Mr. Jenner.

Whose writing is it?

Mrs. Paine.

It is Marina Oswald's writing.

Mr. Jenner.

You also handed me an envelope which is postmarked at Dallas on December 21, 1963, and there appears to be some handwriting on that. Are you familiar with that handwriting?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; I am.

Mr. Jenner.

Whose is that?

Mrs. Paine.

It is Marina Oswald's handwriting.

Mr. Jenner.

Here again as in the case of other envelopes, the envelope itself--- everything appearing on the face of the envelope is in English?

Mrs. Paine.

That is right.

Mr. Jenner.

Whereas, the note on the inside is in Russian?

Mrs. Paine.

That is right.

Mr. Jenner.

And this is as you testified---she was able to write English to the extent of addressing letters, cards, and envelopes?

Mrs. Paine.

That's right.

Mr. Jenner.

Miss Reporter, would you now mark the two exhibits I now hand you as Ruth Paine Exhibit Nos. 278, the card, and 278-A, the envelope?
(Instruments referred to marked by the reporter as Ruth Paine Exhibit Nos. 278 and 278-A, for identification.)

Mr. Jenner.

Mrs. Paine, is the card in the same condition now as it was except for the reporter's identification, when you received it?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; it is.

Mr. Jenner.

And was Ruth Paine Exhibit 278, the card enclosed in the envelope which has been identified as Ruth Paine Exhibit No. 278-A?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; it was so enclosed.

Mr. Jenner.

And except for having slit the envelope to remove its contents, is the envelope in the same condition now as it was when you received it?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And may we, as in the case of the other exhibits, retain the original and when I have photostated it we will return them to you?

Mrs. Paine.

That is fine.

Mr. Jenner.

I offer in evidence all of the exhibits which have been identified this evening.
Is there anything at all which has occurred to you that you desire to add, Mrs. Paine?

Mrs. Paine.

I can think of nothing else at this point.

Mr. Jenner.

I do want to ask you this--while you were translating the Christmas card message, Mr. Howlett and I measured--we went out in your back yard area, which is large and open, and we measured it and I recited the measurements in the record and the location of your large beautiful shade trees. I noted that there traverses from east to west your yard in the rear a clothesline.

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And I measured that as being located at 19 1/2 feet south of the back porch---of the back fence?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Is that the clothesline to which you made reference when you testified last week in Washington as to where Marina was on the midafternoon or early afternoon of November 22 when you went out to advise her that you had heard over the radio the name "Lee Oswald" in connection with events that day?

Mrs. Paine.

No; it was not that that I heard. I heard that a shot had been fired from the School Book Depository Building and this is what I told her.

Mr. Jenner.

And is that clothesline and those posts which support the clothesline and from which the line is stretched across the yard in the same position now as those posts were on that day?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; they are.

Mr. Jenner.

And on that occasion?

Mrs. Paine.

I can't remember whether as part of my testimony describing the evening of November 22, I said that Marina told me that when I reported to her the situation at the clothes line that the TV had announced that the shots which hit the President were fired from the School Book Depository.