Mr. Liebeler. And your wife was with the police officers further in?
Mr. Paine. Yes, I think she was.
Mr. Liebeler. Was Marina Oswald there?
Mr. Paine. Failure of recollection, I would say, yes. But it is a very fuzzy recollection.
Mr. Liebeler. Can you tell us where the blanket was found?
Mr. Paine. It doesn't really make sense as to why they would still leave the blanket there, and these things would have been discussed at that time, but I kind of remember a kind of silhouette situation, a police officer either lifted up or kicked this blanket, which was in exactly the same location that the rifle, the package had been, underneath the saw and somewhat in the sawdust. And I think he put it back there. He may have asked me at that time, "Did you know what was in this?"
Mr. Liebeler. Do you remember that?
Mr. Paine. And that is why I think they asked me, it may have been as early as that, whether it was a rifle, "Do you think it could have been a rifle?" I don't remember how it was posed, but I probably answered when it was suggested, it was a rifle, and there they suggested it was a rifle, because they had already learned from Marina that he had had a rifle, and it had been, perhaps, had learned it had been in that blanket.
Mr. Liebeler. Do you know they had previously asked Marina about that?
Mr. Paine. No; but I think—I'm just telling you my impressions here, very fuzzy impressions.