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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. II - Page 453« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine)

Mr. Jenner.
Is your recollection sufficiently refreshed to state whether the meeting was a visit by you to her or she to you?
Mrs. Paine.
No; I don't recall.
Mr. Jenner.
Does it have a relation to the letter that you say that you prepared dated April 7, which is the day before?
Mrs. Paine.
I might have taken it that day, I don't know. Yes; it is entirely possible. I hadn't thought about it.
Mr. Jenner.
But anyhow my mentioning those two events together, does that refresh your recollection or stimulate it more specifically on the subject?
Mrs. Paine.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
It does not. You have no recollection beyond the fact that on April 8 you have an entry with the word "Marina." Is that written in Russian?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
The word "Marina" in Russian, it doesn't stimulate you in any respect, does not stimulate your recollection?
Representative Ford.
At the time of the dinner at your home on April 2, following that or during that time, do you recollect any discussion about General Walker between your husband and Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mrs. Paine.
No; I don't recollect any such discussion.
Representative Ford.
That night?
Mrs. Paine.
If there was any it would have had to have been in the living room while I was talking to Marina in Russian in the kitchen. I didn't hear any reference to it.
Representative Ford.
You didn't hear any discussion that evening between your husband and Lee Oswald about General Walker?
Mrs. Paine.
No.
Representative Ford.
Did your husband ever tell you subsequently of any such discussion?
Mrs. Paine.
I don't recall it. There was one reference, but that was later.
Representative Ford.
That was later. Do you recall when?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes. It would be the Friday after U.N. Day, October the 4th.
Representative Ford.
That was October 1963?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Representative Ford.
And this was April 2d?
Mrs. Paine.
1963.
Representative Ford.
1963.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you recall any discussion of General Walker at all with Marina or in the presence of Marina or with Lee Oswald or in his presence in your home or their home or even out in the parkway on the subject of General Walker up to April 11, 1963?
Mrs. Paine.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
None whatsoever?
Mrs. Paine.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
Any discussion between yourself and your husband on that day?
Mrs. Paine.
No; none that I recall.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you subscribe to a newspaper?
Mrs. Paine.
At that time I subscribed to the Irving local paper.
Mr. Jenner.
Is that an evening or a morning paper?
Mrs. Paine.
At that time it was a morning paper.
Mr. Jenner.
Morning paper. Do you have a recollection of being aware in the edition of April 11 of an attack on General Walker the night before?
Mrs. Paine.
It is more likely that I heard it on television. I think I must have heard it.
Mr. Jenner.
You have a television and a radio?
Mrs. Paine.
We get news from the television.
Mr. Jenner.
And you were aware of the attack on General Walker the evening of April 10. Did you see Marina Oswald on the 11th?
Mrs. Paine.
I can only guess so judging from these marks on my calendar.
Mr. Jenner.
We would like your very best recollection, please, Mrs. Paine?
Mrs. Paine.
I don't recall; I just don't recall.
Mr. Jenner.
You just don't have any present recollection that you did see her on the 11th or you didn't? You just have no---you are blank?
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