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. She said immediately he didn't like her trying to reach
him at the phone in his room at Dallas yesterday. That he was angry
with her for having tried to reach him. That he said he was using a
different name, and she said, "This isn't the first time I felt 22
fires," a Russian expression.
Mr. JENNER. This is something she said?
Mrs. PAINE. She said this. This is not the first time, but it was the
first time she had mentioned it to me.
Mr. JENNER. Give her exact words to me again.
Mrs. PAINE. When she felt 22 fires.
Mr. JENNER. That is the expression she used?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you understand what she meant or, if not, did you ask
for an explanation?
Mrs. PAINE. I did not ask for an explanation. I judged she meant,
she disagreed with his using a different name, but didn't feel like,
empowered to make him do otherwise or even perhaps ask to as a wife.
Mr. DULLES. How long a conversation was this. Was it----
Mrs. PAINE. Fairly short.
Mr. DULLES. Fairly short.
Mrs. PAINE. That is my recollection.
Representative FORD. What day of the month and what day of the week was
this?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, reconstructing it, I thought they succeeded each
other, the original call to the WH number on Monday and his call back
on Tuesday.
Representative FORD. When he called back it was late in the afternoon
or early evening?
Mrs. PAINE. It was the normal time for him to call back, early evening,
around 5:30.
Mr. JENNER. You have a definite impression she was angry when she hung
up?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Was she abrupt in her hanging up. Did she hang up on him?
Mrs. PAINE. No; she was angry, she was upset.
Mr. JENNER. And her explanation of her being upset was that he used the
assumed name?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, she didn't explain it as such, but she said he had
used it.
Mr. JENNER. He was angry with her because you had made the call?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Or she had made it through you?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did any further discussion take place between you and
Marina on that subject?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. The following day he did not call at the usual time.
Mr. JENNER. That would be the following day, the 20th?
Mrs. PAINE. I believe that was a Wednesday and that is how I slipped a
day.
Mr. JENNER. He didn't call at all on the succeeding day?
Mrs. PAINE. He didn't call at all, and she said to me as the time for
normally calling passed, "He thinks he is punishing me."
Mr. JENNER. For what?
Mrs. PAINE. For having been a bad wife, I would judge, for having done
something he didn't want her to do, the objection.
Mr. JENNER. To wit, the telephone call about which you have told us?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you and Marina go through a normal day that day, or was
there any other subject of discussion with respect to Lee Oswald on
that day?
Mrs. PAINE. Nothing I would specifically recall; no.
Mr. JENNER. This was the 20th of November, a Wednesday?
Mrs. PAINE. To the best of my recollection.
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