I'm John Batchler. Paul Gregory is the author of the new book, The Oswald's, an untold account of

Marina and Lee Oswald. It is the summer of 1962. Paul's at home with his family and taking

Russian conversation lessons from Marina Oswald, intending to pay Marina for her labor.

They quickly establish a routine where Paul goes over perhaps twice a week, about 630 in the afternoon, after Lee Harvey Oswald has come home from his day labor.

And then they sit and converse. One of the most vivid parts of the book to me, having read it in manuscript before, is when Paul comes into their modest room, there are very few conveniences.

There's no fan. There's no air conditioning. This is a summer

in Dallas, Fort Worth. And you see a Time magazine. Who's on the cover, Paul, and where did it come

from? That's something of a mystery on the cover was none other than President Kennedy.

I think I've solved the mystery, and the solution was that Lee had asked his brother to send him Time Magazine when he was in Minsk.

So that addition of Time Magazine would have arrived when Lee was in Minsk, which means

that he would have had to include that magazine in his possessions that were being sent to the

United States. So for some reason, he wanted that, or they wanted that addition of time on their

coffee table.

It was the only book on their coffee table, and it never changed its position in the

whole time I was with them.

It did give us, give me occasion to sound out Marina about Kennedy, whether she knew who

the president was, et cetera, et cetera.

And her response was, he's very handsome, seems like a very good father.

And Lee was listening as we were discussing this and was shaking his head in agreement.

So there was never any time when either Lee or Marina expressed any negative feelings towards

Kennedy.

All right.

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