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. Let's proceed with the 21st. Did anything occur on the 21st
with respect to Lee Harvey Oswald, that is a Thursday?
Mrs. PAINE. I arrived home from grocery shopping around 5:30, and he
was on the front lawn. I was surprised to see him.
Mr. JENNER. You had no advance notice?
Mrs. PAINE. I had no advance notice and he had never before come
without asking whether he could.
Mr. JENNER. Never before had he come to your home in that form without
asking your permission to come?
Mrs. PAINE. Without asking permission; that is right.
Mr. JENNER. And he was out on the lawn as you drove up, on your lawn?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right. Playing with June and talking with Marina,
who was also out on the lawn.
Mr. JENNER. And you were, of course, surprised to see him?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you park your car in the driveway as usual?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you walk over to speak with him?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes, got out, very likely picked some groceries out of the
car and he very likely picked some up too, and this is I judge what may
have happened.
Mr. JENNER. Tell the Commission what was said between you and Lee
Oswald?
Mrs. PAINE. Between me and Lee Oswald?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; on that occasion.
Mrs. PAINE. That is not what I recall. I recall talking with Marina on
the side.
Mr. JENNER. First. Didn't you greet him?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; I greeted him.
Mr. JENNER. And then what did you do, walk in the house?
Mrs. PAINE. As we were walking in the house, and he must have preceded
because Marina and I spoke in private to one another, she apologized.
Mr. JENNER. Was Marina out on the lawn also?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes, sir. She apologized for his having come without
permission and I said that was all right, and we said either then or
later--I recall exchanging our opinion that this was a way of making up
the quarrel or as close as he could come to an apology for the fight on
the telephone, that his coming related to that, rather than anything
else.
Mr. JENNER. That was her reaction to his showing up uninvited and
unexpectedly on that particular afternoon, was it?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, it was rather my own, too.
Mr. JENNER. And it was your own?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And because of this incident of the telephone call and your
not being able to reach him, and the subsequent talk between Lee and
Marina in which there had been some anger expressed, you girls reached
the conclusion the afternoon of November 21 that he was home just to
see if he could make up with Marina?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Do I fairly state it?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What did you do that evening? Did you have occasion to note
what he did?
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