History Will Prove Us Right by Howard P. Willens

Author:Howard P. Willens [WILLENS, HOWARD P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS000000; HIS036000; HIS036060; TRU000000; TRU002000
ISBN: 9781468309171
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2013-10-15T05:00:00+00:00

Marina Oswald Testifies Again

After hearing from these State Department officials, the commission on June 11 had a second opportunity to question Marina Oswald. The principal reason for calling her back was to explore her recollection that her husband had threatened to kill former vice president Richard Nixon, a fact not mentioned in her earlier testimony. She apologized for this omission and told the commission she had not intended “to deceive you the first time.”54

She testified that Oswald’s remark about Nixon came after his General Walker attempt on April 10, but before he left for New Orleans on April 24. After Oswald returned from getting the morning newspaper, she said, he put a suit on and took his pistol. When she asked where he was going, he answered: “Nixon is coming. I want to go and have a look.” She expressed concern about the “look” he was intending to have with his pistol, went into the bathroom in tears, and reminded him of his promise after the Walker incident never to do anything like that again. When he came into the bathroom, she tried to keep him from leaving. She had not seen or heard anything about Nixon coming to Dallas.55

When pressed, she became uncertain where they lived at the time and whether she did struggle to keep him in the bathroom, but “there is no doubt he got dressed and had a gun.” She did not remember her husband previously expressing any hostility toward Nixon, but said he told her the next day that Nixon had not come to Dallas after all.56

Mrs. Oswald testified she and her husband argued about this incident and that he became angry at her. She told him that she was pregnant and reminded him repeatedly of his previous promise not to repeat the Walker attack. He took the pistol out of his belt and put it back in his room. When asked how he reacted to her interfering with him, she said:

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