P.O. Boxes
P. O. Boxes Oswald was questioned about three rented post office boxes. Box 2915 at the Main Post Office was rented in his own name prior to his move to New Orleans, with two keys, and used solely by him. He denied ever ordering a rifle or money order through it and claimed he owned no rifle other than possibly a small-bore .22 since his Marine Corps days. A New Orleans box (30061) was used for subscriptions, including Russian publications, and the application listed Marina Oswald and A. J. Hidell as persons entitled to receive mail—Oswald explained his wife’s inclusion but merely shrugged at Hidell’s. Box 6225 at the Terminal Annex postal station, rented after his return to Dallas, listed “Fair Play For Cuba Committee” and “American Civil Liberties Union” as the corporation, details Oswald professed not to recall, though he admitted paying the rental himself.
Organizations - Membership In
Organizations - Membership In Oswald was evasive about ACLU membership. He described the Fair Play for Cuba Committee as a loosely organized group in New Orleans that he essentially served as secretary, writing letters and attempting to collect monthly dues of $1.00, while denying he was sent to Dallas to organize a local cell. He emphatically denied being a communist, insisting he was a pure Marxist and distinguishing communism as Lenin-Marxism. He stated Karl Marx was his religion, dismissed the Bible as uninteresting and philosophically weak, and claimed to have read nearly everything written by or about Marx.
Marine Corp Service
Marine Corp Service Oswald bristled when Captain Fritz mentioned a dishonorable discharge, insisting his discharge had originally been honorable and was changed only because he had attempted to renounce his American citizenship while in Russia. When that renunciation did not materialize, he wrote to Secretary of the Navy Connally, who replied respectfully but indicated the matter would be referred to his successor (named by Oswald as Cork, Kurth, or something similar) since Connally was resigning to run for Governor of Texas. Oswald showed no particular animosity toward Connally during this discussion.
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