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. To the best of your present recollection are the statements
and the testimony you gave, you have given so far, before the
Commission consistent with statements you have given to the FBI, to
Secret Service, to magazine reporters, editors, to anyone?
Mrs. PAINE. The statements I have given here are fully consistent with
anything I have said before except that the statement here has been
much fuller than any single previous statement.
Mr. JENNER. And you have testified to matters and things before the
Commission about which, which you did not relate or even had occasion
to relate in your mind, at least, to FBI agents, to Secret Service
agents and to the others that you have identified in general terms?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Paine, you and I had the opportunity, you afforded me
the privilege of speaking with you before your testimony commenced,
before the Commission. And also I think the first day of your testimony
you were gracious enough to return here to the Commission room and we
spent several hours talking?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. As a matter of fact, we left around 12:30, a quarter of one
in the morning, did we not?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes, that is right, we did.
Mr. JENNER. Now, recalling back to those periods of conferences
with me, do you have any feeling or notion whatsoever that any of
your testimony before the Commission was in any degree whatsoever,
inconsistent with anything you related to me?
Mrs. PAINE. Oh, no; I don't think so, not in any way.
Mr. JENNER. Not in any way. Do you have any feeling whatsoever that
during the course of my conferences with you, outside this Commission,
that I influenced or sought to shape your testimony in any respect?
Mrs. PAINE. No. Clearly I felt no influence from you.
Mr. JENNER. All of the statements that you related to me were free and
voluntary on your part, and not given under any coercion, light or
heavy, as the case might be, on my part.
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Mr. Chairman, there are some additional matters we wish
to examine the witness about and Representative Ford has given me a
rather long list of questions he asked me to cover. He regretted that
was necessary because of his enforced absence, and Mrs. Paine has
agreed that she would be available in the morning, and I may examine
her by way of deposition before a reporter under oath, and with that
understanding of the Commission, of you, Mr. Chairman, I would at this
moment as far as the staff is concerned, close the formal testimony
of Mrs. Paine before the Commission, with advice to you, sir, that
tomorrow morning I will cover additional matters by way of deposition.
Senator COOPER. As I understand the matters you will go into by
deposition will not be any new evidence in the sense of substance but
more to----
Mr. JENNER. I can tell you what they are, it will be her background,
some of which she has now given in regard to her study of the Russian
language.
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