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 are holding up exhibit number?
Mrs. PAINE. 430.
Mr. JENNER. And you are pointing to what on that exhibit?
Mrs. PAINE. The window of the bedroom which she occupied, which is the
southeast bedroom of my house, looks directly out to where I thought
the car was parked. From that position, if I am correct about where the
car was parked, she couldn't have seen the license plate, but she could
have seen it if as Agent Hosty described to me later she saw it while
the car was moving along the street.
Mr. JENNER. When he pulled away?
Mrs. PAINE. When he pulled away and then he came back and went the
other way.
Mr. JENNER. So it is possible that she may have seen the license?
Mrs. PAINE. It is possible.
Mr. JENNER. This date that you are now talking about when he parked the
car in front of your house, that was November 5?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes, it was.
Mr. JENNER. Whereas on November 1, he parked the car down the street.
Mrs. PAINE. That is right. I might add a little more detail here if you
want it. Marina and I talked about whether to tell Lee that the FBI
had been out a second time, and the 5th was a Tuesday. We didn't see
Lee until the 8th. She said to me that he had been upset by the FBI's
coming out and inquiring about him, and he felt it was interference
with his family. And I said there is no reason for him to be upset, or
I think conveyed that idea. But the question of whether to tell him was
settled by Marina who told him on Friday evening, the 8th, and then
Lee inquired of me about that meeting, and he said--I don't think I
have yet said for the record--he said to me then he felt the FBI was
inhibiting his activities. This is what he said. Has this been said?
Mr. JENNER. Not yet.
Mrs. PAINE. All right, I have said it. I said to him "Don't be worried
about it. You have your rights to your views, whether they are popular
or not." But I could see that he didn't take that view but rather was
seriously bothered by their having come out and inquired about him. At
this time or another, I don't recall certainly, I asked whether he was
worried about losing his job, and he was.
Mr. JENNER. Did he say so, Mrs. Paine?
Mrs. PAINE. I recall particularly a telephone conversation with him.
On one of those in which he called out to talk to Marina, I judge,
and perhaps she was busy still changing a baby and I talked. I don't
recall the exact circumstances but I do recall it, and I said to him
if his views, not any references now to the FBI or their interest in
him, but if his political views were interfering with his ability to
hold a job, that this might be a matter of interest to the American
Civil Liberties Union, that he should in our country have a right to
unpopular views or any other kind.
This I believe was after he had been to an American Civil Liberties
Union meeting with my husband, that meeting having been October 25.
Mr. JENNER. What was his response?
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