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    "ocrText": "AFFIDAVIT OF HENRY J. ROUSSEL, JR.\nThe following affidavit was executed by Henry J. Roussel, Jr., on May 25, 1964.\nPRESIDENTS COMMISSION\nON THE ASSASSINATION OF\nAFFIDAVIT\nPRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY\nSTATE OF LOUISIANA,\nPürish of Baton Rouge, 88:\nI, Henry J. Roussel, Jr., 2172 Elissalde Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, being\nfirst duly sworn, depose and say\nThat while in the United States Marine Corps I served for approximately\nthree or four months with Lee Harvey Oswald in MACS-9 in Santa Ana,\nCalifornia.\nOn one oceasion I arranged a date for Oswald with my aunt, Rosaleen Quinn,\nan airline stewardess who, because she was interested in working for the Ameri-\ncan Embassy in Russia, had taken a leave from her job in order to study Russian.\nI arranged the date because I knew of Oswald's study of the Russian language.\nI also arranged a date for my aunt with Lieutenant John E. Donovan. I am\nunder the impression that prior to studying Russian, Oswald had studied\nGerman.\nI recall no serious nolitical remarks on the part of Oswald. On oceasion, how-\never. Oswald. when addressing other Marines, would refer to them.as\nseemed to as far as know to fellow Marines Ostald\nused this term in fun At times some of us responded by calling him \"Comrade.\"\nOswald also enjoyed listening to recordings of Russian songs.\nMy recollection of Oswald is to the effect that he was personally quite neat,\nand that he stayed to himself. Oswald complained about orders that he was\ngiven, but no more than did the average Marine. I regarded Oswald as quite\nintelligent, in view of the fact that he had taught himself two foreign languages.\nI do not recall Oswald's having any dates other than the one which I arranged\nfor him with my aunt.\nI do not remember Oswald's getting into any fights. I have no recollection\nconcerning Oswald's reading habits, religious beliefs, or trips off the post. I do\nnot remember his reading a Russian newspaper, and do not recall his having any\nnicknames. (I was nicknamed \"Beezer.\") I do not remember Oswald's having\nhis name written in Russian on his jacket, and have no recollection of any visi-\ntors received by Oswald.\nSigned this 23th day of May, 1964, at Baton Rouge, La.\n(S) Henry J. Roussel, Jr.,\nHENRY J. ROUSSEL, Jr."
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