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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IX - Page 401« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine Resumed)

Mrs. Paine.
No; I wasn't.
Mr. Jenner.
Were you thinking of them on the fifth?
Mrs. Paine.
No; I wasn't.
Mr. Jenner.
In any event, the automobile of Agent Hosty was parked, as you say, down the street and some few houses, at least a number of feet away from your home on the first, whereas, he parked it in front of your home as we have now noted on the fifth.
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
I notice you have a bathtub shower?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Was Lee Oswald in the habit of taking a shower?
Mrs. Paine.
He often took a shower when he arrived home from work on Friday, when he arrived here from work on a Friday afternoon and before dinner.
Mr. Jenner.
Did he take a shower, to your recollection, in the mornings when he was here?
Mrs. Paine.
I don't recall his having done so.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you have any recollection as to whether he took a shower in any event on the morning of November 22?
Mrs. Paine.
I have no recollection of him at all on the morning of November 22d, except an empty coffee cup.
Mr. Jenner.
I take it that, and I should say in the presence of yourself and Mr. Howlett, that the bathroom is located on the north side of the house in between the wall of the northeast bedroom and the back wall of the combination kitchen and dining room area.
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Am I correct?
Mrs. Paine.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
And when a shower is taken and you are in your bedroom where you were as I recall on November 22 in the morning, it makes a noise and it's quite noticeable to you, is it?
Mrs. Paine.
If I'm asleep, there are many things that are not noticeable to me. I do leave my room door open.
Mr. Jenner.
Well, apart from whether you were asleep, I just wanted to get that--whether you could hear it.
Mrs. Paine.
I would certainly hear it.
Mr. Jenner.
And does it make enough racket or noise so that it might well awaken you if it's turned on?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes; especially that close to morning.
Mr. Jenner.
And you were not awakened this morning by any shower?
Mrs. Paine.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you have a recollection as to whether you noticed, when you performed your own ablutions that morning as to whether the shower had been employed, that is, was the shower curtain moist or wet?
Mrs. Paine.
I made no notice such as that.
Mr. Jenner.
Is it likely that had the shower been used you would have noticed it?
Mrs. Paine.
No; I can't say as it is.
Mr. Jenner.
You had, I gather, no sense of his presence that morning and his leavetaking that morning at all until you arose and he was then gone?
Mrs. Paine.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
You heard no moving about on his part prior to your awakening?
Mrs. Paine.
No moving about on his part at all when I looked when I awoke.
(At this point Counsel Jenner and Agent Howlett took other measurements in the hallway of the Witness Paine.)
Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Howlett and I have measured the bathroom and it is 5 feet wide and 8 feet 8 inches long. The hallway running north and south at the entrance to the 2 bedrooms, using the wall instead of the jamb, 9 feet 6 inches long, and 3 feet 4 inches wide.
The living room, which faces on Fifth Street and is to the east of the garage wall and to the west of the hallway, running across to the 2 bedrooms which we have just measured, and which faces out onto Fifth Street, is 13 feet wide by
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