Mr. Mccloy.

Since we are inquiring under our mandate into the background and the possible motives of the assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, we will question you regarding your association with Mr. Oswald and try to glean from you any other facts that may bear upon the assassination or its motivation.
I believe you have been furnished with a copy of the executive order under which we are operating as well as the Congressional resolution?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Mccloy.

Now if you will please stand, I will swear you in.

Mrs. Paine.

I would like to affirm.

Mr. Mccloy.

Do you solemnly affirm that the evidence you will give in this investigation will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; I do.

Mr. Mccloy.

Will you state your full name for the record and your address?

Mrs. Paine.

I am Ruth Hyde Paine. I live at 2515 West Fifth Street, in Irving, Tex.

Mr. Mccloy.

Mr. Jenner is going to conduct the examination.

Mr. Jenner.

Your maiden name?

Mrs. Paine.

Is Hyde.

Mr. Jenner.

Ruth Avery Hyde.

Mrs. Paine.

Right.

Mr. Jenner.

You are wife of Michael Ralph Paine?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And you were born September 3, 1932?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

You are almost 34 years old.

Mrs. Paine.

Almost 32. I will be 32 in September.

Mr. Jenner.

Pretty bad arithmetic. Just a little bit of your background, Mrs. Paine, very little. Your mother and father are living?

Mrs. Paine.

That is right.

Mr. Jenner.

And your mother is an Unitarian Minister ordained in the Unitarian Church at the moment?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; she is.

Mr. Jenner.

And received her degree in theology last summer I believe, is that correct?

Mrs. Paine.

No, she has completed her work for a Bachelor of Divinity Degree from Oberlin College and she will receive it in the spring. They don't give them in mid-year. She completed just the first of February.

Mr. Jenner.

You yourself are a college graduate?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Antioch College?

Mrs. Paine.

Yellow Springs.

Mr. Jenner.

Yellow Springs, Ohio?

Mrs. Paine.

Right.

Mr. Jenner.

You have a brother and sister.

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And your mother, your father, yourself, your brother, and your sister are your entire family.

Mrs. Paine.

My immediate family.

Mr. Jenner.

Your brother is a graduate of Antioch also, he and your sister. Are they older than you?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes, they are.

Mr. Jenner.

Which is the elder of the two?

Mrs. Paine.

My brother is the oldest.

Mr. Jenner.

And your brother is a professional man, is he?

Mrs. Paine.

He is a doctor, general practitioner.

Mr. Jenner.

A general physician, and he practices in Yellow Springs, Ohio?

Mrs. Paine.

That is right.

Mr. Jenner.

Would you tell us where Yellow Springs is?

Mrs. Paine.

It is about 60 miles south and west from Columbus, Ohio, the