Afternoon Session
TESTIMONY OF RUTH HYDE PAINE
The President's Commission reconvened at 2:20 p.m.
Mr. McCloy. Before I ask you to be sworn, Mrs. Paine. I will give you a little general indication of what our testimony is apt to cover.
We have heard that you and your husband made the acquaintance of the Oswalds somewhere during 1963, and that Mrs. Marina Oswald lived in your home from late September 1963, I believe, to the time of the assassination.
Since we are inquiring under our mandate into the background and the possible motives of the assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, we will question you regarding your association with Mr. Oswald and try to glean from you any other facts that may bear upon the assassination or its motivation.
I believe you have been furnished with a copy of the executive order under which we are operating as well as the Congressional resolution?
Mrs. Paine. Yes.
Mr. McCloy. Now if you will please stand, I will swear you.
Mrs. Paine. I would like to affirm.