(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine Resumed)
Mr. Jenner.
knowledge, while Marina was living with you in the fall of 1963, just social visit, go out and make a social visit?
Mrs. Paine.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
I meant to include whether either together as a couple or separately.
Mrs. Paine.
I recall no such visit.
Mr. Jenner.
I think your testimony was when Lee Oswald came home on the weekends, from what you have described he remained on the premises?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
With the possible exception of one instance when he went off and bought some groceries or am I wrong about that exception?
Mrs. Paine.
He went with my children to buy some popsicles while I was teaching a student, so I was not at home that time.
Mr. Jenner.
All right.
We have a report, Mrs. Paine, and you might help us with it on this subject, of a barber in your community, who recounts to the FBI that in his opinion Lee Harvey Oswald or what he thinks a gentleman who was that man, came to his shop reasonably regularly and had a haircut on Saturday, on Saturdays, and accompanying him was what he judged to be a 14-year-old boy. Do you recall Lee Oswald ever obtaining a haircut over any weekend while he was at your home?
Mrs. Paine.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
To the best of your recollection, subject to his being off the premises while you were away shopping, it is your present firm recollection he never left the premises once he arrived, save this one instance that you knew of when he went to get popsicles?
Mrs. Paine.
Of course, I was away during that instance.
Mr. Jenner.
You were?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
But you anticipated?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes. Now, the morning of the 11th of November I was not home from something before 9 o'clock until about 2 that afternoon. I don't know what transpired during that time.
Mr. Jenner.
Were there other occasions when you were off ministering to your children, that is taking them to the dentist or something of that nature, on a Saturday or to church on Sunday or to the local park on Sunday, that Lee Oswald may have been, that is periods of time when you would not have known whether he was on or off your premises?
Mrs. Paine.
I can think only of grocery shopping which would have been an hour to an hour and a half period, and the two times that I can recall in the Saturday afternoon, on a Saturday afternoon that I went to Dallas to teach one Russian student a lesson. I can't think of any other spaces of time, hours that I was away.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, this gentleman also says--
Mrs. Paine.
Except the one I have just mentioned, of course, the one of November 11.
Mr. Jenner.
He also says that the man he thinks was Lee Harvey Oswald not only regularly came to his shop on Friday evenings or Saturday mornings for a haircut, but that he occasionally drove a station wagon.
Do you know of any occasion to your certain knowledge that Lee drove your station wagon other than the one occasion you have already related?
Mrs. Paine.
Absolutely none.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you know whether Lee Oswald subscribed to any newspapers?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes; I do.
Mr. Jenner.
What newspapers, excuse me, did he or did he not subscribe?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes. They came to my door. They sat around the house until the weekend when he arrived.
Mr. Jenner.
Tell us what newspapers those were?
Mrs. Paine.
I noticed a paper which I was told was from Minsk.
Mr. Jenner.
Was it in Russian?
Mrs. Paine.
In Russian.
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