(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine Resumed)
Mr. Jenner.
All right, we will not bother with that in the record.
Mrs. Paine, you recall your testimony with respect to what I called the Mexico note.
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
I forget the Commission exhibit number, but that will identify it. It is a note you found one Sunday morning.
Mrs. Paine.
That's right--having already noticed it but not having read it the previous day.
Mr. Jenner.
And, is this the secretary to which you made reference, the desk secretary--the piece of furniture from which you have obtained the wrapping paper, the sticky paper, and the string I latterly described?
Mrs. Paine.
No; it is not.
Mr. Jenner.
Where is that desk secretary located?
Mrs. Paine.
That desk secretary is in the living room.
Mr. Jenner.
Is the desk secretary in the position now as it was on that Sunday morning?
Mrs. Paine.
No; it is not.
Mr. Jenner.
Would you locate in your living room where that desk secretary was, if it is not here?
Mrs. Paine.
It was in the middle of the space between the the middle of the north wall of the living room.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, the north wall of the living room presently has a sofa or a couch?
Mrs. Paine.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
I take it, therefore, that sofa or couch was not in that position?
Mrs. Paine.
That sofa has exchanged places with the small desk secretary.
Mr. Jenner.
And the desk secretary is now on the east wall of your living room; is that correct?
Mrs. Paine.
That's correct.
Mr. Jenner.
Please tell me where the television set was on the afternoon of the day--on the afternoon of November the 22d when the police called at your home?
Mrs. Paine.
It was then where it is now.
Mr. Jenner.
And it is now located against the south wall of the living room between the picture window facing on Fifth Street and the doorway entering into your home?
Mrs. Paine.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, you testified as I recall, that you and Marina were sitting on the sofa looking at television. Where was the sofa located at that time?
Mrs. Paine.
On the 22d, the sofa was where it is now, as is true of all the other furniture in the room.
Mr. Jenner.
So, that, therefore, I conclude that from the time on the Sunday morning that you looked at the Mexico note and made a copy of it and November 22, you had rearranged your furniture?
Mrs. Paine.
I rearranged it on the evening of the 10th of November--that same day that I read the note.
Mr. Jenner.
That was a Sunday?
Mrs. Paine.
That was.
Mr. Jenner.
And Lee Oswald and your husband, Michael, assisted you?
Mrs. Paine.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
As I recall your testimony was that before they began to move the furniture at your request you saw the Mexico note on top of the secretary and you put it in one of the drawers of the secretary?
Mrs. Paine.
I opened the flip front and put it in there.
Mr. Jenner.
Consequently, on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, when you were looking at television, you and Marina were facing out--facing toward Fifth Street?
Mrs. Paine.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Were the drapes on your picture window which I see on the south wall, drawn back?
Mrs. Paine.
They were not closed.
Mr. Jenner.
They were not closed?
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