Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. JENNER. Did you have the feeling, if I may use some vernacular,
that she was "under wraps" or rather she was bereft and just seeking to
do----
Mrs. PAINE. I had no feeling she was restraining herself from saying
any particular things.
Mr. JENNER. Was under restraint?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. From some outside source?
Mrs. PAINE. I had no such feeling.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mrs. PAINE. I then, well, I should say there were one or two officers
from the Irving Police Department there who were waiting to take the
things that she directed----
Mr. JENNER. The police officers had already arrived at your home?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; I guess I remembered it as virtually simultaneous.
I might fill in, whether it is important to your inquiry or not,
the moment the television announced that Lee Oswald had been shot,
an Irving Police patrol car that had been going by my house and had
hesitated in front, stopped and the officer got out carrying a rifle
and came into my house, closed the curtains and said he was here to
protect me. I later learned that he thought Mrs. Oswald, Marina Oswald,
was in the house, and he had been directed by his car radio to come in,
and he then closed all the blinds and peered out. And it was in the
midst of this time that Marina called, so you see the officers were
there already on other business.
Mr. JENNER. The officer was in your home when you talked with Marina?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; when Marina made the call.
Mr. JENNER. Did you say anything to the officers that Marina had called
when you finished that conversation?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You told them?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you tell them anything of the substance of the call?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; that I was to get some things and I think they had
the same information separately a different way from a car radio or
something at the same time, which was to put some things together to
take to her. I did then pack one or two, or even three of the suit
cases we talked about yesterday with baby things.
Mr. JENNER. Excuse me, Mrs. Paine. You keep referring to one or two or
three. Were there as many as three?
Mrs. PAINE. I think there were as many as three, including a very
small, you might say, cosmetic case, only more, not as fancy as that.
This was in her room, and I recall looking in it and seeing a family
album of photographs and thinking this had better be in her hands, and
included that along with clothes. I sent a childs toy, some things that
I thought might be helpful to her in keeping her children happy as well
as the individual items she had asked for specifically.
Mr. McCLOY. Did you sense any note of estrangement at all between you
and Marina when she telephoned you?
Mrs. PAINE. No; the situation was strained.
Mr. McCLOY. Strained because she hadn't reappeared, you mean?
Mrs. PAINE. No; because her husband had been shot.
Mr. McCLOY. No; I meant in your conversation with her was there any
indication of any coolness between you?
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