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Commission that she thought Lee Oswald worked in the Book Depository
Warehouse two blocks from the assassination scene. (III H 34-36)
If Marina's testimony is accurate, Ruth Paine has some explaining
to do. Ironically, Mary Suratt , who owned the ;tavern where
John Wilkes Booth plotted Lincoln's assassination, became a suspect
as an accomplice after having made a similar statement and run some
erroands for Booth. (Eisenchimal, Otto, Lincoln's Assassination,
Illinois State Historical Journal; Vol: 43, Autmn 1950, pp. 204-220)
0
But Ruth Paine ran more than errans for Oswald. Oswald's wife
stayed in the Paine house in Irving, Texas, and he went there on
weekends His rifle was allegeddly stored in their garage. (W-15)
3
Ruth Paine drove Marina Oswald the 500 miles to New Orleans in May,
of
1963, and then transported Marina and all the Oswald's belonging
back to Irving, Texas in September of the same year. (W-14) If
we seem suspicious of Paine's generosity, it is because after the
assassination, she failed to get Lee Harvey Oswald legal assistance
which he had requested of her. Mrs. Paine not only failed to get
a
lawyer, bu compounded this failure by neglecting to advise Ostald
of her failure to obtain a lawyer, thus placing him in great peril
and leaving him ignorant of this peril. (3 H 89)
(D
Most interesting of all is the fact that Ruth Paine got Oswal d
his job at the Depositiory Building. It seems an incredible coint
cidence that she placed only one phone cal to get Oswald a job,
and that phone call. was to the Book Depository (W-14) Further, Mrs.
Paine Spoke Russian and had corresponded with persons living in
the Soviet Union for a number of years. (W-285) This correspondence
(9)
did not interfere with her husband's security clearance which is
further discussed. It is astonishing that Ruth Paine was never
H
treated with suspicion by either the llas police or the
federal intelligence agencies.
Michael Paine, Mrs. Paine's husband, was not treated withisus-
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