(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine)
Mrs. Paine.
get-together. I had no way of telephoning Marina. If the child got sick how would I tell her I am not coming. So I said could I have his telephone at work in order to reach them through him if I felt it necessary some time, and he wrote down for me the address and telephone number of the place where he worked. This was on the 2d of April.
Mr. Jenner.
And that, I will turn to that, if I might, and that will be Commission Exhibit 402, and we have a like photograph of the exhibit. Is all of that exhibit in your handwriting?
Mrs. Paine.
Well, I have just said he wrote down Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall.
Mr. Jenner.
There is one entry that is in his handwriting?
Mrs. Paine.
That is right.
Mr. Jenner.
Give us the letter page of that, will you?
Mrs. Paine.
The letter page, "O" for Oswald.
Mr. Jenner.
"O" for Oswald. The entry Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall was written by Mr. Oswald; all other entries on that page are in your handwriting; is that correct?
Mrs. Paine.
That is correct.
Mr. Jenner.
Are all other entries in the entire address book in your handwriting?
Mrs. Paine.
Did we go over it? What did I say?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes, we did this morning.
Mrs. Paine.
I would guess so. I don't recall. Did we say so this morning?
I will have to look it over again.
Mr. Jenner.
I am not permitted to testify, Mrs. Paine.
Mrs. Paine.
All right. You want me to look right now? I usually write the addresses down myself, so it would be quite unusual for someone else to.
Mr. Jenner.
Is this address book in the same condition now as it was when you gave it to the police?
Mrs. Paine.
I did not give it to the police, they took it, and I didn't know it was gone until later that day. It is in the same condition except it has been through the finger-printing process.
Mr. Jenner.
I am particularly interested--
Mrs. Paine.
Yes; it is all in my handwriting.
Mr. Jenner.
I am particularly interested in the entries on the page lettered "O," and I want to especially ask you whether that page is in the same condition now as it was when it was--
Mrs. Paine.
Yes; it is.
Mr. Dulles.
Could I ask the witness why there are certain lines half horizontal, half perpendicular there, certain of these?
Mrs. Paine.
It means it is an old address, no longer applicable.
Mr. Dulles.
I see.
Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Dulles, you were referring to the page lettered "O"?
Mr. Dulles.
That is correct; yes.
Mr. Jenner.
I had digressed or interrupted at that point because you, for the first time, made reference to an entry in your address book made by Mr. Oswald. Mr. Chairman, I offer in evidence the document identified as Exhibit 401.
Mr. Mccloy.
Where is that
Mr. Jenner.
402 rather. That is the address book.
Mr. Mccloy.
It may be admitted.
(Commission Exhibit No. 402 was received in evidence.)
Mr. Jenner.
And you were relating that you inquired as to how you could reach them if you had to reach them, and Mr. Lee Oswald wrote--
Mrs. Paine.
His work, the name of the company and the telephone number.
Mr. Jenner.
I take it they did not have a telephone?
Mrs. Paine.
They did not; no.
Mr. Jenner.
Did they ever have a telephone even when they were in New Orleans?
Mrs. Paine.
No; they did not.
Mr. Jenner.
When they came back again to Dallas, they did not?
Mrs. Paine.
They did not.
(At this point in the proceedings Senator Cooper left the Commission hearing room.)
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