Mrs. Paine.

action, and I would have felt that necessary if I had known this. She may have felt that Lee would not make such an attempt again, and that there was therefore no need to bring it up. I don't know whether your accounts of what the FBI has put down of their conversations with me include one meeting with Bardwell Odum, right after the newspapers had indicated something of a shot at Walker, before there was any corroborative details, such as the content of a note.
I was very depressed by the feeling that here--not to me, but to someone, this man had shown that he was violent and dangerous, and the information had been so close to me and not available to me--and I deeply regretted that I had had no warning of this quality in him.
And I further went on to say that I felt that it was a moral failing on her part not to speak to someone about this, because I thought she would surely realize that this was an irrational and extremely dangerous act on his part--that he needed help and/or confinement.

Mr. Jenner.

What is your personal attitude towards the Castro regime?

Mrs. Paine.

I have very few opinions about it. I suspect that the press is correct, that it is used as a jumping off ground for people, for Communist deputies going to Central American countries, trying to stir up trouble. That I object to strenuously. That the people of Cuba had Castro as a leader is not of any particular offense to me. I do think that he has rather more popular support than his predecessor.

Mr. Jenner.

Batista?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes---which is not saying a great deal.

Mr. Jenner.

Well, I think Representative Ford might have had more in mind as to whether you share or do not share or have an aversion to what you understand to be the Castro regime.

Mrs. Paine.

I think the regime is clearly dictatorial, that it seeks to perpetuate itself, and to do so at all costs; and that I certainly object to.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, do you consider the Castro regime as you understand it, that it is liberal or reactionary?

Mrs. Paine.

I don't know as I can put a term on it.

Mr. Jenner.

Do you have any thoughts and assumptions on your part as to what Lee Oswald was doing after Marina returned with you from New Orleans? You have already testified that you thought from what he said about seeking employment in Houston and Philadelphia that he was engaged in that immediately following period in attempting to secure employment in Houston.

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Is that the extent of your impression as to that period--that is the period from the time you left on the 23d of September and the time he showed up without advance notice on the 4th of October?

Mrs. Paine.

It was my impression that he had been looking for work.

Mr. Jenner.

And you had no other impression?

Mrs. Paine.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

During the period that Marina lived with you, did you ordinarily arise at an early or a late hour? When did you ordinarily arise?

Mrs. Paine.

Are you asking did I arise earlier than she?

Mr. Jenner.

No. I am asking when you did. Then I will ask you when she did.

Mrs. Paine.

I usually got up around 7:30 or 8.

Mr. Jenner.

When did she arise?

Mrs. Paine.

A similar time. When the babies permitted, she would sleep a little later. She changed her schedule to fit ours rather more than her schedule would have been if it had been just the way she had done in her own apartment.

Mr. Jenner.

In her own apartment you think she would have arisen later or earlier?

Mrs. Paine.

She would have arisen later and let the baby, June, stay up later, and therefore be able to sleep later in the morning.

Mr. Jenner.

I see.

Mrs. Paine.

But while she was at my home, she endeavored to fit herself into the sleeping schedule of myself and my children.