JFK Assassination Hearings - Marina Porter/Oswald
JFK Assassination Hearings - Marina Porter/Oswald
(03:13:56) Shot opens to close up of MARINA PORTER testifying before the House Committee on Assassinations, she is asked by an unidentified committee member what were the circumstances of Porter's first meeting with GEORGE DEMORANSHEILD (?), Porter says she believes she met George at a Russian friend's house party - Porter is not sure if she met him with LEE HARVEY OSWALD, her former husband, and other details about their acquaintence but she does know that both Oswald and Porter liked George very much (03:16:03) Porter is asked why Oswald liked George - Porter describe George as a likeable, cheery fellow, she adds that she assumed George liked Oswald (03:16:37) Porter is asked if George and Oswald ever talked politics - Porter resonds yes and that they also talked about JFK but she cannot remember the details however (03:17:21) Porter says she believes the men spoke favorably of JFK and that George had known JACKIE KENNEDY before she married JFK and that he said she was a nice girl (03:17:48) Porter says she does not recall ever hearing Oswald speak badly about JFK or the KENNEDY family (03:18:09) Porter is asked about George's opinon of the Soviet Union - Porter responds that he was curious about life there and that George had lived there, maybe even was born there (03:18:40) Porter is asked about Oswald's return to the U.S. from the Soviet Union - Porter says he was happy to be back, Porter than explains that upon returning to the U.S. they stayed with Oswald's brother ROBERT OSWALD in Fort Worth Texas and that soon after Lee Oswald got a job, they moved out (03:19:21) Porter explains how Oswald was contacted by FBI shortly after returning to the U.S. and that he was angered by this contact - Porter is further questioned about this encounter and she gives what details of it she can remember, she at the time was in the kitchen in the house and the meeting took place outside, also at that time Porter did not speak much English (03:21:33) Porter is asked about the apartment that they moved to and lived in, did they live at this time with Oswald's mother - Porter answers yes, they lived with Oswald's mother (03:22:05) Shot switches suddenly to the back of the hearing room, people begin filing in a grand entrance and soon Marina Porter walks by, at this point the camera follows her to the front where it holds a distant view of the front of the hearings room (03:22:53) Shot suddenly switches to the committee and crowd from the back of the gallery, the hearings are already in progress and Porter is questioned by an unidentified committee member, the sound is pretty faint at this point, Porter's words are hard to make out - Porter is being asked if she ever met of any of Oswald's friends upon coming from the Soviet Union to Texas, if Oswald read Russian books in the Soviet Union, if Oswald ever discussed politics - the shot is not very steady, the camera person after a while decides to move up to the front of the gallery (03:25:00) Porter is asked if she ever heard Oswald speak with anyone about assassination - Porter answers no - Porter is then asked about Oswald's relationship to Russians around Fort Worth, Texas (03:25:46) Sudden shot change and skip in footage - the shot now is from a back corner of the gallery, the sound is still very faint (03:26:07) Again sudden shot change, now the shot is in front of Porter, she is sitting at the witness table with her translator, behind her at a table and behind her in the gallery are the press and other people - the sound if fuzzy - the camera cannot settle on a shot and meanwhile Porter is asked when she first saw Oswald's rifle if it had a scope on it - Porter answers she cannot recall, she is then asked several other questions about the scope and Oswald's ammunition, some of the answers to which are hard to make out because of the bad sound (03:28:10) Porter is asked about Oswald's handling of the rifle in the New Orleans apartment - Porter tells the committee Oswald would sit out on the porch with the rifle, she can give no other details as she did not stay out there with him and was told by him "to leave him alone" during these times - Porter is asked other questions about Oswald and the rifle all of which she answers that she can't recall - Meanwhile the sound has greatly improved and the shot has settled on a good close up of Porter (03:30:33) Porter is asked if Oswald ever went out with the rifle - Porter says that several times he would go out with the rifle under a long rain coat and tell her that he was going out target shooting, she tells the committee he would be gone for a few hours and that he would tell her that he was taking the bus to a shooting range (03:33:35) Porter is asked how Oswald was behaving the week before April 10, 1963 when Oswald was alleged to have shot at General EDMUND WALKER in Dallas - Porter says that she cannot remember exactly, it being so long ago, but that Oswald's personality was constantly chainging, sometimes he was reclusive, other times would be hostile towards her - further questioning is cut off as the tape flies into hyper-speed