Mrs. Paine. No; I did not.
Mr. Jenner. And your acquaintance with her in the interim has been limited to what you have testified?
Mrs. Paine. That is right.
Mr. Jenner. And you are not working with Mrs. Martin in her campaign or crusade or whatever it may be?
Mrs. Paine. No; I answer any questions she has just as I do answer questions of newsmen or other people who wish to inquire about what I know.
Mr. Jenner. Would you please give me your impression of Lee Oswald's personality, what you think made him tick, any foibles of his, your overall impression now as you have it sitting there of Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mrs. Paine. My overall impression progressed through several stages.
Mr. Jenner. Why don't you give those. I think it would be helpful to us if you would. Start at the beginning.
Mrs. Paine. In the spring what I knew of him was that he wanted to send his wife away back to the Soviet Union, which she didn't want to do, that he would not permit her to learn English or certainly didn't encourage it. I knew that he had lost his job and looked unsuccessfully. I formed an initial negative opinion about him, on really very little personal contact. I saw him very briefly the evening of the 22d of February, the evening of the second of April, and the afternoon of the 20th of April, and again on the 24th of April and so as far as I remember that is virtually all of the contact I had had directly with him.
And this impression stayed with me throughout the summer and throughout my visits to various friends and family on my trip of August and September 1963, and I undoubtedly conveyed to the people I talked to during that time that impression, which I carried at that time.