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 read it?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Why didn't you?
Mrs. PAINE. I wasn't interested.
Mr. JENNER. Because of the nature of the document?
Mrs. PAINE. If I had had time to do much reading, I might have taken
an interest but I had no time, insufficient time to do the reading I
really wanted to do. He also subscribed to the Worker.
Mr. JENNER. Is that the publication of the Communist Party USA?
Mrs. PAINE. I have been told so.
Mr. JENNER. Did you read that?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you observe--have you now concluded the list of
newspapers, periodicals or magazines to which he was a subscriber?
Mrs. PAINE. I believe so. I might say that my awareness of his
subscribing to these last two, the Militant and the Worker, came after
the assassination. There was mail awaiting for him for that weekend
which he did not pick up on the 21st, and after the assassination,
indeed, after Saturday evening, the 23d, when it was announced on
television that they had a photograph of Lee Oswald holding two papers.
I looked at this pile of mail waiting for him which consisted of these
two newspapers, the Militant and the Worker, and I threw them away.
Mr. JENNER. You threw them away?
Mrs. PAINE. Without opening them.
Mr. JENNER. Why did you throw them away?
Mrs. PAINE. I was pleased to throw away anything I could. I just didn't
want it.
Mr. JENNER. Well, my question or query, and I think expression of
surprise, is activated by what I am about to ask you as to whether you
might call that to the attention of the FBI?
Mrs. PAINE. Oh, I am sure they knew.
Mr. JENNER. How are you sure they knew?
Mrs. PAINE. Because mail stopped coming on the spot, nothing came after
the assassination, I was certain it was still coming to some place.
Mr. JENNER. But this was almost instantaneously after you heard a
broadcast that a photograph of him had been found in which he had been
holding up the Militant.
But you immediately went to see if he had that mail and there was a
copy of the Militant and you threw it away?
Mrs. PAINE. Why not?
Mr. JENNER. Well, it occurred to me you might have called the FBI's
attention to the fact that it had come to the house. But you didn't in
any event?
Mrs. PAINE. No; I didn't.
Mr. JENNER. Did you report it to the FBI in any of these interviews you
had subsequently with them, or did they ask? It is two questions, if
you will answer both.
Mrs. PAINE. If so, it was quite recently.
Mr. JENNER. When did the other papers begin to arrive? Did I interrupt
you before you had a chance to complete your answer to my question?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. The papers different from the Worker and the Militant, when
did they begin to arrive at your home?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, they began to arrive, I would say, some time after
October 4th. That is, of course, my judgment. That is a rationalization.
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