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
Although prior to November 22, Mrs. Paine had information relating
to Oswald’s use of an alias in Dallas, his telephone number, and
his correspondence with the Soviet Embassy, which she did not pass
on to the FBI,[C6-395] her failure to have come forward with this
information must be viewed within the context of the information
available to her at that time. There is no evidence to contradict her
testimony that she did not then know about Oswald’s attack on General
Walker, the presence of the rifle on the floor of her garage, Oswald’s
ownership of a pistol, or the photographs of Oswald displaying the
firearms.[C6-396] She thus assumed that Oswald, though a difficult and
disturbing personality, was not potentially violent, and that the FBI
was cognizant of his past history and current activities.[C6-397]
Moreover, it is from Mrs. Paine herself that the Commission has
learned that she possessed the information which she did have. Mrs.
Paine was forthright with the agent of the FBI with whom she spoke
in early November 1963, providing him with sufficient information to
have located Oswald at his job if he had deemed it necessary to do
so,[C6-398] and her failure to have taken immediate steps to notify the
Bureau of the additional information does not under the circumstances
appear unusual. Throughout the Commission’s investigation, Ruth
Paine has been completely cooperative, voluntarily producing all
correspondence, memoranda, and other written communications in her
possession that had passed between her and Marina Oswald both before
and after November 22, 1963.[C6-399] The Commission has had the benefit
of Mrs. Paine’s 1963 date book and calendar and her address book and
telephone notation book, in both of which appear many entries relating
to her activities with the Oswalds.[C6-400] Other material of a purely
personal nature was also voluntarily made available.[C6-401] The
Commission has found nothing in the Paines’ background, activities, or
finances which suggests disloyalty to the United States,[C6-402] and it
has concluded that Ruth and Michael Paine were not involved in any way
with the assassination of President Kennedy.
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