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. You did not take the number down and place it on that piece
of paper?
Mrs. PAINE. I did not.
Mr. JENNER. Or give it to Lee Harvey Oswald or to Marina?
Mrs. PAINE. I did not. I was never at any time interested in the
license plate number. I wondered why anyone else would have been.
Mr. JENNER. In any event, the first you heard of the license number was
after the assassination?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Under the circumstances you have now related?
Mrs. PAINE. I might describe the second meeting with Mr. Hosty a little
more in detail.
Mr. JENNER. That is November 1?
Mrs. PAINE. That is the only way I can guess as to how this license
plate number was in Oswald's room.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mrs. PAINE. Hosty and I, and a second agent was with him, I don't know
the name, stood at the door of my home and talked briefly, as I have
already described, about the address of Oswald in Dallas. Marina was
in her room feeding the baby, or busy some way. She came in just as
Hosty and I were closing the conversation, and I must say we were both
surprised at her entering. He then took his leave immediately, and as
he has told me later, drove to the end of my street which curves and
then drove back down Fifth Street.
Mr. JENNER. Now you are reporting something agent Hosty has told you?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Were you aware of the fact that he drove to the end of the
street?
Mrs. PAINE. Not at that time, no. I was aware that he had parked his
car out in front of my house. My best judgment is that the license
plate was not visible, however, while it was parked; not visible from
my house.
Mr. JENNER. Did you see the car?
Mrs. PAINE. I saw the car.
Mr. JENNER. Parked?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. I noticed it particularly. Because the first time he
had come on the 1st of November, he had parked down the street, and
he made reference to the fact that they don't like to draw attention
for the neighborhood to any interviews that they make, and in fact
my neighbor also commented when she had talked with him a few days
previously that his car was parked down the street and wasn't in front
of my house. So I noticed the change that he had parked directly in
front. But to the best of my recollection, in back of the Oldsmobile of
my husband's.
Mr. JENNER. Did you attempt to look to see what his license number was?
Mrs. PAINE. What?
Mr. JENNER. Did you attempt to look at his automobile to see what the
license number was?
Mrs. PAINE. No; nor could I have seen it from my house without my
glasses on. I am nearsighted, and I was not wearing them.
Mr. JENNER. But the license plate would have been visible to anybody
walking down the street or who desired?
Mrs. PAINE. Walking down the street, yes.
Mr. JENNER. Or looking out your garage.
Mrs. PAINE. I don't think so, because to the best of my recollection,
an Oldsmobile that my husband bought was also in front of the house, so
that the cars would have been close at the bumpers.
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