Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Marina Oswald lived with Ruth Paine through the birth of her second
daughter on October 20, 1963, and until the assassination of President
Kennedy.[C6-365] During this period, Oswald obtained a room in Dallas
and found employment in Dallas, but spent weekends with his family at
the Paine home.[C6-366] On November 1 and 5, Ruth Paine was interviewed
by agents of the FBI who were investigating Oswald’s activities since
his return from the Soviet Union, as set forth in greater detail in
chapter VIII. She did not then know Oswald’s address in Dallas.[C6-367]
She was not asked for, nor did she volunteer, Oswald’s telephone number
in Dallas, which she did know.[C6-368] She advised the Bureau agent to
whom she spoke of Oswald’s periodic weekend visits, and she informed
him that Oswald was employed at the Texas School Book Depository
Building.[C6-369]
On November 10, Ruth Paine discovered a draft of Oswald’s letter
written the day before to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, in which
he indicated that he had journeyed to Mexico City and conferred with
a “comrade Kostine in the Embassy of the Soviet Union, Mexico City,
Mexico.”[C6-370] (This letter is discussed later in this chapter.)
Mr. and Mrs. Paine testified that although they initially assumed the
letter was a figment of Oswald’s imagination, the letter gave Mrs.
Paine considerable misgivings.[C6-371] She determined that if the FBI
agents returned she would deliver to them the copy of a draft of the
letter which, unknown to Oswald, she had made.[C6-372] However, the
agents did not return before the assassination.[C6-373] On November 19,
Mrs. Paine learned that Oswald was living in his Dallas rooming-house
under an assumed name.[C6-374] She did not report this to the FBI
because, as she testified, she “had no occasion to see them, and * * *
did not think it important enough to call them after that until the 23d
of November.”[C6-375]
The Commission has thoroughly investigated the background of both
Paines. Mrs. Paine was born Ruth Hyde in New York City on September 3,
1932. Her parents moved to Columbus, Ohio, in the late 1930’s.[C6-376]
They were divorced in 1961.[C6-377] Ruth Paine graduated from Antioch
College in 1955.[C6-378] While in high school she first became
interested in Quaker activities; she and her brother became Quakers
in 1951.[C6-379] In 1952, following completion of her sophomore year
at Antioch College, she was a delegate to two Friends conferences in
England.[C6-380]
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