(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine)
Mr. Jenner.
And is that likewise true of your brother and your sister, you have a close relation with your folks?
Mrs. Paine.
I think I have the closest relation to my mother, and possibly my brother and sister-in-law, who are near in Ohio, are closer to my father, and I just can't say as to my sister's relationship, meaning I don't know.
Mr. Jenner.
The relationships between yourself, your brother, your sister your mother and your father, you are compatible? You are interested in each other's activities?
Mrs. Paine.
That is correct.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you exchange correspondence?
Mrs. Paine.
We do, and photographs of the children.
Mr. Jenner.
And you have a lively interest in what each is doing, and they in you?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And that has always been true, has it not?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And do you exchange your troubles and your interests with each other?
Mrs. Paine.
When we visit. We are, none of us, terribly good letterwriters.
Mr. Jenner.
From what I have seen I would take exception. I think You are too modest. There has been a good deal of letterwriting.
Mrs. Paine.
There has been a good deal of correspondence over the years; yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And at least until recently, I don't know if you still do it, you were inclined to retain the originals of that correspondence and also copies of your letters, were you not?
Mrs. Paine.
For a goodly portion of the correspondence; yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, I have, which I will mark only for identification, three file cases of correspondence of your themes or writings in college. You might be better able to describe what is in these boxes than I in the way of general summary. Would you do so?
Mrs. Paine.
It also includes information helpful to me in recreation leadership, games, something of songs. It includes a list of the people to whom I sent birth announcements, things of that nature.
Mr. Jenner.
It covers a span of years going back to your college days?
Mrs. Paine.
And a few papers prior to college.
Mr. Jenner.
I have marked these boxes for identification numbers 457, 458, and 459. During my meeting with you Wednesday morning, I exhibited the contents of those boxes to you, and are the materials in the boxes other than material which is printed or is obviously from some other source that which purports to be in your handwriting, actually in your handwriting?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And those pieces of correspondence which purport to be letters from your mother, your father, your brother, and your sister are likewise the originals of those letters?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And the copies of letters which purport to be letters from you to your mother, father, sister, and brother, and in some instances others are copies of letters that you dispatched?
Mrs. Paine.
That is right.
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. Jenner.
Back on the record, please.
We asked you yesterday if you loaned any money to Marina or to Lee Oswald, and your answer was in the negative.
Mrs. Paine.
That is right.
Mr. Jenner.
We asked you if you had given any money to either of them, and your answer was in the negative, that is, cash.
Mrs. Paine.
I gave no cash.
Mr. Jenner.
You gave no cash to either. What do you know about expenditures by Lee Oswald for such items as bus fare from Dallas to Irving and from Irving back to Dallas while looking for employment?
Mrs. Paine.
I recall taking him to the bus station once and picking him up
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