His Russian was poor. His vocabulary was large, his grammar never was good.
Senator COOPER. You said that he had, I believe, had the initiative to go to Russia, not as a tourist but as for reasons that he had developed himself, and that he came back when he made up his mind to come and was able to bring his wife.
You knew he moved around rather quickly, didn't you? He was in New Orleans--

Mrs. Paine.

In this country?
Senator COOPER. Yes.

Mrs. Paine.

No, I knew he had been in Fort Worth and had come to Dallas to seek work and then losing work had gone back to New Orleans and then back to Dallas.
Senator COOPER. What made you willing to have this man, you have said, this very curious man, from all you have described about him, to have him in your house?

Mrs. Paine.

He was Marina's husband and I like her, and I, as I have described, was both lonely and interested in learning the Russian language. I would have been happy had he never come out, indeed happier had he not come out on the weekends.
But they were not separated as a married couple nor contemplating such separation, and I didn't feel that this- it was appropriate for him to have to stay away. I did not ask that.
Senator COOPER. Prior to the time that Marina left your home the day of the assassination, wasn't it?

Mrs. Paine.

She left the next day.
Senator COOPER. The next day.
Had you and Marina ever had any disputes or quarrels between yourselves?

Mrs. Paine.

I have referred to just one time when she in a sense was taking me to task on the matter of whose property their address was, I just mentioned that, that is the only time I recall.

Mr. Jenner.

That is the incident in which you--

Mrs. Paine.

Following the November 5th meeting with Mr. Hosty.

Mr. Jenner.

Mr. Hosty.

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.
Senator COOPER. You had said that, I believe you said, prior to the assassination you considered Lee Oswald as being violent or dangerous?

Mrs. Paine.

Well, now I have said that the thought crossed my mind once in relation to myself.
Senator COOPER. What caused that?

Mrs. Paine.

That he might be violent, because I thought he might resent my stepping in to do for his wife what he was not doing.
Senator COOPER. What made you think he would be violent about it if he wasn't caring about taking care of her?

Mrs. Paine.

Well, I wanted to satisfy myself, and I did then. The thought crossed my mind before I went to New Orleans for the second time as I have referred to it in a conversation with Mr. Rainey, before I went to New Orleans and then seeing him and changing my opinion some about him, I felt that he would not be violent or angry with me for this offer, and then proceeded with it, and this is the only--
Senator COOPER. I can understand why a person might be angry about something. But what about him led you to believe that he might be violent?

Mrs. Paine.

There was nothing that I could put my finger on. On the contrary my general impression was not of a man who would break out in sudden marked violence. He argued with his wife, and was distinctly unpleasant with her.
Senator COOPER. I believe you said the other day in answer to a question by Congressman Boggs that you held the opinion now that he did fire the rifle at the President.

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; I believe that is so but I don't know.

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