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
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. But you anticipated?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. Now, the morning of the 11th of November I was not
home from something before 9 o'clock until about 2 that afternoon. I
don't know what transpired during that time.
Mr. JENNER. Were there other occasions when you were off ministering to
your children, that is taking them to the dentist or something of that
nature, on a Saturday or to church on Sunday or to the local park on
Sunday, that Lee Oswald may have been, that is periods of time when you
would not have known whether he was on or off your premises?
Mrs. PAINE. I can think only of grocery shopping which would have been
an hour to an hour and a half period, and the two times that I can
recall in the Saturday afternoon, on a Saturday afternoon that I went
to Dallas to teach one Russian student a lesson. I can't think of any
other spaces of time, hours that I was away.
Mr. JENNER. Now, this gentleman also says----
Mrs. PAINE. Except the one I have just mentioned, of course, the one of
November 11.
Mr. JENNER. He also says that the man he thinks was Lee Harvey Oswald
not only regularly came to his shop on Friday evenings or Saturday
mornings for a haircut, but that he occasionally drove a station wagon.
Do you know of any occasion to your certain knowledge that Lee drove
your station wagon other than the one occasion you have already related?
Mrs. PAINE. Absolutely none.
Mr. JENNER. Do you know whether Lee Oswald subscribed to any newspapers?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; I do.
Mr. JENNER. What newspapers, excuse me, did he or did he not subscribe?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. They came to my door. They sat around the house until
the weekend when he arrived.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us what newspapers those were?
Mrs. PAINE. I noticed a paper which I was told was from Minsk.
Mr. JENNER. Was it in Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. In Russian.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever see it in the sense of glancing at it out of
idle curiosity if nothing else?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And it was in Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Was there something about it that indicated to you that it
came from Minsk?
Mrs. PAINE. Marina told me.
Mr. JENNER. She told you. Was it a political tract or was it a
newspaper as we understand newspapers?
Mrs. PAINE. It was a newspaper as Russians understand newspapers which
makes it a borderline political tract.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
In addition to that Russian newspaper from Minsk was there anything----
Mrs. PAINE. There was a Russian magazine, small, Reader's Digest size.
Mr. JENNER. The witness is indicating in her hands about a page size of
about nine by----
Mrs. PAINE. Six.
Mr. JENNER. Nine by six.
Is that about the size?
Mrs. PAINE. Something like that, called the Agitator, the name written
in Russian.
Mr. JENNER. The word "Agitator" was written in Russian, printed in
Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. On the face or cover page of this document, is that true?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
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