Mr. Jenner.

Whenever this doesn't include Lee Harvey Oswald would you be good enough to tell us?

Mrs. Paine.

When he was not present?

Mr. Jenner.

That is right.

Mrs. Paine.

My recollection is that he was present most of the weekend. He went out to buy groceries, came in with a cheery call to his two girls, saying, "Yabutchski," which means girls, the Russian word for girls, as he came in the door. It was more like Harvey than I had seen him before. He remembered this time. I saw him reading a pocketbook.

Mr. Jenner.

The Commission is interested in his readings. To the best of your ability to recall, tell us. You noticed it now, of course.

Mrs. Paine.

Yes. I don't recall the title of it. I do recall that I loaned him a pocketbook at one point. I can't even recall what it was about. But I might if I saw it.

Mr. Jenner.

Was it a book on any political subject?

Mrs. Paine.

No.

Representative Ford.

Was it an English book?

Mrs. Paine.

But it was in English, unless it was a parallel text of Russian-English short stories, something like that, I can't remember. It might have been Reid's Ten Days That Shook the World, or something like that, but I am not at all certain I would have thought he would have read that, anyway.

Representative Ford.

Was it a book that you recall having had with you that summer? Ten Days--

Mrs. Paine.

It is a book I should still own, and I don't recall for sure whether I have that one.

Representative Ford.

Ten Days That Shook the World?

Mrs. Paine.

I am very shaky in my memory. I had prepared a collection of books for the course in Russian at Saint Marks School, and they included history and literature and English.

Representative Ford.

But you were still anticipating teaching Russian at Saint Marks School in Irving?

Mrs. Paine.

That is right, and this was just part of a bibliography of things of interest that included some of the more historical texts from many points of view regarding Soviet life.

Representative Ford.

I interrupted you.

Mr. Jenner.

I was asking you to tell us in general what was done during those 2 days and 3 nights.

Mrs. Paine.

We went out to wash diapers at the local washateria, and stayed while they were done and went back.

Mr. Jenner.

You and Lee?

Mrs. Paine.

I don't think that he went. My recollection is that Marina and I went.

Mr. Jenner.

He remained home?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you visit with any of their in-laws?

Mrs. Paine.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

Did they visit while you were there?

Mrs. Paine.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

Did they come there?

Mrs. Paine.

No. I have already referred to a visit from Mrs. Kloepfer, with her two girls which must have been the day before we left or Monday.
No, Sunday, it must have been Sunday. It wasn't much time altogether, because Sunday was the day before we left.

Mr. Jenner.

Is Mrs. Kloepfer a native American?

Mrs. Paine.

I have no idea. She speaks natively.

Mr. Jenner.

But she does have a command of the Russian language?

Mrs. Paine.

Oh, no, no. Her daughter has had 1 year of Russian in college, and was much too shy to begin to say anything, thoroughly overwhelmed by meeting someone who really spoke.

Mr. Jenner.

I must have misinterpreted your testimony this morning.

Mrs. Paine.

Her daughter had visited in the Soviet Union just recently and had slides that she had taken that summer.