ Thin u not true of things, and thank God there are ether I did am I was told, anticipating a -Well. now let me tell you about womanhood or motherhood. Even people taking this up. I say thank confidence she did not want recorded, Marguerite Oswald being a mental if be was a louse. she would defend God because there are some people but all she said wet, "Don't you case. When I read that, i misid to him to • certain return. She never who think I have hallucination—t think it's too bat for coffee today? myself. 'Now, those guns are worth gm. out to the cemetery. She did know it's bean sold in the Warren Let toe make you a gime of iced tea. a great deal more than ten thousand at the very beginning, and every- Report. Some attorney said point- Fee got some nice Indian iced tea dollars, and Marina should get more thing was fine, and then when she blank, 'Do you think your sister—' with kind of a spicy flavor." money for my grandchildren.' I am was taken over, the started chang- this was said to my sister—'do you thinking about the welfare of my ing. think that your sister has hallucina- °'Yshe was wearing • blue grandchildren. So I called up the 'And whether it was for the se- tions?' Why is this? Because I no- Tdenim jumper and a perky red- Fort Worth 'Star Telegram' and told curity of the country, whether this tice the inaccuracies and coincidences andwhite.striped blouse. and the them what I thought. T said. 'Those was bet role. whether the. being and things that don't jive? I know was shod in sneakers. She looked afi guns ore pricelesa, but If they're go- threatened—which Is a possibility— acme who wouldn't hesitate to try carefree and fun-Invms ea the wife ing to be sold, let's see some justice whatever rtaWala, It's not a nice rea- and make a mental cam out of rne, of the man in the ads who has re- done to the children of Lee Harvey son. and dun is why she's not a true and believe me, if anybody's In their tired to Florida at the age of fifty, Oswald' And just last week, there person. First she amyl, `In good right mind, it's Mn. Marguerite Os- thanks to taking the advice of his was an item in the Fort Worth Stet man, Lee ao about anybody: and mad. farsighted insurance broker. Telegram' that said a Frenchman everything won inin Lee's favor, and "No matter what Marina doe., I felt that she should have been had offered twenty thousand. So than all of • they get ahold it's news: but locally I can show telling me more about the iced tea: do my bit, but nobody knows. And of her, and they put her on televi- reporter. something art black and but even as she emptied ice tray. it's a shame I'm not unhappy. You Kinn, and the says she think. in her white, and they won't give me cov- clamorously and rattled spoons, she can see I'm not, can't you? But I'm mind that her husband is guilty, and erage. This js the difference. This rode her tempest "Maybe you saw a mother in history, I'm all over from than on, her husband'. • louse_ is where the human element come. where Marina was offered ten thou- the world. There's two Frelidenta in Them are the things that put don't in. And this is where I have been sand dollar, for the guns? The gun my life, and my son's the one ac- jive. persecuted and have suffered just that killed Kennedy and the tele- cused You know, here la Mrs. Ken- like my son Oh, I can hear the 'alio' scope eight that went with it and the nedy. a very wealthy woman. Mrs. 11 the witnesse. told how immedi- when they read this—here Is Mra. gun that killed Tippett?" Tippett, a very wealthy woman. and ately, when they had • home Oswald feeling sorry for herself. No, I said that I had 1 had been Marina is very wealthy, and here I'm of their own, Marina started to com- no, I'm not feeling sorry for myself. dumfounded. ere • matter of fact, wondering where my next meal is plain about my son and talked about but I know for a fact that I have that the weapons had not teen ac- coming from. It's almost unbeliev- her *cruel hie and denounced him been persecuted What's wrong with quired by the FBI or the Smith- able, .rid sometimes ifs almost like and an on and so forth and left him Mc., Oswald? Why don she think sonian Institution; but I had been • spiritual." to go and live with these Russian she's being persecuted? Is she men• reminded that they belonged to the She brought me s dewy glass of people that had made friends with tally unbalanced? I have been asked dead man's estate and were now tea with a splay of fresh mint. Et her. Now, why? I ask, why? A that question publicly. No, no. Marina'. to dispose of as she wished. was delicious and mysterious. Roman girl just arrived in the Without persecution. there wouldn't The 'tory I had read said that "a "Here we are, we four women in United States, right away she started be a persecution crimples.. This is private collector" was negotiating continued on page 198

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beside rise was full of cigarette stubs. continued from page /97 assassination, I was mining, and I another thing, I was a little miffed. I We stood up, and both of Us history, and yet 1 urn the mother; heard it on the radio. that my son, accepted it; but they left without but has anyone come forward to re• Lee Harvey Oswald, bad been taken telling me they were leaving. I was stretched. like women who had drme imburse me for my emotional stabil- into custody. I earn, right home there that afternoon, and they left • hard day's work. The room was ity? No, no and I have given of and called the Fort Worth 'Star the nest morning, and there'. more cluttered with exhibits, and the fur- myself. I have given of my time Telegram' and asked them to send to it than that, but never mind. And niture was still out of place, where and try voice, and I have twenty- over a press car to take me to Dallas. I thought, well, when they get good we had moved it to accommodate three hundred dollars to my name. and ready, they'll come and see me. the recorders. I'm not complaining. I have my vvu\T con push the button on again I hadn't seen John Edward for years I offered to help Mrs. Oswald health I eat well. I sleep well. I'm vu We can drink our tea and before, or Robert either. and I felt. tidy up, but she said, "No. no. I not brooding-but isn't it steerage? talk at the same time. Is there any- well I'm their mother, and when they don't have another thing to do. I Now, I made a television interview thing you want to ask me?" get ready. it's their place to come and was hoping I could give you a bite with Belli. in Loa Angeles, and we "Yes, there is," I said. "When did see me. 1 don't worry about them of supper, but I suppose you can't stay." were no good they wouldn't stop the you Last see Lee?" any MOM. cameras but wanted us to go on for "I saw Lee in the jailhouse after "And this was the attitude I took "No. I can't." I amid. "I'm sorry." an hour instead of the half hour. the assassination, and he was all with Lee and Marina. They lived She laughed. "If you cahn't, you cahn't," she said, parodying o broad And do you know what I got for bruised up, with black eyes and all. with me for • month, and then they "a" that dues not esiet in toy speech. that? A hundred dollars. Yet Rich. mad I mild, 'Honey, did they beat moved out. I'm a working person, I and Burton was on the same pro- you?' And he said, 'It isn't any- here to pay my own rent, make my "You go on back to Dallas, and you be fresh for tomorrow, because we've gram the nest night, and he got five thing, Mother. I just got in a scuffle own living. and I don't have the still got • lot to talk about, hear? thousand dollars. And whet do you Now, this is normal; he wouldn't money or the time to run beck and Tomorrow!" She was struck with a think he did with it? He gave it to tell his mother if he had been mix- forth. And they didn't have a car to charity. He isn't an American. yet treated by the police." come over here. You understand? sudden thought. "Now, tomorrow is Mother's Day, and I will go to Lee he gave it to charity, and here is "But before the assassination? And. too. I wouldn't have a place to Mrs. Oswald talking and talking How long bad it been?" put them up if they came to visit Harvey Oswald's grave, but I will about the American way of life, and "I hadn't seen Lee since October, me. Maybe if I had a three-bedroom be a mother gone, • mother in where's the rent money coming from? the end of October, nineteen sixty- house. Maybe then they'd take the history alone on Mother's Day." She You understand I don't care two. Just about a year, that would bus and come over for the weekend, was resourceful; she found a cheer- about money, Money Is only good make it. I mini to do liveln.s, and but I wen never in that position. I ful aolution to her dilemma. She to its use, but I need money to carry sometimes I'd be tam hundred miles am entirely alone. I do not have said, "I know. I'll take you." on the campaign against the cam. away; but the truth of the matter is, ven my children to dinners things paigo against me. and as a mother. Lee and Marina left Fort Worth and rth 1., e..siwi l.,eryLas left- nfernal thunderclaps shocked me I think I deserve it. I got fired from didn't even tell me where they were. nded, tad I awake on Mother's Day, and the rain on my windows sounded like my job as practical nurse because of I called Robert and he said Lee bed eMonhe gun...iLWOU4smakc the assasainatIon. and it broke my a box number on him. and I told difference, an I celled Robert, and kettledrum sticks in the hands of I gang of demented juvenile delin- heart. I didn't nuke only five dollen Robert to make sure he took care of firwloiildn't answer these important week. but I was glad to work for his brother and no on. I was not questions" quents. A dolorous gloaming hung in my room. and the rushing wet- that, because I WWI doing it for in a position financially to help. She talked until the tapes were humanity. The very day of the working the way I was_ And finally used up and the ashtray ness outside was a palpable vapor 19$ MtColl'i. October 1900

within. My impulse wan to eliminate carnival; but Sc I got out of the car, she explained. because she thought In the living room, the afitrma- the day by talcing a sleeping pill. realized that it was corning from I might be delayed by the storm- live voice went on: "I understand but I felt Inexorably committed to Mr.. Oswald's houve and that the she herself thought nothing of thew that Mr_ William Manchester tens geeing Mn. Onvahl again and going voice belonged to her, I knocked, funny Tens Worms and loved driv- commissional by the Kennedy family with her to her eon'. grave. For a unheard, several lames The tulips, ing through them. but the didn't to rewrite the even. of the three days loos time, I lay abed dawdling over i sow, had been decapitated by the know how people from Iviassachia• and his book will be out on Novem- • great pot of coffee and the Dallas wind, and their stems were limp setts took to wild West weather. ber it, 1961. I would like to say now t ere.s_ Floundering through the dim- among the stiff apse: of the Mlles- I made out these observations unless Mr. William Manchester dis- paMbee from South Vietnam end ibie heather. largely by reading her lips, since her cussed my life and any son's life the Dominican Republic, I had the recorded voice drowned her out. She personally with me, thee hook will dislocating feeling that I was not t en injustice to a mother!" let me in and turned the volume also be inaccurate. Many of the reacting about the culmination of shouted Mrs. Oswalces disem- down and invited me to Join her in readers ere wondering, 'Well. why erica today thee would be annulled bodied voice. "If this was true, the • snack. I thanked her end refused doesn't Mrs. Oswald put oL of this by different crises tomorrow, but facia couldn't hurt me so deeply, or I end asked if I might put my socked into ant book, On we can get some that I woo trying ID get into my would say, 'Consider the source.' umbrella in her bathroom. of the true story?' It is impossible, head the complicated farts of a fail But this quote, along with many The living room wan even Melee dear reader. accompli for a history examination. others, has gone all over the world, ditheveled than it had been when I "To begin with. this book would The living. rearent end inexplicable and I have been attacked publicly as left it The coffee table was piled have to be researched for about a chaos woe the assassination of Presi- • mother by television COmmetaa- high with newspaper clippings and year or an And no one has come dent Kennedy, which had taken place tont They sold I was going barn parnphlebi and Xeroxed documents; to my aid-no publisher with the only houre-or even minuses-ago. place to place speaking in befall' of the lid. of the tape recordera lay on money, or a writer to do this type Probably the Warm through which coy son. Was it because I wanted the floor. and their canvas covers work, So until that time and money we drove to Fart Worth waa not in vindicate myself e. a mother? were wadded up, AS if someone had In afforded me, I will do the but unique In my experience. but I do not What an awful thing) I have taken meant to throw them out but hadn't I can. I will admit it is not enough. recall any to equal its infuriated this with all the con:mm.11re I know gat around to it. Evidently. Mrs. but as a mother I am doing the best lightning and its dooming detona- how. but inwardly t have seethed." Oswald had hem preoccupied to coy tions and the inneraa that roared The door was open, but the screen absence. down on um from four directions. was locked. The tape recorders were The bedroom. however, was as fee. Oswald was at her dining M- baffling the windshield wipers. By on the floor, where we had left neat as if no one had ever slept or M.. bk. proceeding with her plenti- the time we got to Mrs. Owele-• them yesterday, and I could see the dressed in it, and in the ascetic, anti- ful /mach She got up and shut off the street. though, the fulminations be. din :evolving . they released • septic bathroom, braided the towels machines, and she said, "I'll start gem to peter out eisif the downpour hundred and eighty words a minute . imprinted with big, bright flowers, this over from the beginning for you. was replaced by a sniffling nastiness_ I knocked again more loudly and the only thing, f saw were a battle You see, when I pot up thin morn- Somewhere in the neighborhood, a called nut In a moment, Mrs. Os- of Mind lotion called "To a Wild ing I thought rd just put screw- voice, much implied. was Waring. wald appeared- I had interrupted Rome" and sn ornamental soap M- thing on the tape all on my own. I thought et first It w. coming her in the middle of her latch, and inimised with golden lilies. If Mr.. We can erase it if you don't like it, from the sound trunk of a political she continued to chew through her Oswald suffered born indigestion or but I really and truly think I have candidate on • mobile stump or from welcoming smile as she unlatched conjunetiVIGS, she kept the medica- some good instances here for you_ one advertising an American Legion the .erns. She wan behhadhand, ments hidden continued on peje .200

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Dayton's • ahliadelphic John Wanamideir • Pittsburgh. Colonial Art Furniture Co.; Chas. E. Beck Ca. • Portland Oregon, 1.1.1•1 & Fronles-Solern • Richman-0, collar a Rhoads • Salt Lake City, Ft. Diewoody Form Co. • Seattle, The Bon Marche - Si. Paul. Dayton'. • Washington. it C. Woodward A Lothrop-M1 Branches; Maur Masterpiece.. Int. conunued from nag. 199 children had clean clothes, so saint I've got some real dynamite, some time did I have for Entrada? I think real exclusives." that this is in my favor that I didn't I was not entirely pleased; f had run around with men and drink and brought no other tapes, and there deprive my children. No, it is true, were several questions I had wanted John Edward. I didn't have any to ask her: but I managed an accept- friends. I devoted my life to you HIGH-ABSORBENCY CA ing smile and sat down prepared to boys!" Throughout the recitative. the per- DIAPERS "Can you do more than one thing former herself at rapt. her elbows at a time?" she asked. "I mean. can among her lunch dishes. Her house you linen and read and on on and temporarily was a mess. but she was an forth all at once? I can—I can not. She was wearing a trim green took and look at television end linen suit with a smart white blouse. clean house and this and that— I had the feeling that except when busy, busy, busy. Some one of the she was in bed, ahe was olways reporters caned me 'The Unsinkable dressed ready to receive anyone who Mrs_ Oswald' Because if you can, wished to hove the scales removed When seconds count, they I want you to look at these scrap- from his eyes. books and some other things. I'll "You -blow. if you research the just go on and finish up my lunch." fife of Inns Christ,' the voice con- SAVE to point of fact, I cannot tinily tinued, "you find that you never ensign my ittentidl to two different hear anything more about the mother matter' simultaneously; but I found of Jews, Mary, after He was crud. that most of the clippings in the al- find on the Cross. And really nobody HOURS! bums were not news to me. and al. has worried about my welfare. Now, though I dutifully turned the pages when I say that I get letters, I mean and appeared to read, I wits listen- ing to her Mother's Day Epistle. IF Y01.-RE MOVING SOON. it win Tt began serenely: "Upon waking up be en esonns and busy rime for you. In I this morning and it being Moth- Ow rum pisnema sod PsrLing • • • era Day, I've decided that in defense ion r lotget llctnsi s' of myself and my son Lee Harvey Oswald I would put • little !tome- SIX WEEKS BEFORE YOU MOVE, thing on the tape. I sincerely hope send us a Mier, card or pnavollue that you will find It newsworthy and change-of-addirn form Ohre print it. Here again, I know you want just a casual interview, mad • row old addax you want to keep away from the fa recent MCCALL'S label is bent Warren Commission Report; but be- • roar new address cause it is involved in my personal • and your new Zip Code numbs, Ilfe and that of my eon, I will have to go back to it from time to time. lifeCALL'S WILL ARRIVE PROMPT- "Nave, they talked about we work- IV m help male now wewlerful i.c. Mg le an insurance lady. Here, on hone happier than eler' page 378 of the Warren Commission GOc)It LUCK FROM 'UDALL'S Report. they N.Y. 'She would some. times take Lee with her, apparently Son "A . PAYTos 0050 44444 leaving him done in the car while the transacted her business. Once she worked during the school year: they are from the publir. and they Lee had to leave an empty house in are the only things that keep me the morning and return to It for going. I'm talking about my chit. lunch end again at night His mother dren, my sister, no one, when my having trained him to do that rather sonwas murdered, no immediate than play with other children.' What member of the family, no immediate CURRY S-T-Ii-E,T.C.H an injunice to a mother! Anybody friend came to me and gave me con- who ever sold insurance, and there solation They didn't want to be FASTEN masse — expands to overlap panel provides extra layers of absorb- are many, many insurance men that Involved, you see. You say, 'Your easily. Seconds saved wilts every ent fabric where most needed. are going to read this and listen to nieces and nephews couldn't send • change add up to hours, in time. me amid know, a person like f men telegram or • note! Your own sons EASIER WASHING — open end permits selling insurance and didn't want to and their wives?' But I'm going to No BINDING — the stretch and return easier passage of cleansing soap and make • killing, we could go out in be honest with you—not a soul." weave expands with baby's tummy. water. one hour's time and collect thirty The tape ended abruptly: the rods dollars. And so I was home most of was • mechanical squawk soma FIT — adjusts smoothly to ba- CURITY the time with my bay Lee. I was "How's that?" said Mrs. Oswald. usually home with him unlen I had poised, self-congratulatory. "Oh, how bies of all sires. PREFOLDED 544-E-T-C-1.1 • definite appointment_ I always I wish there was mote time! I have LESS SULK — comfortable, streamlined nieree New — last word in time-sav- tried to make my appointments later stories and coincidences by the size, is easier to handle, too. ing and convenience. Combine all on. when both the men and the galore, and if we Mat had the time, the advantages of stretch and pre- women were at home, because I we could write them up and become CURITY PRITOILDED found in the beginning, when millionairesses." folded diapers in one! started to sell And I talked to the ehe talked, she unplugged the SAVE FOLDING TINS— folded to stay that Ae women, I was asked to come back recorders and removed the tapes: but way. Quick and convenient, they're STARCH • SHAPE AFTER WASHING —Self- adfustmg, smoother fitting, easier pin- to discuss it with the husband. Well, replacing the coven flummoxed bee. always ready-to-use. then t would be immediately rejected and she giggled joyfully. "Let's get ning, no folding needed. at the door, and the simple reason our mechanical geniius to work," she *ONE ASSORISENT — woven-in center more MAMAS are easy to find. No In- for that was that the wife had dis- said, and flung up her hands in cussed what I said with the husband, fant's department or store worthy of coquettith dismay. "Hurry on, now; and of course she didn't know ea I want you to see the grove by day- the name would be without them. much about it as I did and she didn't light" preeent a good ease. So I would have I restored the covers and put the definite appointments instead and canvas overcoats on the machines usually, nut of the four or five calls, while Mn. Oswald went to get my —1 I would arll something." umbrella and her purse. PIvala sand ma- My mind wandered drowsily: the She Socked the bedroom door after 0 A Caron Bowen Weays Meow lw See onclowd "exclusives- hinted at were never her, and title double-locked the outer C A two, PAErOLOED Maps. for De ancloavi disclosed; the dynamite did not go door. "Of course, I don't keep the CA Curdy PREFOLDED Snatch 01.9., oar Da off. really valuable things in the house. eloaad. "I didn't date," I heard her say. I keep them stored, Mewed, but All inn. for it CO onclearal. "My son John said before the there's plenty that interested parties Commission. 'She didn't have any could steal, and I can't sus the risk." Nam* friends,' Of coupe I didn't have any Her Buick Skylark was blue and Addrawa friends. because I was a mother, a new, and she drove it expertly, with WEE ALL BJ12. a diaper must working mother. When 1 came home, enjoyment My driver's black limou- be highly absorbent. That's stn Slue I had to take care of the house and sine was lubberly behind us. The where Curiry diapers show their P.O. 11221— Deal. 0l103 06666.- the groceries and make sure that my oorninued on page 202 quality They are always full Chariot.. hp. Carolina case weight and fully effective. 0000 ONLY IN TN! UNITED STATES 200 McColl's, October 1965 When you freeze continued from page 200 and his death. Surrounding it today ram had altogether stopped, and the were holf-drowned yellow pansies. flat fickle nearned on either side Beside it. resting against • wire of us bracket. wag a pale-green cross mode food, don't chance- "I have enough material for at of styroiciam, the arms of which /east five books," acid Mrs Oswald. were wreathed with artificial freesias. "We could run it for two or three A young weeping-will., tree grew at years, every month, as a serial in a the head of the grave, its vulnerable national magarine, and then as a leaves touched quietly by the light, wrap it... sort of a soap opera on radio or damp breeze, Plastic philodendron, even on TV. Couldn't you take the as glossy as a grass snake. wound summer Off and come down end rent up its trunk. the other part of the house, so we Mrs. Oswald plucked a weed from could write it all up? I mean, among the pansies, bent the pliable would give of my time and my voice, freesias into a more becoming em- and we could split the proceeds." brace around the cross, brushed off her hand, and gave me one of them some tirime I had been aware to shake. Pehe t e cat was lurking near me, "It turned out to be a right nice waiting to get my tongue. He had it Mother's Day, after all." she said. now, and all I could do was stammer "But on some Mother's Day. I think like I schoolchild, "I don't know." it would be wonderful for the United "I know p discount house whore States to come out and gay my son you could get a hot plate cheap. and as an agent- It would be wonderful you could use my icebox." The if they would come out in behalf practical planner was working hand of his tamily and his mother and in glove with the dreamer. "There's say he died in the service of his that back porch, err we could wander back and forth, very informal and "Is that what you meant in your relaxed, and we could set up all statement on the little scroll?" I my uhibits on what-you-cell-'ems- asked. sawhorses is what I mean. And buy "No comment," said Mrs. Oswald. a couple of tape recorders. I think "I do not comment on my state- Sure-wrap it! we'd work out flue as a team." ment." She was curtly Official, but "Yes` I said. immediately she was again cordial, But now we had reached the gates perhaps thinking of me as her future of the cemetery, and she changed collaborator. "Now, you think about her tack. In the voice of a touriat corning down here for the summer. guide. she said, "Like everything ill be glad to cooperate with you. eIse in life, this la divided up into It would be a big, big deal." dames. There is the section for the rich people, and some very fine As soon as she drove off, the five people are buried there. and there sightseers converged upon the is the one for the poor people, and grave, and my driver, es he opened dam there is the one for the middle the door for me. said, "I don't like clue. Lee Harvey Is buried In the the looks them. They had a guard When you spend carefully budg- middle-class section, as it should on the grave up until a white bark. I eted dollars on meat, poultry or be according to his station in life." guess they figure nobody cares about The graveyard wan deserted; we fish to freeze, protect your it no more. I reckon it moat be kinds met no other car and BOW no mourn- hard for his to come out here and investment. Don't take n chance an we spiraled up between granite ell." an just any kind of wrap. Be sure. shafts and marble angels, and Mrs. I assured him that I thought. under Use KVP Freezer Wrap, Oswald plaintively remarked on this the circumstances, alp was bearing "If it had been This heavyweight wrap locks a sunny day, you'd up quite well have seen the can lined up clear to We were silent for several In for keeps all the wonderful the gate. people coming to see where and then he said. "The day it hap- flavor of tender, juicy meats. It my son in buried." Thai, in • pened. I was haulin' some folks from actually pays for itself by elimi- moment, round a bend, we did are Love Airport. Prettiest day you nating damaging freezer burn. a car ahead of ua at the top of a ever did see. and all of a sudden we slight rise. "Now there!" she said. KVP Freezer Wrap is tough, heard it on the radio that the Presi- "There's somebody. after all, even dent was dead. I took this party to strong, yet pliable. It's easy to though it isn't such a nice day, and their hotel, and then I went out in told and tape, Easy to write on. they're coming to see Lee." the country and net by myself. I too. Once sealed and stored In We came to a atop directly behind never reported back to work till next the car, which, azure where it was your food freezer or refrigerator morning." not besmirched by mud or tubbed That day, as I entered Dallas freezer compartment, your with rust, could not have been less along the same road where the Presi- freezer burn worries are over. than twenty years old: it was long dent's motorcade bad been hideously No wonder KVP is the brand and broad and tall, and its rear halted and at I passed by the Book professionals use. When you window was • high, narrow oval; Depository whence the bullets had it looked as if when it had been new been fired. I observed freeze meat—or any food, don't a peculiar and probably black, it had been used condition of mind that f had recog- chance-wrap It. Sure wrap it with as a getaway car, Its oemmants were nized each time I had made the trip KVP Freezer Wrap. slogging through the mud across the to and from Fort Worth: that is, road as we opened our doors. They that the physical site did not ac- were five boys in their late teen., centuate my recollected woe: indeed, all rangy and long-armed and all I was instead returned to my own wearing dirty dungarees. dirty T. apartment in New York, where, milieu. dirty sneakers and dirty, un- quite by accident, I had turned on combed hair. the radio and had heard the first "They're heading straight for Lee," inconclusive bulletin. At other time whispered Mrs. Oswald. "Now, it's in my life, I have stood on memo- that age I want to reach with my rable ground and have apprehended s2 Value IMPERIAL books. The young people. I want directly experience that heretofore to write it all in a way they will un- had been once removed because I derstand and know the truth of his- had only rend about it: Once when KITCHENETTE SET I drove mimed from the Normandy She moved purposefully forward, beaches. I knew for the first time bowing to either aide, and halted at Rabb apse oat's !IRWIN RaNwuru 50 with immediacy what the invasion balerbb pow, Mu. bud bob. burr. ,II a grave at the edge of the road. The had been, and the deaths, along those and worralm OR.. orb -1U1s.brb b.- •Reer boys stepped back, and she beamed pretty Maria of Rem 51...1•14 ERN $1.110 ...a I. end lab. my friends and kins- lbw a RV0 brbto Woo lbw.. nun narr• on n on them beneficently. They quickly men became more than abstrac- *Ow. la eve Rob.. Weberwrb S. P.O fanned out among other graves tions. 11. MO. Vurnbarr. LI- raw ten 11541 Allow ■ bur *lb be rbburr. Ohre etrum• bu. N. higher up the Elope, but f was con- But Kennedy died everywhere 151115. Rus abb. on r.VP rum.. Abe ber. scious of then eyes on us. throughout the world, nor more In The small RODDe that marks Lee Dallas than in Paris or in Calcutta Harvey Oswald's grave bears only or i nmy apartment in New York KVP FREEZER WRAP his name and the dates of his birth City. TH11 IND 202 McCall'.. Ch,bar nut A product of Th• Pepin People 13 KVP SUTHERLAND PAPER CO.