TESTIMONY OF MARINA OSWALD PORTER
Mr. McDONALD. Directing your attention to that day, April 10, 1963, would you tell us what happened?
Mrs. PORTER. Well, I cannot remember the timing all the very vivid details of day. I just can state it that that particular night he did not come home until very late, and when he did not come home at regular time, I was worried about him. So I found a note addressed to me what to do in case if he did not come home. Of course I was petrified. Nobody I can turn to. But then later that night when he came home, I asked him to explain. He was out of breath and he was pale, and asked him to explain this note, and he said that "I just shot General Walker." So I was very upset and enraged about that, and we had an argument over it.
Mr. McDONALD. Just a second, Mrs. Porter. Let's wait. [Air raid siren.]
Chairman STOKES. This reminds us of the customary test every Wednesday at 11 o'clock.
Mr. McDONALD. Just one minute.
Mrs. Porter, if you could speak up as best you can--
Mrs. PORTER. OK.
Mr. McDONALD [continuing]. So we can hear you. Before the siren, you were saying.---- Let me ask you the question so you can repeat the answer. What happened when Lee came home on the night of April 10, 1963?
Mrs. PORTER. He was very pale, as I said, and he was out of breath, and I was asking, I mean asked him to explain about the note that he left for me, and asked him what happened, and he said that he just tried to shoot General Walker. I asked him who General Walker was. I mean how dare you to go and claim somebody's life, and he said "Well, what would you say if somebody got rid of Hitler at the right time? So if you don't know about General Walker, how can you speak up on his behalf?." Because he told me that he wasn't--just a minute. He said he was something equal to what he called him a fascist. That was his description.
Mr. McDONALD. Did he turn on the television? Did he try to listen?
Mrs. PORTER. We did not have television. He turned the radio on later on, listened for the news, and it wasn't, nothing on.
Mr. McDONALD. You say he was pale?
Mrs. PORTER. Yes.
Mr. McDONALD. Did he appear nervous or distraught?
Mrs. PORTER. I don't know what "distraught" mean?
Mr. McDONALD. Well, other than being pale in color, did he give, did he have any other characteristics, physical characteristics? Did he seem to be shaking or extremely nervous?
Mrs. PORTER. Yes, he was extremely nervous; yes. Then when he heard the news that General Walker wasn't killed, you know, he was kind of angry that he missed it.
End of testimony excerp.
Was Marina Oswald in on the conspiracy? Yes or no.