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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. III - Page 104« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine Resumed)

Mr. Jenner.
The reason I call that to your attention, Mrs. Paine, it still does not stimulate your recollection.
Mrs. Paine.
No.
Mr. Jenner.
Any differently than before. You did not furnish the license number.
Mrs. Paine.
I certainly did not. To the best of my recollection I did not put down the address either.
Mr. Jenner.
Now during the course of that interview of November 5th, did you not say to Agent Hosty that Lee had visited at your home November 2 and 3?
Mrs. Paine.
It is entirely possible, likely.
Mr. Jenner.
And in this connection I am at liberty to report to you that Agent Hosty's report is that you did advise him that Oswald had visited at your home on November 2 and November 3. Does that serve to refresh your recollection that you did so advise him?
Mrs. Paine.
I don't recall that.
Mr. Jenner.
Now did you express an opinion to Agent Hosty that Oswald was "an illogical person?"
Mrs. Paine.
Yes, I did, in answer to his question was this a mental problem, as I have just described to you.
Mr. Jenner.
Yes; that is all right. And did you also say to Agent Hosty that Oswald himself had "Admitted being a Trotskyite Communist."
Mrs. Paine.
Oh, I doubt seriously I said Trotskyite Communist. I would think Leninist Communist, but I am not certain.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you remember making a remark of similar import?
Mrs. Paine.
Reference to Trotsky surprises me. I have come since the assassination to wonder if he had Trotskyite views. I have become interested in what such views are since the assassination.
Mr. Jenner.
To the best of your recollection you don't recall making that comment?
Mrs. Paine.
I wouldn't think that I had the knowledge by which to make such a statement even.
Mr. Jenner.
Now after this rationalization you have made, Mrs. Paine, it is your recollection that you did not make such a comment?
Mrs. Paine.
I can't recall. What was the second item that I told Hosty he had been out on the second and third? I am just trying to clarify here.
Mr. Jenner.
You had told him that Lee Oswald had been at your home November 2 and 3, that you told him that Lee Oswald was an illogical person?
Mrs. Paine.
That is it.
Mr. Jenner.
And third, that you told him that Oswald had admitted being a Trotskyite Communist.
Mrs. Paine.
I may have said that. I don't recall.
Mr. Jenner.
You may have said the latter.
Mrs. Paine.
I don't recall, that is right.
Mr. Jenner.
It is possible that you did say it?
Mrs. Paine.
It is possible. I am surprised, however, by the word at that point.
Mr. Jenner.
Now do you recall a telephone interview or call by Agent Hosty on the 27th of January 1964? Perhaps I had better put it this way to you.

Do you recall subsequent telephone calls after the assassination that you received from Agent Hosty, that you did receive such telephone calls?
Mrs. Paine.
I did, and visits also, at the house.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you recall he called you on the 27th of January 1964 and that he inquired whether you had given Lee Oswald the license number of his automobile when he had been at your home? You stated that you had not.
Mrs. Paine.
That is right.

I would have thought that was a face to face interview but I don't recall.
Mr. Jenner.
But you also told Agent Hosty on that occasion, "However, this license number could have easily been observed by Marina Oswald since her bedroom is located only a short distance from the street where this car would have been parked."
Mrs. Paine.
I doubt I said "easily."
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