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. That you said so.
Mrs. PAINE. For whom?
Mr. JENNER. For the Russian government.
Mrs. PAINE. Oh. I have certainly never said anything of the sort.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever say to anybody including Mrs. Gravitis that
you thought Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, it is possible I said that. I thought he considered
himself a Communist by ideology, certainly a Marxist. He himself always
corrected anyone who called him a Communist and said he was a Marxist.
Mr. JENNER. When you use the term communist do you think of a person as
a member of the Communist Party or a native of Russia?
Mrs. PAINE. I seldom use the term at all, but I would confine it
to people who were members or considered themselves in support of
Communist ideology.
Mr. JENNER. A person in your mind may be a Communist, and yet not a
member of the Communist Party, even in Russia?
Mrs. PAINE. I might use the word in that loose way.
Mr. JENNER. The last of these interviews was on, may I suggest, and if
not would you correct me, January 27, 1964, by Agent Wiehl, and Agent
Hosty. It appears, and would you please correct me if I am wrong, to
have been an interview in your home at the very tail end of January
1964?
Mrs. PAINE. I have no specific recollection.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall an interview in which you reported to the
FBI, these two agents, that agent Hosty--no, that you gave Lee Harvey
Oswald the name of agent James P. Hosty together with the Dallas FBI
telephone number which you had obtained on November 1, 1963, that you
did not give him the license number of the automobile driven by agent
Hosty, however, and that, as I have asked you before, the license
number could have been observed by Marina Oswald on November 1?
Mrs. PAINE. That is my recollection of the occurrence.
Mr. JENNER. And it could have been observed on November 5th?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Senator COOPER. Did you yourself see the license plate?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Senator COOPER. You don't know the numbers or letters that were on the
license plate?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Paine, you testified yesterday and you testified again
today, this morning, that you had no recollection of Lee Oswald having
gone into the garage of your home on Thursday, November 21. Do you
recall that testimony?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, that I did not see him there or see him go through
the door to the garage. I was clear in my own mind that it was he who
had left the light on, and I tried to describe that.
Mr. JENNER. It may have been a possibility and you were inferring from
that that he was in the garage.
Mrs. PAINE. I definitely infer that.
Mr. JENNER. Were you interviewed by the FBI agents Hosty and Abernathy
on the 23d of November 1963?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
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