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
Senator COOPER. Just for the record, have you entered into any kind of
business transaction by which you would be paid for a story about this
assassination?
Mrs. PAINE. I will not be paid for any story I write, and I am certain
now I don't want to write any such story. I have, however, worked with
Miss Jessamyn West, who is an author for an article which will appear
in Time and Red Book magazine, or I expect it will. She is writing
that, she talked to me.
Mr. JENNER. She approached you on that article?
Mrs. PAINE. No one approached me in that article. Was already decided
before I was asked. But that is----
Mr. JENNER. Who decided it?
Mrs. PAINE. I had implied that I would be willing to do this, but not
to anyone I thought was making an offer. This is aside.
Mr. JENNER. This was an offer to help the subject of the interview
being interviewed?
Mrs. PAINE. All I really should say in clarification here is that there
was bad communication between Red Book, Miss West and myself, and she
was under the impression that I had agreed to do this before she had
in fact been contacted, but then the fact of Red Book and Miss West
thinking that this was something I had agreed to I then did agree to do
it.
(Discussion off the record.)
Senator COOPER. Back on the record.
Have you been paid or promised any monetary consideration for any
article that you might write or you might assist someone else in
writing about your experiences connected with the Oswalds?
Mrs. PAINE. The complete answer to that would be that I received a $300
advance from Look magazine for helping in the writing of that article
which will not appear, and that I have been told I will receive $500
from Red Book magazine for helping Miss West in writing that, and if
you want, I will tell you what I think about what I want to do with
this money but perhaps that is not pertinent.
Senator COOPER. If you want to?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, I plan to give it away.
Mr. JENNER. You mean give it to charity?
Mrs. PAINE. To charity.
Senator COOPER. That is all I have.
Mr. JENNER. You have referred to a Look magazine article in the
preparation of which you have assisted. I have marked as Commission
Exhibit No. 460 a document which I received from Mr. George Harris,
after you had authorized me to call him and ask for it.
Would you glance through that and verify that that is the article in
the final form?
You have examined Commission Exhibit 460. Is that the Look article to
which you have made reference in your testimony here this afternoon?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And that article, however, is not one to be published?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Did you look over that article in this final form and
approve it as to text and statements made in it?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; although I don't think the final draft had been done
or final approval given before it was decided that it would not be used.
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