Mrs. Paine. "And generally added a needed masculine flavor. From a poor first impression I have come to like him. We saw the doctor at Parkland Hospital last Friday and all seems very healthy" and this refers to Marina. "It appears that charges will be geared to their ability to pay."
Representative Boggs. Were you——
Mrs. Paine. May I go on?
Representative Boggs. Yes; surely. Finish.
Mrs. Paine. This was an intervening section where he was the most human that I saw him, and, of course, it has been followed by my anger with him, and all the feeling that most of us have about his act. But it seems to me important, very important, to the record that we face the fact that this man was not only human but a rather ordinary one in many respects, and who appeared ordinary.
If we think that this was a man such as we might never meet, a great aberration from the normal, someone who would stand out in a crowd as unusual, then we don't know this man, we have no means of recognizing such a person again in advance of a crime such as he committed.
The important thing, I feel, and the only protection we have is to realize how human he was though he added to it this sudden and great violence beyond——
Representative Boggs. You have no doubt about the fact that he assassinated President Kennedy?
Mrs. Paine. I have no present doubt.
Representative Boggs. Do you have any reason to believe he was associated with anyone else in this act or it was part of a conspiracy?