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. 22, going on 23, that is right.
Mr. JENNER. 22 going on 23. Was this in the summer time?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Vacation period?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. I see. By the way, Mrs. Paine, you had been to England, had
you not, in some activity of the Friends Society back in 1952?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. That was what meeting did you attend, and as a delegate of
what?
Mrs. PAINE. I was selected as a delegate of the Lake Erie Association
which is the larger group to which my meeting in Columbus belonged.
Mr. JENNER. Your Quaker meeting?
Mrs. PAINE. My Quaker meeting. To go as a delegate to the Friends world
conference held at Oxford, England, in the summer of 1952. I also
attended a young Friends conference held in Reading, England, just
before the larger conference. Shall I return now to the conference at
Quaker Haven in 1955?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. PAINE. I felt a calling in Friends terminology at that conference.
Mr. JENNER. An impulse, a desire, is that what you mean, a pulling?
Mrs. PAINE. More than that, that God asked of me that I study language,
and I can't say that it was specifically said what language. This was
at the time that plans first began for encouraging an exchange of
young people between the Soviet Union and the United States, and I
became active with the committee planning that, and from that planning
there was an exchange, three Soviet young people came to this country
and four young Quakers went to the Soviet Union, and I was very much
impressed with the dearth of people in this country who could speak
Russian. Here was a need for communication with people we had to live
with, although we disagreed with them, certainly disagreed with the
government, and the first elements of communication, the language, was
not available among most young people, and even among older people in
the country. My letter of June 18, 1959, marked Commission Exhibit
No. 459-1 contains a statement of my motivation to study Russian. So
it was this really that started me upon a course of study in Russian.
Then once started, I was more propelled by my interest in the language
itself. Shall I describe what training I have had?
Mr. JENNER. Well, please. I want to cover something else before that. I
offer Commission Exhibit No. 459-1 in evidence.
The CHAIRMAN. It is received.
Mr. JENNER. Was there a movement also in this connection which you are
now describing of a pen pal communication between young people here in
America and young people in Russia?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have anything to do with that?
Mrs. PAINE. There was a subcommittee of this Young Friends Committee of
North America which was called East-West Contact Committee.
Mr. JENNER. Were you the leader of that committee?
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