April 1963
Marina Stay in Irving
Paine invited Marina Oswald and her daughter to stay at her Irving home while Lee Oswald went to New Orleans seeking employment.
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Paine invited Marina Oswald and her daughter to stay at her Irving home while Lee Oswald went to New Orleans seeking employment.
Marina and her child lived with Paine for a little over two weeks while Oswald sought work in New Orleans.
Paine and Marina Oswald corresponded while the Oswalds lived in New Orleans, discussing Marina's family circumstances and marital difficulties.
During their summer correspondence, Paine urged Marina to return to Irving and live with her because of continuing difficulties with Lee Oswald.
Paine's station wagon carried the Oswald family's possessions from New Orleans to Texas when Marina returned to live in Irving.
Paine testified that she did not know a rifle was among the Oswald possessions stored in her garage after the move from New Orleans.
Paine returned to Irving with Marina Oswald and her child on September 24, 1963.
Paine learned Oswald's Dallas telephone number after he rented a room on North Beckley Avenue, although she did not initially know his exact address.
Marina Oswald and her children lived at Paine's home on West Fifth Street while Lee Oswald rented rooms in Dallas.
Lee Oswald spent weekends with Marina and the children at Paine's Irving home while living near his job in Dallas during the week.
Marina later testifies that Oswald returned disappointed and discouraged because his effort to reach Cuba had failed.
When Oswald appeared at the Paine home on October 4, he told Paine that he had been unsuccessful in finding work elsewhere.
Linnie Mae Randle told Paine that the Texas School Book Depository might need additional order fillers because Randle's brother had recently been hired there.
During coffee with neighbors on October 14, Paine discussed Oswald's unemployment while Marina Oswald was present.
When Oswald telephoned that evening, Paine told him that Roy Truly had agreed to interview him at the Texas School Book Depository.
Paine telephoned the Texas School Book Depository and spoke with superintendent Roy Truly about possible employment for Oswald.
Marina continued living with Paine through the birth of her second daughter on October 20 and remained there afterward.
Hosty conducted a pretext inquiry near 2515 West Fifth Street in Irving to establish where Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald were staying.
Hosty's October 30 inquiry established that Marina Oswald was living with Ruth Paine in Irving.
Hosty learned that Lee Harvey Oswald visited Marina at the Paine residence but was not living there during the working week.
Hosty gave Ruth Paine his name and telephone number and asked her to contact him if she learned where Oswald was living in Dallas.
Paine told the FBI that Oswald worked at the Texas School Book Depository and that he visited his family in Irving on weekends.
FBI agent James Hosty interviewed Paine on November 1 about Oswald's activities after his return from the Soviet Union.
Ruth Paine later gave Oswald the slip containing Hosty's name and telephone number, information that subsequently appeared in Oswald's address book.
During the early November FBI interviews, Paine did not provide Oswald's exact Dallas address, which she testified she did not then know.
During Hosty's November 5 visit, Marina Oswald noted the license number of his FBI automobile and later gave it to her husband.
Hosty interviewed Paine again on November 5 while continuing the FBI inquiry into Oswald.
The draft letter was the first information Paine encountered indicating that Oswald had visited Mexico City and contacted the Soviet diplomatic mission there.
Paine discovered a draft of Oswald's letter to the Soviet Embassy on November 10 that referred to his recent visit to Mexico City.
Oswald spent the evening of November 21 at the Paine home, attempted to reconcile with Marina, watched television, and retired around 9 p.m.
At about 9 p.m. on November 21, Paine went into the garage to paint children's blocks and noticed that the garage light was already on.
Paine testified that she was certain she had not left the garage light on after dinner on the evening before the assassination.
Oswald unexpectedly returned to the Paine home on Thursday, November 21, rather than making his customary Friday trip to Irving.
After learning that Kennedy had been shot, Paine told Marina that the shooting had occurred from the building where Lee Oswald worked.
Linnie Mae Randle saw Oswald approaching Frazier's car on November 22 carrying a long brown paper package.
Oswald left the Paine residence at about 7:15 a.m. on November 22, 1963, before Marina or Ruth Paine saw him leave.
Paine told investigators that most of the Oswald family's possessions were stored in her garage.
Police officers arrived at Paine's Irving home at about 3 p.m. on November 22 to search for evidence connected with Oswald.
Paine translated an investigator's question asking Marina whether Oswald owned a rifle, after initially saying she herself knew of no rifle.
Provides testimony about Marina Oswald living at her home and Lee Harvey Oswald's visits before the assassination.
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