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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. III - Page 91« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine Resumed)

Mr. Jenner.
You told them?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Did you tell them anything of the substance of the call?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes; that I was to get some things and I think they had the same information separately a different way from a car radio or something at the same time, which was to put some things together to take to her. I did then pack one or two, or even three of the suit cases we talked about yesterday with baby things.
Mr. Jenner.
Excuse me, Mrs. Paine. You keep referring to one or two or three. Were there as many as three?
Mrs. Paine.
I think there were as many as three, including a very small, you night say, cosmetic case, only more, not as fancy as that. This was in her room, and I recall looking in it and seeing a family album of photographs and thinking this had better be in her hands, and included that along with clothes. I sent a child's toy, some things that I thought might be helpful to her in keeping her children happy as well as the individual items she had asked for specifically.
Mr. Mccloy.
Did you sense any note of estrangement at all between you and Marina when she telephoned you
Mrs. Paine.
No; the situation was strained.
Mr. Mccloy.
Strained because she hadn't reappeared, you mean?
Mrs. Paine.
No; because her husband had been shot.
Mr. Mccloy.
No; I meant in your conversation with her was there any indication of any coolness between you?
Mrs. Paine.
No; none I detected.
Mr. Jenner.
Had you noticed any when you were in the police station?
Mrs. Paine.
Oh, no.
Mr. Jenner.
On the previous day?
Mrs. Paine.
Oh, no.
Mr. Jenner.
None at all. So that up to the moment of this telephone conversation and after you finished you had no feeling there was any estrangement, any coolness, any change in attitude on the part of Marina toward you as a person?
Mrs. Paine.
No.
Mr. Mccloy.
Have you felt any evidence of that since?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes; and that has several parts to it and I could easily go into it now.
Mr. Jenner.
I was going to ask her some general questions and Senator Cooper asked me if I would permit her just to go through the day as she has without, with a minimum of, interruptions so that you and he might, and Representative Ford, might ask some general questions before you left, so that is what I have done.
Mr. Mccloy.
Have you completed your report?
Mrs. Paine.
That brings us to the 24th so that all else is really quite post the assassination.
Mr. Mccloy.
There is one thing I would like to ask before I go, if I may, and that is your husband testified that several times he had moved this blanket when it was in the garage. Can you fix the date when he was in your house and working in the garage so that he was compelled to move the blanket? When did he come to
Mrs. Paine.
He normally came on Friday evening. He would sometimes come on a Sunday afternoon, and either of those times could have been times that he had worked in the garage.
Mr. Mccloy.
That was all through September, October?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes; September, October; yes.
Mr. Mccloy.
But when he had been working there he never mentioned to you any--about the existence of this blanket, package which he had been compelled to move?
Mrs. Paine.
No. That didn't come up until after the assassination.
Mr. Mccloy.
It didn't come up until after the assassination.
Mr. Jenner.
Excuse me, you are seeking to refresh your recollection from what document, please?
Mrs. Paine.
I am looking at a calendar to see if there is anyway that I can tell when Michael was in the house.
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